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ConGRADulations! is the #1 Grad Gift for a reason. Below you’ll find the scoop on all the goodies we’ve crammed into ConGRADulations! -- all the music, all the videos, all the great artist pics and written words of wisdom, and much, much more.
interlínc has been creating a ConGRADulations! CD every year for right at 20 years. We’d love for you to check out the Story of ConGRADulations! and see how a simple request from a youthworker has turned into an effective ministry tool for over one million graduates!
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Sure, video has become important to a GRADs life, but music is still king in communicating deeply to their hearts. On the Music CD, you’ll find 19 grad-themed songs from today’s most popular Christian artists and #1 iTunes Band Owl City. The songs address the issues that grads are facing – the future, success, friends, life mission and purpose, and personal faith and will be the soundtrack for your grads’ real life “video.”
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The Gift Book is the new and improved for 2010! We have added even more great wisdom from Dr. Stephen Meyer of True U (on recognizing worldviews in college), John Bryson of College Ready/Family Life (on developing empowering friendships). Again, we have Dave Ramsey (on financial issues) and Francis Chan (on spiritual growth). It’s 48 pages of amazing graphics, words of wisdom, artist advice, grad encouragement, song lyrics, and much more. It’s got a page for you to write a personal greeting to your grads (if you want). It holds the Music CD and Media DVD in the front and back covers. It’s the amazing graphic Gift Book, and in addition to having powerful Biblical content, it is a LOT of fun!
Get Grad Now!Here is a sample of how the ConGRADulations! Class of 2010 Gift Book looks …there’s a four page section built around Press Play’s song “One Life”. The first page is the song lyrics, the second is a devotional based on the song, the third is words of wisdom to the grads, and on the fourth page are three student quotes that ties to the song’s message. Then there is a three page section built around Lecrae’s powerful rap “Don’t Waste Your Life” with the lyrics and a devotional. The cool Gift Book has a similar section for each of the songs on the Music CD.
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From the moment the Class of 2010 first opened their eyes, they’ve had a camcorder staring back at them. Birthdays, holidays, sports events, and vacations were all captured on video and in photographs. YouTube has taken this homemade video phenomenon to another level. What better way than the “video mode” for grads to share with each other?
The Media DVD is loaded with personal videos to the Class of 2010: from fellow classmates, from previous graduates, from the top names in Christian music, and from noted speakers and authors (Dr. Stephen Meyer, Dave Ramsey, Francis Chan, John Bryson). All are offering their best wishes and words of wisdom at this major life transition time. The Media DVD is chock -full of other resources: grad advice books, a year in review video, and a ton of ministry-based websites.
Years ago, a youth leader, knowing our unique function with youth ministry and Christian music, asked us a simple question. “My seniors never read the book that I give them for graduation. Couldn’t you guys make a CD that could have songs that would deal with the same topics that the grad books do?” And from a simple question a wonderful Grad gift was born. For 18 years we’ve worked to create a new CD (yeah - it was a cassette tape 18 years ago)... a new CD for the graduating class. We work hard to pick songs that will encourage, challenge and remind them how vital their relationship with God is as they stretch their wings.
But, probably the best reason for giving ConGRADulations is that seniors love getting GRAD and they actually use it. We love hearing stories from youth leaders - a former student comes home for Christmas as says, “hey, thanks for that GRAD CD! It’s been cool to listen to & I’ve dug the video and web resources”. We love how pleased youth leaders are knowing that they’ve given a gift that actually goes to college with their students. And we’ve worked hard to pack the DVD full of resources to keep grads from graduating from their faith.
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A large number of you have asked us to provide the option to add a Bible to your ConGRADulations! gift order. In 2005, we heard you and we created the GRAD “Add A HardBack Bible” PACK. Your response has been strong and clear...”Keep offering the Bible option and give us two Bibles as options.” We heard you again, and in 2010 we are offering the extremely popular paraphrase The Message //Remix and Jay Strack’s amazing Student Leadership Bible (NKJV) with your ConGRADulations! order. The pricing is amazing… you will get the $30 Bible and the $13 CD-DVD-Gift Book BOTH for right at $20!!! Also, since so many of liked it, you can add a Leather Bible to your ConGRADulations! order – get the $50 leather Maxwell Leadership Bible and ConGRADulations! for less than $30.
Eugene Peterson. 2272 pages. In this revised edition of Eugene Peterson's bestselling paraphrase, the reader-friendly text is still in paragraph form, but chapter and verse numbers have been added alongside. Includes book introductions and a "User's Guide" article.
Executive Editor Dr. Jay Strack. 1605 pages with hundreds of articles, notes, and study aids aimed at developing a balanced, healthy Christian worldview. Strong, Scripturally based understanding of kingdom life, servanthood, and God's planned destiny. Provides tools and resources to equip, empower, and enable grads to make a difference in their world and walk with confidence in their respective callings. Features the trusted NKJV translation. Retail price = $30
Key elements: “Leadership Realities”--articles offering practical resources teaching time management, relationship skills, goal setting, etc.., “Inside the Influencers”--applicational resources learned from the lives of key Biblical leaders, “Through The Grid”--Christian Worldview articles offering insight into the world from a Biblical perspective, “Leadership Issues”--articles on key topics facing young people from influential leaders, “24/7 Counselor”--a complete topic and subject index to Scripture and Impact content, “FAQ's” --answers to the top forty questions asked by students and youth leaders providing a defense of the Christian faith and belief structure, Introductions to the books of the Bible.
Executive Editor John Maxwell 1650 pages, bonded leather. Revised edition. Includes new laws of leadership The Law of Addition and The Law of the Picture, dozens of new articles, eight new Biblical teaching outlines. Also “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” – in-depth articles that reveal these laws as seen in the lives of Bible people; “21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader” -- insightful articles showing positive and negative examples of each quality; over 100 biographical profiles ; introductions to the books of the Bible outlining God’s role in the lives of influential men and women; 100’s of compelling short articles on mentoring and influence; thorough topical indexes for quick access to Scriptural passages and articles addressing leadership issues. Retail price = $50
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