Sharing how we've been blessed
We recently celebrated our third birthday and had the whole congregation write cards to the church and to each other regarding what God had done over the last three years in their lives. The responses were fantastic! I then segmented their paragraphs into shorter statements and made a couple of videos to show the church what was going on in the lives of the people all around them. People were in tears saying that they were so glad to know that other people felt the same way as they did. Sometimes it is hard to verbalize what is going on inside and this gave them a safe place to say that they were feeling blessed. By the end, there was a great sense of positivity.
We also noticed that the things that were blessing people were the kinds of things that we had been emphasizing. It was a great experience all around.