Developing a Theme

Focusing on Purity

Decorations

Make your banquet entirely white: decorations and food. If possible, use round tables for seating. Assign a specific lady or Sunday school class in your church to host (decorate) one table. They can use their creativity as long as everything is white, including the tablecloth, place settings, and center piece. Part of the fun is seeing all of the different tables. Have the coordinator of the banquet be sure to place a folded stand-up card on each table that says “Thank you. This table is hosted by _______________” to acknowledge the work that they did.

Since people are donating time and talent for the tables, you could also ask a few talented ladies in your church to donate one or two craft items each to give away as prizes.

Nametags

Nametags could be wooden craft hearts painted white with a safety pin glued to the back. Write ladies’ names on the front with a gold pen.

Refreshments

Recipe for white punch:

Two 2-liter bottles of ginger ale to one quart of pineapple ice cream. Put ice cream in bowl and carefully pour the ginger ale over it. Break up the ice cream as you go along, and it will foam up with pretty white foam on top.

Other white foods:

Mozzarella cheese, cream cheese desserts, white dips on white crackers

Focusing on Cleanliness

Decorations

Decorate the center of each table with a decorated cleaning bucket or basket. Put cute material inside and let it drape over the sides. Fill up the bucket with colorful cleaning supplies. Also include a good book about the heart like A Woman After God’s Own Heart or Keep a Quiet Heart. Finish it off with lots of curly ribbon and maybe balloons. These can be given away at the end of the night for prizes.

Nametags

Cut a tiny apron shape out of material and glue it to a card with ladies’ names on them.

Games

• Collect several cleaning slogans, and have participants try to match them with the correct product. (See below)
• Collect stories of how a cleaning product came into being, and try to match it with the correct product.

Devotional

Whenever it is time to clean out those messy cabinets or closets, we all know the 3-point rule. Have 3 boxes to help you organize: Keep, Give Away, and Throw Away. Try applying this to cleaning your heart as well!

Keep

*Some things should be kept private. Luke 2:19

*Learn to use discretion. James 3:2-12

*Be trustworthy.

Give Away:

*Love 1 Corinthians 13

*Encouragement 1 Thessalonians 5:11-13

*Hospitality Romans 12:13; 1 Peter 4:9

*Kindness James 3:13-18

*The gospel story Mark 16:15

Throw Away:

*Sin 1 John 1:9

*Hindrances (weights) Hebrews 12:1

*Stumbling blocks 1 Corinthians 8:9

Can you identify the slogan with its product?

1. Ajax
2. Bounty Towels
3. Brawny Towels
4. Calgon Soap
5. Dial Soap
6. DuPont
7. Fab Detergent
8. Irish Spring Soap
9. Ivory Soap
10. Johnson’s Baby Shampoo
11. Kleenex
12. Maytag
13. Mr. Clean
14. Mr. Bubble
15. Pantene
16. Palmolive
17. Right Guard
18. Secret
19. Tide

A. “She likes people, People like her, And people, Who like people, Like ___________”

B. “Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.”

C. “Don’t put a cold in your pocket.”

D. “Thirst pockets for spill relief”

E. “Better things for better living through chemistry.”

F. “Gets you so clean your mother won’t know you.”

G. “Stronger Than Dirt”

H. “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.”

I. “99 and 44/100% percent pure.”

J. “No more tears.”

K. “Our repairmen are the loneliest guys in town.”

L. “Take Me Away!”

M. “Will clean your whole house and everything that’s in it.”

N. “Keep that schoolgirl complexion.”

O. “Oh , I’m glad they put real borax in you.”

P. “The thicker, quicker, picker upper”

Q. “Anything less would be uncivilized.”

R. “Fresh and clean as a whistle.”

S. “ ________ gets the stains that others leave behind.”

Answers: 1-G, 2-B, 3-D, 4-L, 5-A, 6-E, 7-O, 8-R, 9-I, 10-J, 11-C, 12-K, 13-M, 14-F, 15-H, 16-N, 17-Q, 18-B, 19-S