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Merry Christmas!

Here are a few Ideas and Instructions
to help you use the

Buttons & Car Sign artwork

Hi, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Thanks again for joining the grassroots efforts to help keep Christ--and CHRISTMAS--in Christmas.

EASY INSTRUCTIONS
If you haven't already, start with a visit to the Home Page.

Then download the artwork from this link (Detailed instructions below if you need them)

Print the artwork. Cut it out with scissors. Spray it with hairspray or clear spray paint if it's from an inkjet printer and likely to get wet.
You can use the 'pocket insert' either to hook over your shirt pocket or pants pocket or...use your imagination!
Wear your button everywhere you can...especially while shopping and ESPECIALLY while checking out.
Wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Tell people about the real meaning of Christmas.
You will be blessed. God promises to honor those who honor Him.

Please remember to visit the Bulletin Board and share your Christmas shopping experience--and check the Bulletin Boar to find or create Christmas Caroling opportunities! That's the short version...Want more? Ready to go Caroling? Want to help support this movement? Read on...

Wish people Merry Christmas even if they don't respond. Unconditionally. Remember I Corinthians 13 -- the Love Chapter! We have Faith, Hope and Love, let's prove it to those that NEED Jesus. We change the world one heart at a time. Jesus told Twelve Friends, and they each told two friends, and so on and so on...

Feel free to link to the HOME page--and to forward via email.

Prayer Request: Let's all pray for the Hope-less atheists and other bitter folks who are trying to steal America and outlaw Christ. While we must stand strong against them as a group, please remember that each one is an individual, fearfully and wonderfully made--and they need genuine, Christian friends.

Want to push the (Christmas Card) envelope?

Put Christmas Art on your envelopes!
Print the icon at the top of this page onto your Christmas Card envelopes! Instructions below. The icon is just the right size to use on your Christmas Cards and other December envelopes.

Another Idea:
Give a copy of the MERCHANT NOTICE in the Artwork to the store greeter or manager when you arrive. (optional)

Another way to help you emphasize how important this is:
As the clerk acknowledges you and begins to check out your order, you could greet them with pleasant smile, eye contact and a "Merry Christmas." If they do not respond with tolerance and respect for your deeply-held personal views and beliefs, you could sing (with a genuine smile!), "Please Wish Me A Merry Christmas."
If they fail to provide you, their Valued Customer, 100% Satisfaction, explain that this is very important to you as a customer. Ask for a Manager with the authority--and the courage--to wish you a Merry Christmas. Do it nicely, of course. Remember it's their private property--but they want YOUR business very badly. And they need Jesus even more than they need your money..

Poster-size the art!
Be creative! Perhaps you'll want to enlarge the artwork and use it to 'protest' intolerant stores.. But do it with a smile and do it legally and honorably!

If this helps you, encourages you--please pass it on.

A couple more ideas --

Does your family 'holiday' celebration seem shallow and hollow? You can bring hope and joy into your home! Start a meaningful family tradition and read the Christmas Story every year -- the source of hope and joy to millions. You might want to start at the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew, or at Luke 2.
Here is BibleGateway, a great searchable online Bible site with many versions available.

Make an annual tradition of singing, attending or at least listening to George Frederick Handel's MESSIAH - one of the most profound musical works of all time. You can do a Search using Dogpile or Teoma or Google or other search tools.

Detailed Instructions on how to print the mini-button at the top of the page onto your envelopes:
Getting your Christmas Cards out? Print the stamp-sized 'mini-button' at the top of this page on the FRONT of your envelopes and Christmas Cards! The little Christmas button at the top of this email is the perfect size to print onto your envelopes.

Just right-click and save on your desktop
then open a graphics program like Microsoft Paint, Adobe Photoshop or many other other graphics-capable programs.
open a new file,
import the artwork (click on the program's Help menu if needed) and then
print it.at the top center of the envelope or card.
Experiment with some sheets of scratch paper before trying to print on good envelopes.

Here is an official U.S. Postal Service template for guidelines. While this is for business-sized letters, if you put the 'mini-button' at the top center of the envelope or card, you should have no problem.
Minimum Card/Letter Size
And here is more information than you could ever want about envelopes!
Mailability General Standards

Detailed Instructions on how to download and print artwork
1. Right click on the download link
2. To Save the file to your desktop,
   - if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, left click on 'Save target as' and navigate to your Desktop, then Save.
   - if you are using Netscape, Firefox or Mozilla, left click on 'Save Link target as' and navigate to your Desktop, then Save.
3. After saving the file to your desktop, CLOSE your browser, your email program and any other open programs,
4. Double-click on the PDF file to open it,
5. Click on File then Print at the top left menu to print.

You may want to adjust your printer settings to "highest quality." Depending on the amount of memory in your computer, your printer need several minutes to print the entire page.

NOTE: Inkjet printer ink is water-based. If your 'button' gets wet, it could ruin clothing. You can spray both sides with hairspray or better yet, any type of clear spray paint--or put the button in a sandwich bag or cling-wrap in a pinch.   Best solution: If you have access to a color laser printer, use it instead of an inkjet printer.   You can also print the art using an inkjet printer, then take it to a copy store that has a color copier. Make a bunch of copies and share them!

Note: If it's not already installed on your computer, you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open and print the file.
Click on the 'Get Adobe Reader' icon on the left side of the page, download and install the software.