Does your church need an evangelism strategy for 2012?

What is your evangelism strategy for 2012?

Could you answer that question with some measurable goals?

Evangelism goals usually get the back burner in the face of all the other pressures that pastors and church leaders face. There is too much else that needs to be done.

And you’ve probably seen all the options on

how to do personal evangelism
how to welcome church visitors
how to motivate voluteers to do evangelism

It can be enough to leave one feel lost with where to start. Sometimes it’s easier to procrastinate rather than actually put a strategy in place.

No strategy means nothing gets done.

Your church doesn’t grow, unless people earn their way into your church’s social network.

You don’t have to drift

I’m glad you are thinking about our coaching program that I talked about in tonight’s webinar.

In fact, here is how one pastor put his need to me in conversation:

“Two years ago, we decided we wanted to be more involved with evangelism.
We began praying and reading, we had a conference . .. .but where do we go next?”

Teams have found it helpful to engage me in a 4 month team process, whether they have been to a evangelism conference or not.

Particularly if you

Lack personal experience
Feel uncomfortable
Don’t know where to start

Going through a 4 month team process with me can help you

Gain actual experience
Get a system to start implementation

During our coaching time, I discovered new ways of thinking about evangelism and Chris helped me get actually do some personal evangelism. He encouraged me with some reading assignments and I appreciated the debriefing times each week. He helped keep me accountable to carrying out my plans. — W. Mish, Danbury CT.

I found great value in the time that I spent with you. You helped me think through ways I avoided evangelism, even though I am a pastor. You really challenged me to step up to lead my church in this area. I appreciated your questions that made me think and your gentleness in leading me forward. I’m happy to recommend this personal coaching for pastors.
– M. Hunt, Pastor.

You covered things that are not in an ordinary evangelism training. From my background of evangelism training, your’s really filled in the gaps. You gave us a totally different view of evangelism that helped us be effective – 3 baptism in 6 months – after we spent thousands on direct mail with no results. Your approach is effective, though it takes dedication to make it work.
– P. Atteme, Associate Pastor

Topics:

I offer you one of two tracks for your hospitality or evangelism teams.

Here is an outline of topics we’ll discuss in your program. Practical steps to put these into place will be a part of each discussion.

What follows is a sample of topics in a plan that I follow, though we adapt it to your needs.

Sample Topic Schedule on Personal Evangelism Track:

Evangelism as a Journey

The missing ingredient to any evangelism training
What most evangelism trainings fail to cover
Gets the pressure off your scared church members
Reduce the fear of manipulation or embarrassment
How evangelism worked in your life so you can see it others.
Help you understand what obstacles are in the way of your friends and family.
How to prepare hearts for the gospel

Listening for Spiritual Thirst

Why 90% of evangelism training fails
Why most cold call evangelism fails
How do know what to listen for in your faith conversations
Why you don’t have to be an apologetics expert to talk with your friends.

Intentional Conversations without being obnoxious

8 types of conversational open doors.
Find the easy conversations and avoid the hard ones.
Easy softball questions to open doors.
How not to waste time with people who are not interested
How not to appear like a spiritual nut-job.

Development of practical skills.

How a simple list can focus your evangelistic attention.
How practice removes fear from your conversation
Storytelling without fear of loosing of your faith
How to overcome brain freeze when asked about your faith
How to avoid confusing answers to simple questions.

Sample Topic Schedule for Church Hospitality Track

What systems do you need to look at?

How to start from nowhere and make improvements in 30 days
Getting the eyes of a visitor to see what you are really missing
How hospitality overcomes many other shortcomings

What Church Visitors Want

Matching your programs to what church visitors like
Four types of church visitors and what you can do to reach them.
Four reasons visitors don’t return
Learn to think like a visitor to help them connect with your church

Organizing and Training your Teams

What kinds of teams you need to develop
Where to find motivated and excited volunteers
A year’s worth of training ideas to help you get started.

Street to Pew Review

See your building and processes to identify unnecessary barriers
Identify ways to remove unnecessary barriers.

Ready for Results?

