A church evangelism committee helps your congregation share its faith with confidence. Its purpose is to practice personal evangelism, train church members in conversational evangelism, and lead the church’s outreach efforts. Learn how this committee stays focused on evangelism rather than hospitality and discover three clear purpose areas to guide your team’s work.
Black Friday crowds create a natural opportunity for your church to bless the community. Simple acts of kindness, like coffee, water, or snacks, can show God’s love in practical ways and open doors for gentle gospel conversations. Here are seven servant evangelism ideas your volunteers can use during the Thanksgiving weekend.
Pastors can lead congregational evangelism by shaping culture, not just programs. Learn how to model faith conversations, highlight testimonies, equip your team, launch series well, and plan intentional outreach rhythms.
Every pastor I know wants to grow their church by leading people to Christ.
If that’s you, you’re in good company.
If you’re succeeding at it, you are in rare company.
Healthy churches grow in worship, fellowship, discipleship, and mission engagement in the community.
They also grow through evangelism.
What is your church's evangelism strategy?
Your church can be used by God to lead people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Here are ideas for Evangelism Strategies to help you do that.
Don't let community service outreach projects become a substitute of personal evangelism
A few quick ideas for church based outreaches during the summer olympics.
Sunday school has a long history of being an evangelistic tool of the church. I’ve visited growing churches that utilize their Sunday School to not only grow their members, but create a space where newcomers can connect and discover faith. Recently, a small church pastor asked me about how to make their Sunday School evangelistic. …
God looks at the inside not the outside. If you were to use this video as a conversation starter, what additional questions might you use? Check out this video discussion starter and then I’ll share some possible ways to use this video:
One frustrating problem for small church pastors is leading a church that has no desire to share their faith. How does that pastor begin to change that and overcome the natural resistance to personal evangelism? If a pastor had no training in personal evangelism (which is likely if the church is a mainline denomination), then …
In my first church, we chose October 31 as a safe alternative to Halloween. We planned all sorts of children’s games, candy giveaway, costume contest, and all around fun. We mobilized lots of volunteers to run the games and our small church had a tremendous party every year. Our Harvest Party (we called it) celebrated …
From a pastor friend of mine: “Two Amazing stories from church today…card from one Campus said, “the guy I used to buy drugs from came to church and got saved today.” Report from another campus “I was on my way to buy heroin to kill myself tonight b/c I had no hope…saw the church…came in…gave …
These statistics are a few years old, but nonetheless, what is your church doing to reach this demographic? I admit, I am a little biased. I do ministry full time among developing leaders in Central America. God has given me a love for this culture that is just as passionate as my own North American …
I posted this question to the EvangelismCoach.org Facebook page. “Should we invite unsaved friends to church?” Give a Yes or No, and then give a reason. The answers were pretty divided between Yes and No, with some strong opinions: It’s not my point here to drift into a full theology of the nature of the …
Recently, I was asked via Ask EvangelismCoach about ways to increase the number of invitations to church that members give to their network of friends. Review these posts to get on board with some of the answers More church invitations: Friends and Family Get More Church Invitations: Prayer I want you to come to my …
As a church leader, what if you don’t excel in personal evangelism? Can your congregation still enjoy conversion growth? Watch these three pastors in this 10-minute video about how churches can grow in evangelism. Darrin Patrick, Mark Dever and Matt Chandler spend some time talking about their different evangelism approaches. You might like these books …
I’m looking for Great Christmas Outreach Ideas that you have done, particularly those that involve the church in serving or blessing the community. I’m particularly looking to generate ideas for the smaller church, under 150 in worship. I’m not looking for how to bless your own church members. Please leave a comment below, and make …
Here’s a 17+ minute video of Tim Keller talking at Lausanne about how you reach cities by Planting & renewing churches that are contextual to the city, Establishing citywide gospel movements By contextual churches, he speaks of planting a church that fits in your context. As part of that talk he gave these marks to …
A big hospitality barrier for many churches is a malfunctioning greeter ministry. Greeters don’t show up on time, do a half-baked job, rarely make eye contact, and seem don’t they don’t really care. I saw this on my twitter feed not too long ago: Church Greeters who scowl when they are told good morning really …
Have you ever considered that simply inviting someone to church could be all it takes for Jesus to take hold of them and change their life? All you have to do is ask them to come! It seems too simple, doesn’t it?
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Four out of ten pastors lack strong interest in increasing community outreach.
Evangelism is the tool that brings others to Christ and His Church.
Check out these 10 Roles an Evangelism Committee can Fulfill in a Healthy Congregation.
