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Everybody loves wearing a cool shirt, and what better way is there to promote your ministry then with t-shirts?

We print an annual t-shirt for our students and adult chaperones that attend our state youth convention in the fall. I budget for this shirt so that it is a free gift to them. We also print a shirt for our bi-annual trip to our international youth convention; again this is a gift for the students and adults who attend. Shirts do not have to be gifts, though; instead they can be designed, printed and sold.

I confess I am not an artist or a designer; I can barely draw stick figures. This is where I rely on the artists in my ministry. Sometimes I call on our resident artist, Maggie; other times I ask students to help; and still other times I simply host a design contest. I also confess that during my nineteen years I have had my share of bad t-shirts and designs; like the lime green soccer jerseys I had printed when my youth group was loaded with high school football players (we all know how much football players love soccer players, and then to ask them to wear a soccer jersey . . . What was I thinking?).

We take an annual snow skiing trip in January, however a shirt would be pointless on this trip, as it would be covered by our snow clothes. So one winter we partnered with a charity that knit us hats and sewed a label on them that read “My Hat Fed 50 Kids”. We purchased fifty hats for $10 each and wore them while on the slopes. Several of my kids continue to wear these hats every ski trip.