Pastors Appreciation Day
Creekwood Church
This is our 4th year to do a Pastor/Staff Appreciation Breakfast at my church, National Pastor Appreciation Day was October 13th this year. We did our Pastor/Staff Appreciation Breakfast on Monday, October 14th.
It's a day to say thank you for all that you do, it doesn't go unnoticed. Like most churches the staff gives a lot of themselves and not only do they meet deadlines every week but they support, love and comfort people even after hours.
I am blessed to be apart of my church for over 16 years. I see the behind the scenes scheduling, planning, prepping part of it and I see how they truly give of theirselves to help others.
I have a Life Group at church called, Creating Heartstrings- Random Acts of Kindness. We throughout the year do Random Acts in our community but once a year (4th year) we have done the Pastor/Appreciation Breakfast.
I pick a theme then I find gifts for the Women, we buy everyone the same thing like this year we got a bag with their initials on it then we each bought blankets to put inside. For the men we bought a nice cooler bag and put snacks inside.
It's something to say we appreciate all that you do.
This year I happened upon some great printable for tags and art prints on Etsy. Our church moved into our new location officially in September of this year. The church offices have been out there since 2018 or 2019, then covid happened so it delayed the build but it was finished totally in September. It's beautiful out there! I often still this today say, who left this place? There is 108 acres with a lake in view from every building, it's just beautiful out there. It had been someone's house which is now that house is the church offices.
Anyway for our Pastor/Staff Appreciation Day I send out things that we need like 19 blankets and people sign up to purchase one. I got the Ladies bags on Shein then the 13 Mens Coolers came from Amazon then people signed up to bring snacks for the men...you know beef Jerky, candy, protein bars, crackers and etc.
A couple of weeks before the actual day, I send out a sign up for the Breakfast from Breakfast Casseroles to butter and Jam. We all enjoy blessing our staff, this year we decided to have the tables to eat outside so I did a nature theme this year.
Here is this year's breakfast, gifts and decor
This is what the ladies gift’s looked like with the cute bag, bee tag and the great printable. We also had a table with black mats if they wanted to frame their picture.
Getting things ready, we used greenery from the bushes outside!
The picture of the view outside doesn’t do it justice and we didn’t take a picture of the bags for the men with the tags on them.
The items on the bench are for the part-timers who couldn’t be there.
This is our first year
This was our 1st Breakfast “ Thank you for Being the hands and feet of Jesus!
Some great food and yes those are homemade donut twist my friend Mitchy made!
A good friend of mine, Wendy painted these cards, she is so talented!
This is our 2nd year
This is our 2nd year, the Lord Bless you and Keep you and Make His face shine upon You!
I’m used my Cricut to make these….I edited their last name for the blog.
I have an embroidery machine and love to stitch out Scriptures!
See the pears, I’m always looking for things that look good but are not expensive!
We had some tags left over so we threw them on the table.
I love to gift wrap, one of my favorite things so we wrapped each gift! I love to make bows and have a ton of Ribbon, I bought a roll of black butcher paper on Amazon to wrap the gifts with.
This is our 3rd year
For the gifts we gave each one a coffee cup, candle that my friend, Joanie made and a journal for each.
We snagged the pumpkins from someone’ office and cut some greenery outside off some bushes. I wished we had covered the sink!
When you’re giving a gift for over 40 people, you have to get creative budget wise!
Our group is blessed with people who love to give and serve.
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