Church website hides contact information

By EvangelismCoach • November 23, 2007

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I visited a church website this morning.

The church was announcing the start up of an evangelism group.

I like the idea — a group of people gathering regularly to encourage each other to do evangelism.

This is an idea that I suggest to help develop evangelism training lab-time in your congregation. Get a group of people together to meet and discuss their evangelism encounters during that week. We are trying to start an on-line version of this — the Evangelism Encounters Discussion Group.

Wanting more information about this group, I checked the website.

I looked for a contact us page or form (see my contact page).

I looked for a contact email for the group leader.

I looked for a contact us email.

In vain.

There was no way of contacting the church via email through their website. All I found was a phone number, but who wants to call the church the morning after Thanksgiving? Will I remember to revisit the site on Monday?

Closed Doors Keep People Out

To help prevent visitors from getting frustrated about your website, install a contact us form, or use a email generator to create a link to send an email. There are several ones out there.

It takes a little html knowledge, but still gets your email address out there.

I know this isn’t evangelism per se, but helping people make contact with your church can facilitate the process of evangelism.

Let me ask you this?

If a visitor came to your website, could they contact you via email or a webform?

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