Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
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...]
Every now and then I put up a set of links from stuff I've been reading that I have found interesting and noteworthy. There are often no themes, which reflects the randomness of my reading:Links from people I follow on Twitter. Links from my Google feed reader Shared Facebook … [Read more...]
Getting Church Visitor Cards Filled outBased on a survey that I've done on church greeters and hospitality issues, one of the biggest issues ask me ishow to get your first time church visitors to fill out a connection card. What is the best way to get church visitor contact … [Read more...]
In yesterday's article 2 Attitudes for Small Church Transformation, Ron Crandall's study pointed out how evangelism in the small church is rooted in relationships. "Small church approaches to evangelism need to be person centered." Larger churches may have lots of programs to help attract them … [Read more...]
"How can skillful pastors who long for the resurrection power of God to be manifest in their churches learn to patiently guide a congregation through all the necessary stages of change involved in a turn around?"Ron Crandall - Turnaround Churches and BeyondParticularly, what role does … [Read more...]
Want more on Assimilation of Visitors? Sticky Church is a website that contains lots of good resources. October 6-7 is a conference that you might want to attend: See: www.stickychurch.com … [Read more...]
I finished readingFusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church.This book is sure to be on the top of the list for Visitor Assimilation texts. Comparing a Ferrari to a Pinto Note: I read Beyond the First Visit: The Complete Guide to Connecting Guests to Your … [Read more...]
Stop Being a Friendly Church challenges the church with an interesting twist on hospitality (thanks to Tony Whitaker for highlighting this in the April Web Evangelism Bulletin). Essentialy, quit trying to be a "friendly church" and be a church "where you can make friends." There is a big … [Read more...]
What kind of impression do visitors get when they come into your church for the first time? Every church thinks it's friendly. But I and many others have experienced the fear factor of walking into an unknown place and knowing immediately that we don't fit and are not really … [Read more...]
Update: Read my review here: Fusion Visitor Assimilation. I think this is the best assimilation book available right now. I've not read Sticky Church, but that is next on the list.A new book has been released about turning Visitors into Members, also known as church visitor assimilation. … [Read more...]
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