Step 1...
Placing the Order
Work with your account manager to place an order for the display, CDs, and brochures of your choice. If these arrive early, I recommend having any volunteers listen to the CDs in advance in order to be able to recommend them to other parishioners.
Step 2...
Bulletin Announcement
The weekend before the "kick-off weekend," place an insert in the bulletin. Here is an adaptable insert in which you just insert your titles and make copies to insert in your bulletins. Here is an adaptable insert for Canada.
In the future when you get new titles, I recommend adapting the flyer once again with your new titles and having another bulletin insert.
Step 3...
Pulpit Announcement
Give a 2 - 3 minute announcement for your first weekend's "kick off." This may be done by the account manager or by a parish volunteer who also is excited about the program. Here is an announcement to use or adapt.
You can also use this announcement for a later "relaunch."
Step 4...
Table in Gathering Space
Have a table in the entrance or gathering space next to the display and the CDs. It is great to have bundles available as well. If you have the kiosk with nine titles, you could have all nine bundled for a donation of $25. You could also have any 7 titles for a donation of $20. At this table the Lighthouse rep and/or a volunteer(s) can answer people's questions and also have parishioners sign up for the CD of the Month Club (CDMC). For details on the CDMC kick-off, see the box on the right.
After Your Start...
Ongoing Key Ideas
See ideas recommended for the ongoing success of your parish Lighthouse program, including a "CD of the Week" in the bulletin, priest promotion from the pulpit, the help of lay volunteers, and rotating titles.