Pockets

Churches have various ways of using Pockets in their children’s ministry. Many provide the magazine for children to take home to help the children in their spiritual formation throughout the week. Many use it in bags or packets provided for children to use during worship. Others use the magazine as supplemental Sunday-school curriculum or for Wednesday night programs or other activities. Some even have Pockets Clubs that organize their meetings around the contents of the magazine.

But you may not have thought of ways to use Pockets beyond your church to reach out to children and families in your community.

Here are some ideas:

• Place a few copies each month in the waiting room of your local hospital or health department or doctors’ or dentists’ offices. Attach a sticker to the front with information about your church.
• Offer to provide some copies to the after-school tutoring program at your church or another church in your area.
• Take copies to children who are in the hospital or at home sick.
• Donate copies to a food bank or shelter in your area.
• Take some along on outreach visits to families in your community as a way of letting adults know that your church values children.