Maybe it’s just the timing, but it seems like Father’s Day gets less emphasis in most churches. If you have a great idea for this holiday, stop by this forum post and share what you know.
Share Your Father’s Day Ideas
Just leave a comment below and let me know what you’re planning. Do you have a special presentation for Fathers? Do you teach a special lesson? Does your pastor preach a father’s day sermon?
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For Father’s Day this year, instead of our children being downstairs doing the children’s program, the kids are going to be upstairs doing the majority of the grown-up service. They will be doing a presentation, with the school aged kids doing worship with the regular worship team, drama, teaching, etc. The preschoolers will go up on stage with age-appropriate participation, probably holding sings with the verse on them.
I’m really excited to see the children getting involved to this degree and I think dad’s and everyone else will enjoy it too!
Father Day , what is a day?
I call almighty God a father to me because he provide for me , you cannot be called father or husband if you cannot able to provide to those are under your responsability.
Our church is having an all church breakfast for the fathers on the day before. The woman are cooking and serving. Then on Sunday we will honor our fathers who have the most kids, grandkids, the oldest dad, the youngest dad.
On fathers day the children are going to do a presentation in songs, poems and sketch. The children will also present a card and rose to each father in church. I know parents especially fathers will be very happy to see the children do this.
This year our church is doing a “Car Show” on Father’s Day. There will be donut and juice and car viewing an hour before service. The service will be outside – during the service there will be praise and worship, the pastor will preach and the puppet team will do one song. At the end the children have made key chains for all of the fathers and men that come and they will hand them out. After the service, we will continue the car show with awards for the different cars. We will also be grilling hambergers and hotdogs for all who attend.
Hi
i was reading thro , what your church will be doing for Fathers Day , caught my eyes of “CAR SHOW” , please elaborate on this , how excatly will this be done. i think it is a very unusual idea.
look forward to hear from you.
God Bless
Roxy
This year for the first time we are having a “Father’s Day Family Breakfast” as a form of outreach. We are asking each family/individual to invite another family (unsaved) in an effort to help our church evangelize by hosting another invited family at their table. Our church fundraised to pay for catering service and is splitting the cost of each person with the members, roughly $7 each. This will enable our women to also enjoy themselves and sit/spend time with their guests instead of working in the kitchen like they always do. We will have door prizes, music and take advantage of the time to invite the guests to our upcoming VBS and other events. This will all take place on the 13th so we don’t hold up people who want to spend time with their families on Father’s Day weekend. On the Sunday of Father’s Day we always give a prize to the oldest/youngest father. Children always sing a special song.
Reader from Email said:
Aside from the usual Father’s Day sermon given by the Pastor, on Father’s Day, the wives will make up the choir that will sing in honor of the Fathers. Gift tokens will be given to their dads by the children while the moms are singing. Also, a visual presentation is being made—last year, we had an Indiana Jones theme with various photos of the dads in it. This year, we’re planning to have their heads superimposed on popular movie posters…maybe something like Dad goes to the Oscars?
This is the first year we are doing the “Car Show”. We are a small church but we are located in the middle of a large metroplex where their are numerous Car Clubs. Our pastor has contacted several antique car clubs inviting their members to participate in the Car Show. As I understand it, each person will pay a $10.oo fee when they register their car to be in the show. The proceeds from these fees will be donated to a Right to Life group in our area. Father’s Day the cars will congrugate in the parking lot and that is where our service will take place. I hope this extra information helps.
Can someone give me an idea on gifts for fathers.
Well they had some big drills on sale this week at K-mart. So for then men who have the most kids, the oldest dad, and the youngest dad and the newest dad will all recieve one. Roses or carnations are always good because dad’s like flowers to. Poem’s for dad’s are great also. Giving a New Bible is a great way to get them to read it more, and if signed by the Pastor alot of time it gives more meaning, because he took the time to write it out to the specific dad, that gets them.
I wish our church would do that – b/c I could use a new drill for having most # kids.
In my church,this year’s fathers’ day activities kicks up on the 15/06/09 to 21/06/09. Its going to be a long one week packed activities. The sunday 21/06/09 will be the D-day service. Everybody including children will worship together and fathers will show case what they can do best for the LORD.
Every arm of the will appreciate the fathers…
We had kids decorate a letter of “Happy Father’s Day” using each letter to represent another attribute of their dads, H-hard working, A-always laughing…We’ll have them come on stage in order and say out loud what they wrote. It should be cute…
Could you please finish the whole letters. It sounds to be a very good idea. I will appreciate it. God bless
Here are some of the better ones they came up with:(minus a=angry, y=yells a lot!)
