When Associated Builders and Contractors engaged our team to brand and execute a strategy to fuel legislative momentum for PLA reforms, we steered the messaging to a somewhat more interesting argument toolbox – wildlife! In billboards, radio ads and an online animated short we applied the language of PETA and The Sierra Club to make our case for our own endangered species – non-union construction workers!

While The Endangered Jobs Protection Action still remains a step or two away from the governor’s signature, the issue has now been successfully recast and positioned. Traction at last. The intended audience – policy makers and the media are beginning to grasp the curious problem of PLA’s.

To Our Great Friends & Allies:

The entire staff at 23 North Front Street joins you in celebrating the birth of the King of Kings this Christmas! This season is unequaled in its significance in the history of the world, and on the present and eternal course of our own lives.

We’re mindful that so many of the people we serve are engaged in hard and difficult battles this winter. From extending full legal protection to the unborn to rescuing children from violent schools, your work is nearly impossible to stop to experience the amazing gift of Christmas.

But our prayer for all you weary warriors and workers in the field is expressed so beautifully in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Civil War poem I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day. When darkness and fatigue set in, failure encircles and the outcome of today’s fight seems hopeless, these six simple stanzas extend enthusiastic, joy-filled hope. Take a minute to read the following lines with fresh eyes or perhaps for the first time:

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play.
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of Peace on earth, good will to men.

I thought how as the day had come
The belfries of all Christendom
Had roll’d along th’ unbroken song
Of Peace on earth, good will to men.

And in despair, I bow’d my head:
“There is no peace on earth,” I said,
“For hate is strong and mocks the song,
Of Peace on earth, good will to men.”

Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound the carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearthstones of a continent,
And made forlorn, the households born
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep;
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With Peace on earth, good will to men.”

Mr. Longfellow was quite right. He is not dead nor doth He sleep. The consequential cause you’re fighting has a forgone conclusion. The result is in His hands. The goal for the solider is trust — to be faithful, unyielding, truehearted and dauntless in the struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit!

Once again, Merry Christmas to you and yours! It remains our honor to serve alongside you.

Gratefully,

Jeff Coleman
Churchill Strategies
23 North Front Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101

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- Stephen H. Balch
President, National Association of Scholars in
the Introduction to “Freedom’s College”

In this Churchill Strategies client profile, Administrative Director Lee Wishing, explains why Center for Vision & Values remains the soul of Grove City’s fight for religious, political and economic liberty.

Take a look at the design for this event taking place in New Orleans spearheaded by Focus on the Family, the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview and Pennsylvania Family Institute.

The logo needed to be stylish, edgy and communicate New Orleans.

The finished flyer was a hit!

I thought I’d give you a peek at this afternoon’s efforts — an event branding for our friends at Pittsburgh Middle East Institute with Henry Kissinger. It takes place this October at Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh.

Our team at Churchill is thankful for some wonderful neighborhood friendships – talented, giving people. In the shadow of the State Capitol, an overlooked contingent of entrepreneurs has survived city taxes and dry summers without the whirl of legislative foot traffic.

For over thirty years, Harrisburg legend Charlie Wise has served customers, from governors and television personalities to a stream of neighborhood regulars, with certain dignity and respect. The Walnut Street store he staffs by himself is stocked with dozens of styles of men’s hats, ties and an impressive inventory of Alden Shoes.

Charlie represents the classic principles of customer-centered service. In the era of generic mega-retailers, his shop stands as a refuge for the gentleman in search of unpretentious quality and predictable good cheer.

Once you’ve watched our tribute to Charlie Wise, we encourage you to meet him in person at 223 Walnut Street in downtown Harrisburg. If you let us know that you’re making the trip, we’ll pick up the tab on that first shine.

We think that once you’ve met our friend Charlie, you’ll be glad you did!