God has been developing this particular event in and through me for years. He started by teaching me the concepts which lead to the writing and release of the book, Marnie's Kitchen Shortcuts.

Unlike a typical women’s ministry event, where spiritual nourishment is woven into every aspect of the day, this event has been built to attract non-Christians. You will be offering door prizes, practical workshops with a 3-ring binder (that your planning team will create from ready-to-print templates in this set), recipe samples, and a main session with the speaker of your choice: a fun speaker who loves to cook and is also able to present the salvation message in a clear and inviting manner.

Location: If you feel that non-churched women would come into your church building for this event, host it there. However, if you have had a hard time attracting unsaved women to your meetings in the past, we strongly recommend a public facility for this outreach event; preferably the city auditorium, community center or a local high school.

Best Time: Saturday, 1 – 4 p.m.

About Publicity: Your specific target audience for this event will end up being mothers of young children. While all women will be welcome, and women of all ages will attend, the reality of life is that the young moms are those who are the most highly motivated to figure things out in the kitchen. They want to know how to save money on groceries, how to save time cooking, how to provide nutritious meals for their children and how to impress their family, friends and in-laws.

General Publicity: For this event you will want to provide posters and a copy-ready bulletin insert to every church within a 30 mile radius. In addition, locate and publicize the event to every MOPS group, Early Childhood Education Center, Daycare and public library. By canvassing ALL of the churches (including churches where the gospel is not taught), plus other places where non-Christian moms frequent, you will meet your objective of having non-Christians in attendance.

Childcare: To attract the most women of this age group, be sure to offer childcare. The time of day is ideal for moms to leave little ones at home for naps, however, since your target audience is women with young children, you need to offer the option of on-premise childcare.

Require Pre-Registration by Selling Tickets: Because you will be making notebooks and food samples, you will need an advance count of how many women will be attending this event. All publicity should include the words: “Buy Your Tickets NOW!” In order facilitate ticket purchases, find out where the community center usually offers its tickets for sale and use that service. In addition, provide a telephone number where people can order their tickets in advance, to be paid at the door. Also sell tickets at your own church and through any volunteers you can find at each church or organization you contact. To insure a high percentage of pre-registrations, verses last minute walk-ins, charge a much-higher price at-the-door. In other words, if the cost of the day is $18 in advance, it should be at least $25-30 at the door. A few gals will come at the last-minute, but it will be a manageable number.

Set-Up: The main area should be set-up auditorium style with seats facing the stage. The stage set-up is outlined in detail through out the script.

Decorations: You almost don’t need to worry about decorations for this one. It is promoted as a workshop-type event, therefore people will not have high expectations in the area of decorations. If you choose to decorate, you could go with the clock and hour glass theme from the posters. See the following note.

Door Prizes, Serving Tables & Centerpieces: You will want to visit local florist shops and/or craft stores until you find some who are willing to donate a center piece to be given away as a door prize. [You will need one centerpiece per 50 registrants.] You could also contact local cooking stores, Pampered Chef consultants and similar resources requesting items to be given as door prizes. The more the better! Of course, the donating store(s) should receive publicity in your program.

Refreshments: We recommend that you find volunteers from the hosting church to provide the specific samples required. Each volunteer, or set of volunteers, could take responsibility for one table – decorating it, making the samples, serving everything and cleaning it up. There should be one serving table for every 50 attendees.

Event Scripts – There are a total of four workshops, four skits, and six MC (Master of Ceremony) scripts. Everything that needs to be covered is written out in a clearly organized fashion. There is no guess work here.

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