PONY EXPRESS
2ND YEAR PLAN
The Second Year Pony Express Stewardship Plan
The second year plan builds on the success and familiarity your congregation already has with the First year program. However, along with new artwork and letters there are several new additions.
Second Year PX Program Begins With Stewardship Education
Prior to the solicitation of estimates of giving, members are encouraged to engage in a study of Christian stewardship through their Sunday morning classes. The teachers' guides for the four week adult study and the three week youth study are both titled, Stewardship-Our Heritage. These studies affirm that "God is Creator of all and we are called to be God's stewards and managers of all life." Stewardship is explored both in the dimension of one's personal family and the church family, with an emphasis on teacher/student interaction and group participation. Elementary class teachers will use stewardship activities books to help their pupils consider the importance of caring for God's creation and their own lives. These books will later be taken home to be shared and discussed within the family circle.
Second Year PX Program Includes A Run Sunday Motivational Skit
If our church has a celebration worship style, then the delightful "Happy Trails" skit found in your Preview Kit Step #5 Envelope offers you a perfect opportunity to re-excite your members about the saddlebag relay AND remind them how it works. Let Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and companions entertain and educate your congregation during a worship interlude on the day your second year Run gets under way! If possible, use this helpful skit.
Second Year PX Uses The Phone For Follow Up Solicitation
Immediately following the saddlebag relay, you will have the opportunity to let a phone team contact relay"missed" families and others to invite them to make verbal giving estimates. This phone team will be led by the General Manager and the Finance Leader and will be composed of the Station Agents and General Manager Assistants (large churches only). Suggested conversation scripts, carefully written to fit the categories of persons you may with to phone for follow-up solicitation, are provided. Missed route families who are also missed by the phone team will receive a missed family letter that encloses their estimate cards and a return envelope.