Ignite Your Mission with Printed Apparel for Your Church

Spreading Awareness About Their Church 

Investing in branded apparel and merch for their churches has enabled Real Life Church to create better visibility within their local communities and amplify their core mission.
 

“We aim to create designs that will inspire conversations, enable our members to share their faith and invite others to join our church family.

By creating custom merchandise for our church,  Threadbird has allowed us to reach those in our local community who do not know the Gospel and who didn’t know about Real Life Church.”

- Lacy McCoy

Working with Threadbird’s team of designers, Real Life Church (RLC) had a vision to design apparel with messaging that would inspire curiosity and spark people’s interest in their church’s mission.
 

Their mission is simple: They wanted to create apparel that would give them better visibility within their local communities. These efforts were intended to engage with people who weren’t familiar with the Real Life Church or the pillars of their faith.
 

For instance, their inspirational design, ‘As It Is In Heaven,’ was created to match branded T-shirts for each of their three parishes in Clermont, Mt. Dora, and Orlando. Cohesive branding unifies their mission across their three campuses while distinguishing them from one another. 

Inspiring Conversation in the Community

Collaborating with Threadbird's team of designers, Real Life Church (RLC) strives to create apparel designs that can serve as simple yet effective reminders and conversation starters for church parishioners and nonparishers. For example, their inspirational design, 'Love like Jesus' is an encouraging reminder that effectively promotes the core values of RLC's faith.

“The part of our Merch that has improved the most is the quality. With our most recent line of merch, the biggest compliment we have received is how much they love the way it looks and feels.”

- Lacy McCoy

Real Life Church can naturally initiate meaningful conversations among church leaders, members, and the broader community by creating eye-catching apparel designs to spark those conversations. Having merch for parishioners to wear and represent RLC in their daily lives, in settings like the grocery store, schools, workplace, and other events, enables the church to reach a broader audience outside the immediate communities. In doing so, they hope their merch will attract new people and, ideally, bring in new parishioners.
 

The three parishes of Real Life Church wanted their merchandise ready and available to all parishioners. To achieve this, RLC parish decided to open a retail store within their church to sell its apparel. In doing so, it quickly saw massive success, as members and parishioners were eager to get their hands on some of its own.

Supporting Sustainable Growth 

Rooted in their spirit of giving back to the community, Real Life hosts annual mission trips for the church and various opportunities to volunteer and raise money for selected charities. Driven by their mission to serve others and "love like Jesus", RLC is passionate about all of their events that help them in spreading awareness about important causes that they believe in. In addition to these efforts, the RLC parishes have a youth group for young adults and several events throughout the year for families, church members, and even non-parishioners.