Last weekend marked the unofficial kick-off to National Disciple Now Season. Although there are still plenty of renegade churches holding DNow weekends in the fall, it seems that almost every church out there puts it on the calendar sometime between mid-January and early March. This reminds me that we at iGo Global have prepared a public service announcement for this year’s NDNS (National Disciple Now Season). Feel free to read this in your church house on the Sunday prior to your DNow.

A Public Service Announcement from your friends at iGo Global

We want to remind all residents to prepare for the upcoming Disciple Now by making plans to stay off the roads on the weekend, especially in small towns. The smaller the town the bigger the competition when it comes to the annual DNow Scavenger Hunt. You do not want to be on the roads, sidewalks, or in a nearby ditch when a sleep-deprived volunteer youth worker driving a Yukon XL loaded with sugar-hyped 8th grade girls screaming go faster comes down the street frantically searching for a mailman they can sing the Star Spangled Banner to for 50 points. Stay inside. Also, if you need snack food items from the store, you will need to plan ahead. Same goes for pizza orders. Thank you. And now back to your regularly scheduled blog post.

Disciple Now weekends are amazing times to press the pause button on the craziness of life and dig down deeper into God’s Word. At iGo, we love DNow weekends. We have been involved in speaking at many of them, and we have even helped connect churches with some of our college alums that can serve as small group leaders. But just recently, we received a unique request. It was so interesting and so helpful, we decided to share it with you. The email below is from Jamie Naramore, Minister to Students at FBC Harlingen, Texas. He wrote:

“We are looking at different shirt ideas for our Disciple Now weekend, but rather than having our own shirts made and the profits going to a printing company, we are wanting to purchase shirts with a different purpose and that actually goes towards something missional.  So, instead of getting our name and event and message plastered all over our shirts, we want to order shirts through someone like iGo who can benefit from our purchase for the sake of His name.  That being said, I need about 150 shirts in random sizes between $5-15 each.  Do you have any t-shirts in stock that could meet that quantity before January 15th?  And if so, how would I go about making such a large order?  I particularly like the “elephant” shirt and the “declare his name” shirt.”

What an amazing idea! Students who go to DNow get Tshirts (I think this is in some rulebook about DNow weekends from the 1980’s). Jamie just decided to bless iGo by ordering our shirts instead of creating his own this year. It is what we like to call a win/win/win. iGo wins in that it raised some money for our ministry. Jamie wins in that he doesn’t have to put together his own shirt and spend time getting it done. The students win in that they get a really cool DNow Tshirt that helps support missions.

So this is our way of throwing this out there to you. As a student minister reading this, would you like to borrow this idea yourself? We can make it happen. As a student reading this, would you consider sharing this idea with your student minister as a way to help make the planning process of DNow easier than ever? We aren’t in the T-shirt business, but we can definitely help your group get some great looking T-shirts, and your DNow T-shirt budget money will go straight towards training and mobilizing. Let us know if you would like to talk about this in detail.