H=hard-working
A=always laughing
P=persistent
P=party-er
Y=youthful
F=friend
A=attentive
T=thoughtful
H=hero
E=energetic
R=Red Sox lover(we live in MA!)
S=silly
D=dedicated
A=authentic
Y=yearns for Jesus
On Father’s Day my church is hosting a luncheon for the homeless.We’re so excited.
The youth will be introducing Bible School song for the program. The youth will all have compasses and will take them into the congregation to find a man who can teach them how to use it. The gift will be a compass key ring attached to a bookmark with Jeremiah 29:11, and the book “Know Your Bible” so you will know your direction and be able to direct those who follow you.
For Fathers Day at our church we rent out two movies and give to non church members And this year we rented out Imagine That and The Land of the Lost.What we do instaed of havign Church we invite friends and neighbors who do not go to church and invite them to a movie instead. It will be both on Sat and Sunday @ 10:00 AM. The cool thing is try to get people to take 2 steps closer to God. We babtised a guy today that has taken the 2 steps closer to God by giving him tickets last year to the movies. Since then he started coming to church and took God as his savoir and then followed up today by Babtism today down in the Laramie River. Just wanted to let you know what we are doing for Dad’s. The theme is to get a whole family to go not just the kids, and the kid’s love it because tehy can say Dad I am taking you out for Father’s Day. It get’s the whole family involved. We are giving 700 ticket’s out. Have a wonderful Week,,, Laura
This year. why can”t there be a day of healing for all Fathers and their children. Have a Father pray day altar prayer service or time where all hurt is forgiven.how your church would do this. Have all the father in the church come down to the altar for prayer. Pray for understanding , guidance, forgiveness and Hope.Have the Pastor pray and ask GOD for the healing of any hurts, misunderstaning or pain that these men might have.
Sister T. Knox
This year, our Sunday School children are doing a skit on the Prodigal Son.
They have been learning about this story as a build up to Father’s Day.
The emphasis will be on God our Father who forgives us unconditionally and loves us.
Father’s will be prayed for and each will be presented with a little gift.
Our church always chooses a special theme this year is “Classic the 50th “, men are to dress for that year. The children will be doing a special dance for the dads. They also have something surprising. Then of course comes the sermon for the day which is always awesome. Then they choose a dad for some special something, it could be anything. We always have a great time at our church because Jesus is always watching over and sitting right there with us. Even on Mothers day. We make each one feel special and they get a special gift. Praise God for all the Godly fathers out there leading their children to Christ. Amen
I am going to use my wife, son and daughter to assist me in sharing their view on the roll of a Father during the message.
We are going “nuts” over over dads.
The children made cards in the shape of p-nuts & during the welcome in the middle of service we will take stage to read a poem that ends with daddy I’m nuts for you. We partnered with the Road house in town to donate several pounds of p-nuts with free food coupoons, after we end the poem the children will walk the worship center & give a bag of p-nuts to every dad & grandfather. We are also giving a book to dads “the purpose driven life” in paperback.
Yesterday was Father’s Day and I used the poem that Tony listed “When Father read the book” and there are 4 paragraphes in this poem and I had one person that represented 4 different generations to read aloud to the congragation. Then the church always buys something small for the fathers and yesterday we had a small Blessings book with a pen and then I read a passage from the Bible from Matthew and then we asked all the Fathers to come before the church and before we had closing prayers for this day we took the time for people to stand up and if there is a special dad that they wanted to say something too, this was a great idea and when all was said and done, next year we might give out kleenex boxes instead, as we had great participation in this and you could feel God’s presence as words of love and compassion were exchanged with everyone. This was truly one of our greatest Fathers Days in a while. All visitors were also incouraged to go before the church so that they could also participate.
Wow. Thanks for sharing that sounds like a powerful way to encourage dads + glorify God.
Fathers Day in our church was so powerful as children read poems and bible verses. After that fathers were presented with a rose each and a piece of cake. Children presented the roses, on the roses some inspirational verses and jokes were stapled to the roses, it was really awesome. Children loved these and fathers were really touched by what the children presented. Thank you for the ideas I got from various subscribers, God richly bless you all.
Hi , please can you advice when is “Pastors APPRECIATION DAY”
Many thanks
God Bless
Roxy