Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
Press releases can be free publicity for your church as part of your marketing.Church press releases are remarkably simple to do once you understand some basic points and setup a distribution system for your church press release. How 1st PC Uses Press Releases I recently spoke with Richard … [Read more...]
Want to grow your church attendance by 20% this year?I once coached a church that set that as their goal. Is it realistic? Visitors are the key to growing your church. Without keeping visitors, your church will not grow, nor will it replace the members who drop out, move, or die.The key … [Read more...]
A reader contacted me: “Pastor, our small church needs help organizing a Friends and Family day for the end of August to launch our new season. Can you help us?”As we talked further on the phone, we kicked around a few ideas unique to their church, but developed some ideas that are useful to … [Read more...]
Can potential first time church visitors find out the information they need on your church website landing page?What do you think are some of the most common questions of your website visitor?Here is what I think (though I don't have data to prove it):Where is the church? What does … [Read more...]
Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn) In your research, have you found that there’s one specific reason that visitors come to church?The friendship factor.We’ve asked more than 50,000 people over the last 10 years why they came to church, … [Read more...]
This Easter, some people might want to visit your church.This Holy Week, some out of town guests may want to visit your special services for holy week.You don't know who they are.They don't know where they want to go.God has given these first time church visitors spiritual thirst … [Read more...]
For the last part of our series Coaching Congregational Evangelism, I want to share some very practical advice a church planter gave me. "Evangelism doesn't just happen. You've got to do it." I was asking him how he grew his church from scratch in a few months (I no longer remember the exact … [Read more...]
Sometimes I wonder if in the big rush to be "missional" that some churches forget the attractional side of their main event – the worship service on Sunday.But, for many churches, that Sunday event is not something that will be going away or be done away with. It's not an either or … [Read more...]
Pastors carry the torch of vision, and are usually the key public person of influence in a congregation.It's been observed that pastors are asked to cast vision for everything fromFinding volunteers for work parties or service projects, Recruiting volunteers for Children's … [Read more...]
I've been listening to some podcasts from various different churches in the United States as I exercise. (Read: 6 Steps to Get your sermons recorded again to see a cheap and easy way to make them available on line.)One key feature that I've observed in the podcast of these growing churches is … [Read more...]
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