Practical. Based on my life experiences teaching evangelism on two continents and in two languages.
Biblical - No compromising of Scripture to get butts on benches here.
Personal - You’ll work with me to plan and apply lessons to fit the personality of your church.
Affordable - A fraction of the cost of taking your ministry team to a conference or me to speak in person for a few days.
Church-Based - You learn right from home and apply each lesson immediately to your church.
Step-by-Step Help. – You get some great ideas and focus to apply right away.
Gospel-Centered – It’s all about Jesus, proclaiming the glorious good and making disciples.

How it works:

Time: 4 month process, one conference call each month, plus related team homework in between. I work with the coordinator between conference calls to discuss growth of your team.

Conference Call: Each month on scheduled days, we will have a 60-90 minute conference call. Members can be at their own home and must be able to log in via computer to a link that will be provided. Audio can be managed by telephone dial in, or via your computer sound system.

Homework: Between the sessions with me, your team will have some homework to do. I will work with the team leader 1-1 between meetings to help you keep your team on track with homework assignments. Each call will develop additional action steps for you to reflect or act on.

Personal Evangelism Weekly conversations: With the personal evangelism track, participants are expected to have one spiritual conversation each week with a non-believer and debrief it in your journal. We’ll debrief a few of them in our monthly conference call. This will get easier and more familiar as time goes on as I debrief these with you.

Cost:

As I mentioned in the webinar, the cost is $125 USD a month for the 4 months, billed automatically each month through PayPal.

Once you sign up, the recurring charge will be automatic on the same day each month for only 4 months and they will automatically stop.

The “I don’t want your money” guarantee:

If you find after the 2nd month that this is not for you, we’ll cancel the subscription and refund your fees paid. I don’t want your funds if this isn’t working for you.

To avoid charge back issues, I will send your refund by check if you are in the US or Canada, by paypal if outside the US and Canada.

At this point, I’ve never had to refund any coaching fees.

How to start your program

The signup process is easy.

Make your first payment at the button below and that will sign you up.

Within the next 24-72 hours of signup, we’ll email to setup a phone call between you and I to fine tune the details and schedule of your program.

Note: The first call with your team must start within the next 30 days.

Limited time: I only have 10 spaces. If you are number 11 or above, then I will reverse the transaction and put you on a waiting list.

If you see a signup form instead of add to cart button below, you are too late for this offer.

When you are ready to purchase . . . .

You do not need a PayPal account, but will be asked to create one if you don’t have one. This will make the automatic payment process work.
This button will make the first Payment of $125.
We’ll work together within the next 24-72 hours to setup your conversational schedule.

By making the 1st payment, you acknowledge that

you know this $125 USD payment will happen 4 times, 1 x a month on the same day.
you’ll get 4 telecoaching events with your team
customized support via email or phone 1-1 to you as a coordinator, as needed
you can use the “I don’t want your money” guarantee if this doesn’t work for you.
your team will meet with me online within the next 30 days.
you’ll have access to MP3 recordings of every team meeting for your review.

Order Now

This will sign you up for the program. It will take you to Paypal as a processor where you can pay with your account or with any credit/debit card.

Limited space:

There were over 300 people registered for the webinar and many of them online.

I only have 10 spaces.

I will remove the signup button and change it to a waiting list signup as soon as I have accepted 10 people.

What to do?

Step 1: Click the above button to access Paypal. You can still make a payment even if you don’t have a Paypal account.

Step 2: You’ll go to the page to enter your payment information

Step 3: Follow the prompts.

Step 4: You’ll get an email confirmation. You’ll also get a free subscription to our newsletter, which you can cancel at any time by following the links in each edition.

Step 5: I will contact you by email within the next 24-48 hours to work out the details of our scheduling. That will not be a team call, just you and I and is not one of the 4 team calls. You’ll have 1-1 access to me as coordinator for your team.

If you have trouble:

Contact me right away.

Space is limited to 10. If you are 11th or more, I’ll refund your first payment and cancel your subscription right away. I may sell out faster than I can take this page down.

Twitter: @evangelismcoach
Skype: WalkmanPTY
804-335-1445

If in doubt, email me right away (you have my email address in the registration process and access point).

If I don’t respond, email me again. If I still don’t respond, it means I’m not getting your email, so find me on Twitter or skype. I do respond, but only if I get a question or message from you.

Team Training after the Webinar