Getting Your Voter Eligible Church Family Registered and Voting!
1. Review the Do’s and Don’ts page on this site.
2. Pastors, staff, board members or volunteers can go to Oregon Family Council to place an order for their excellent Oregon Christian Voter Guide for members of their church family, and www.ivoterguide.com for all states.
3. Determine the Voter Registration Deadline for your state.
4. Collect Voter Registration Cards from your county elections division.
5. Call your congregation in early September to fulfill their citizenship responsibility to VOTE in the November 3rd General Election. Stress the importance of America as a self-governing nation. Emphasize the importance of the Christian Vote and our goal that every voter eligible adult (including 17 year olds who will turn 18 before election day) be a voting citizen. Use the resources found at this site as seems best to you, particularly the myriad of quotes from the time of our Founding forward.
6. Place announcements in the Church bulletin in early September to prepare your members for the non-partisan Voter Registration Drive using relevant quotes, scripture and other helpful information found on this site. Cf. Bulletin Inserts.
7. Hold the pre-announced non-partisan Voter Registration Drive three consecutive Sundays prior to the early voting date. Call for 100% registration, each Sunday.
8. Place voter registration table(s) in the foyer of the church with voter registration cards. Call attention to the table(s) and registration deadline each Sunday from the pulpit. Assign a couple or group to be at the table(s) before and after each service to answer questions related to registration. If Voter guides are available, have them take the guides and registration card home to study if they desire.
9. Have voter registration cards at the church office from the time of the first announcement. Collect the signed cards either at the sign up tables on Sunday, or at the church office during the week and offer to take the cards to the county elections division as a service to your members.
10. Using the Scriptures and Quotes found on this Restore America site, emphasize the importance of self government, to the church, your community, and the future of the nation using the Scriptures and Quotes. You might refer them to Galatians 5, emphasizing that one of the gifts of the Spirit is self control/self government. You may wish to use/revolve several of the PowerPoint slides found at this site prior to the service(s) from Sunday to Sunday whether they vote absentee, mail in their ballots, or use drop boxes.
11. Place Christian Voter Guides in the foyer of the church and at the church office as soon as they are received and call attention to their availability from the pulpit and in the church bulletin. Encourage your congregation to take them home, and review them before they fill out their ballots, whether they vote absentee or mail in their ballots.
12. Call for 100% participation in the Election from the pulpit and in the bulletin— for at least two Sundays prior to the Election on November 3rd.
