As I cleaned out the outer rim of my closet this past week I came across one my summer camp t-shirts from years past. ( Way before the internet!) It brought tears to my eyes as I remembered God’s love and faithful promises to me. I smiled thinking about all the fun and friends that I made that week at camp. Yes, the t-shirt may have been worn, distressed and old but those memories will never fade. Can a t-shirt really do that? You betcha! How can we make t-shirts today that will be just as effective and bring up powerful memories for years to come. I started to think back to when I got the shirt.
Flashback....
It was the summer of 1990, my friends and I just enjoyed the… Read more »
How long have you been in the business? Since 1993 I started ImpactShirts when I was in college and working in your ministry. MinistryGear.com was launched in 2009.
What got you started in it? That is, what interested you? I was serving in youth ministry in the early 1990's and going to college to get my degree in graphic design. When the pastor at the time asked me to design a shirt for an upcoming waterski trip, I was hooked from that day forward. The next thing I knew my best friend Mike Millet were in business together and we were staying up late printing T-Shirts for all types of church events and local businesses in our area. You can read more here about the start of the business.
What are the goals of… Read more »
Great graphic design is not the most important thing, but it helps drastically when you are telling a story. The gospel story is the most important story there is. So we need to do all we can to make it great, that is where design comes in. The world uses great design all day long to tell it's story. Think about how well movie studios use graphics to advertise their upcoming releases with the imagery, fonts, icons and colors that reinforce their storyline. In comparison, church graphics often times come up short.
"If we are printing it, we'll gladly design anything for your church for free."
I have included these mockups we have done for "The Forge Youth Group" on the right so you can see to what… Read more »
Promote Your Church Website on Your Shirts: This is not directly about Church T-Shirts, but more specifically about why you should include your church website on shirts when possible. Not just T-shirts, but why not put your website on church building and signs and anything printed.
A church website may be one of the single greatest ways to explain what your church is about, what your church's core beliefs are, what ministries are available to people and when things are happening at your church. Does your site have a section for the primary ministries that operate at your church, Youth Ministry, Children's Ministry, Outreach, VBS, Summer Retreats, the church garage sale, and things like this, I bet it does. Obviously then, you want as many people from… Read more »
Crazy Youth Group T Shirts make us think of wild colors splashed all over, big, bold, flashy lettering with a great design that reflects the high energy of your youth group. Here are some of our favorite picks. Our design staff would be happy to customize combine or create any of these designs specifically for your crazy youth group shirt.
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Guessing t-shirt quantities can be scary, especially if this is your first time. It would be great if you knew ahead of time exactly who's attending, who gets a shirt and what size they need. But this is the real world and we don't have the info up front.
Don't worry. With a little thought, you can eliminate much of the guessing and ensure t-shirt order bliss.
Here's how it's done:
Start with the number of shirts. Do you need 25 shirts or 350 shirts? Depending on your situation you may know exactly how many shirts you need or you may need to make a good estimate. Lets say you decide on 42 shirts. That's good for now. On to step 2.
Check the quantity discounts. Ministry Gear has price breaks at 25, 50, 75,… Read more »
New Baptism Shirt Design Category: We are launching a new category for Baptism designs this year - we have had a few people ask us to create designs for them so we decided to run with it. I hope to be adding more designs as the year goes by. Often times we use your requests as starting points for new designs so if you don't see a baptism design that you like just let us know and one of our designers will get to work creating something new for you that other churches can benefit from as well! See all the designs here.
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This blog is designed to help team leaders find great mission trip ideas. A simple thing like a t-shirt can be used to raise money, improve awareness, and increase excitement.
New Mission Trip T-Shirts: These are 4 of our brand new Mission Trip Tee Designs. These are great for your mission team but they are good for fundraisers too because they are so darn nice! Take a look at some of our mission trip t-shirts.
Fundraisers for mission trips: We have a very exciting fundraising program. People from your church and community can order your mission trip shirts online, and once the fundraiser is over a check for your profit is mailed directly to your church so you can put those funds to work there they are needed most. Call… Read more »
Timothy 4 12 Poster.... Is 1 Timothy 4:12 your Favorite Bible verse? "Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity." If so you might be a youth pastor or childrens ministry worker. From time to time we like to create posters just for fun. This poster is of 1 Timothy 4:12, Since people request this verse on t-shirts more than any other. Feel free to use this however you like. If you can get use out of this I can make more! Or let me know if you would like a higher resolution image to use and I will be happy send that on over to you! Enjoy,… Read more »
Glitter Printing on your next Custom T-Shirt is a great way to spice up a design, especially for women's ministries, women's groups or girls bible studies. The process is basically the same as if we were printing your shirts with standard inks, except with the glitter ink there are tiny flakes of sparkly goodness suspended in clear gel ink so the final results are fantastic. Here is a photo I snapped of a recent order we did for high school cheer squad. This is a two color design with white and Glitter Gold ink. If you look closely you can see the white comes through parts of the clear gel showing the white ink below. When this gets in the sunlight it really sparkles! It's such a great… Read more »
