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Your First Time Church Visitor Follow-up Letter

December 22, 2014 by EvangelismCoach

Send your church visitors follow-up letters to invite them to the next step in your church visitor assimilation process.

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Church Management Software

3 Ways Church Management Software Can Help Your Church Visitors Become Members

June 11, 2014 by EvangelismCoach

One consistent question  on church hospitality processes that I receive is how to follow up on your first time church visitors.  Questions like: What are good thank you gifts for church visitors? How often should we contact visitors after their first visit? How do we get church visitor contact information in order to follow up? …

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Church Visitor Assimilation Book

My Favorite Books on Church Visitor Assimilation

November 18, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

Helping your church visitor become a regular attender is not rocket science.  Church visitor assimilation is ultimately a matter of personal relationships and connections. But there are plenty of good strategies that churches have tried to help those connecting relationships form naturally. If you want to do some good reading on the subject, here are …

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Church Visitor Assimilation Training Class

November 13, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

“I wish more church visitors would come back and get involved.” This is common lament I hear from church leaders.  They might be leading small churches.  They might be managing large churches. These leaders have put forth valiant efforts to improve their hospitality, increase their marketing, and even provide some programming that would attract new …

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Guest Article: 9 Questions for Retaining your Easter Crowd

March 20, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

As Easter is not too far away, what are you doing to help your church visitors and invited guests to come back the following week? The following article is from a friend of this ministry, Gary Rohrmayer, who writes at YourJourneyBlog. Read on for what Gary shares. To read the development of each of the subpoints, visit …

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Video: What if a church visitor keeps coming back?

January 22, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

Our family experienced a temporary life transition that involved us moving to another state in the US for a period of four months. We left our work, our church that we are planting, our friends and support networks. During this temporary time, we chose a local church in the community we lived in. We chose …

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Churches don't let people in

I Can’t Get In

May 23, 2012 by EvangelismCoach

Over at http://www.ChurchHospitalityTraining.com, I’ve released video Number 3. In today’s video, I address one of the biggest barriers that churches put up to visitors who do come back for several weeks in a row. I once  attended a local fellowship for nearly 6 months and still had no friends.   It was a fellowship with about 100 …

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4 Keys to Keep More of Your Church Visitors

November 17, 2010 by EvangelismCoach

Today’s guest article comes via George Bullard’s website at Bullard Journal.  Below are excerpts from the article called “Why do People Leave Churches.” George Bullard of The Columbia Partnership, a Columbia, S.C.-based organization that helps churches pursue and sustain vital ministry, said churches face an “assimilation challenge” in the first year after new people begin …

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Grow Your Church 20 Percent – By The Numbers

August 18, 2010 by EvangelismCoach

Want to grow your church attendance by 20% this year? I once coached a church that set 20% as their goal. Is 20% growth a realistic? Visitors are the key to growing your church. Without keeping your first time church visitors, your church will not grow. Likewise, you will not replace the members who drop out, move to …

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Book Review Fusion Visitor Assimilation

June 9, 2008 by EvangelismCoach

I finished reading Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church. This book is sure to be on the top of the list for Church Visitor Assimilation texts. Comparing a Ferrari to a Pinto Note: I read Beyond the First Visit: The Complete Guide to Connecting Guests to Your Church, Gary McIntosh (see …

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Assimilating Church Visitors: Beyond the First Visit

May 5, 2008 by EvangelismCoach

What kind of impression do visitors get when they come into your church for the first time? Every church thinks it’s friendly. 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 welcome to remain. During my last book …

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Evangelism Surveys

First Impressions: Survey First Time Visitors (More)

April 29, 2008 by EvangelismCoach

Last month, I posted an entry on Surveying 1st Time Church Visitors to help improve your church’s welcoming. I contacted each church mentioned and discovered the effect of such an online first time visitor survey was a zero. One church visitor survey was a broken link. The second church visitor survey for first time visitors …

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Assimilating Visitors to Your Church

February 18, 2008 by EvangelismCoach

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. Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members …

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Closing the Back Door to the Church

Closing the Back Door

August 2, 2007 by EvangelismCoach

Outreach’s website reports in “Coming Home – Outreach & Evangelism (link broken)” some statistics about why people leave churches and what churches can do to reach back out.   Why people drop out of church The Number One reason people drop out of church is a change in life situation (almost 60%). I think of the …

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