Ignite Your Mission with Printed Apparel for Your Church
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Who is Real Life Church?
Threadbird has the pleasure of working with all types of companies, organizations and fellowships. One fellowship in particular that we’ve been collaborating with since 2018 is Real Life Church.
Based in Florida, Real Life Church is made up of “three campuses, one church” with locations in Orlando, Mt. Dora and Clermont, FL.
Merch for Your Church
Merchandise can be great for giveaways, fundraisers, events, or even uniforms. Real Life Church recognizes the multi-purpose benefits of merch in that it uses branded apparel for various teams and special events, such as welcome and volunteer teams, youth groups, mission trips, and baptism shirts.
Since partnering with Threadbird, Real Life Church has unleashed a world of possibilities. They have created a diverse range of apparel and merchandise across their three campuses, from screen printed t-shirts for church members and ministry staff, to hoodies, stickers, and gift bags. This variety allows them to promote their church mission and beliefs in exciting and innovative ways.
For Real Life Church, designing apparel wasn’t necessarily about bringing in revenue per se but rather about expanding its influence within new and existing communities. With this in mind, their initial goal was to reach those in their local Florida communities who do not know the Gospel or know about Real Life.
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.
'As It Is In Heaven' Tee
(SHGD / Plastisol Ink)
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.
'Love like Jesus' Tee
(Gildan 980 / Plastisol Ink)
Fostering Fellowship
Across their three locations, Real Life Church has a leadership team of twelve pastors for their churches. Given their size, they wanted to create apparel for their leaders to represent their prospective church. In a way, the apparel has strengthened the unity and belonging between RLC leaders, parishioners, and community members.
Having branded apparel for their three churches has created a bond between church members and leaders by giving them a sense of belonging and community. Wearing the church's merch in their daily lives also allows members to promote the RLC naturally.
Sharing the Love & Gospel
Real Life Church shares its values and beliefs by turning them into simple slogans to print on apparel. One of their popular designs is 'Crazy About You,' which we screen-printed on hoodies and long-sleeved t-shirts. Featured on the front is their church name, and on the back, in big, bold letters, it reads 'God's Crazy About You.'
“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.
At Threadbird, we genuinely love being a part of our customers' journeys, and for Real Life Church, theirs is just the beginning! Looking forward, their parishes have exciting ideas and plans for continued growth, and we can't wait to help them unfold. Whether you want to expand your outreach, raise awareness about your beliefs or cause, or engage with your community, creating custom merch can help you do so!
Interested in discovering what apparel and merch can do for your church? Click here to get in touch with our team, and we'll explore the creative possibilities together!