7 Ways to Prepare Your Church for Mothers Day
As you plan for this year's celebration of Mother's Day at your church, here are 7 things you can do to prepare your church beforehand.
Is your church website an open door or barrier to your church?
Today, Yvon Prehn allow me to share her guest post about your church website. Yvon is an excellent writer and shares frequently on church communications – in fact, that is her ministry. I’ve benefited much from my conversations with her and her regular newsletter provides all sorts of great snippets. She also runs a membership …
Video: What is the role of the Evangelist
Recently on The Exchange, Rice Broocks joined Ed Stetzer to discuss the role of the evangelist in the church. Every pastor wants the church to grow. I want my own church to grow. However, I don’t want only Christians from other churches to be part of my church. I don’t want a local believer coming …
Book Review: And The Gathered and Scattered Church
Is your church looking to make first steps to re-engage its community? Or are you caught up in the missional vs. attractional discussion? Google “missional vs. attractional” and you’ll find a slew of blog posts, articles, and books referencing the divide between two ways of doing church. Over the last few years, I’ve talked with …
I Can’t Get In
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 …
Evangelism Strategies Podcast and Webinar Replay
In this complimentary Evangelismcoach webinar, I’ll share with you 3 major areas of evangelism training for your congregation to help you develop your evangelism strategy for 2012. Among other things you’ll lean: 3 areas of focus for congregational evangelism to start your planning 6 different evangelism styles to match the right program for your congregation …
Expecting Church Visitors at Christmas? 5 areas to spruce up
Are you prepared for to receive new church visitors at Christmas time? I want to give you 5 areas to consider improving your church welcome for your first time visitors when the come this Christmas Season.
Update your Church Website for Your Christmas Visitors
Many people check out a church’s website or Facebook page prior to visiting your church at Christmas. If you are having special events at Christmas to attract new church visitors, ask yourself these questions while at your church website: What time is your Christmas Eve Service? What should I expect on Christmas Eve? Is there …
6 Steps to Organize an Invite a Friend Day
A reader contacted me via Ask EvangelismCoach: “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 on the phone, we kicked around a few ideas unique to their church, but developed some ideas that are …
Mothers Day 2009 Outreach Ideas
Mother’s Day 2009 may be a time to conduct special weekend event outreaches. I know several pastors that will give a sermon related to motherhood. But it’s also an opportunity for churches to engage their neighborhood. Some links have since broken.
2 Attitudes for Small Church Transformation
Ron Crandall describes two characterics of what successful turnaround and transformational churches have.
Did Saint Francis of Assisi get it wrong?
One of my loyal readers wrote an interesting post: Today, I had coffee with a friend of mine who said, “I don’t believe that it is my responsibility to share the gospel.” He just wanted to live his life in such a way that people would be attracted to that example and hopefully come to …
Who are you? A Church Website Review
Recently I visited a very elaborate website for a church and wanted to find out some information before potentially visiting. As part of a church’s marketing strategy, a website is a useful tool to help attract people to your congregation. While not directly evangelism, it is a tool that can help create evangelism moments by …
Moving from Attractional to Missional
I’ve spent the last month talking with pastors around the US about church transformation. A few pastors are in really difficult situations (read more at: Leaving Egypt and Not Liking it). From those discussions, it seems that a common meaning of church transformation is Church transformation is to move a church that is stuck or …
How One Church Re-engaged the Neighborhood
A dying church made a decision that helped them re-engage the neighborhood. Out of that, they church was re-vitalized instead of closing their doors.
2 Tips to Make Visitor Friendly Church Announcements
Many churches still use a bulletin or program to share the news of community life. Do you proofread your announcements? Is the font easy to read? Does the bulletin appear professional (not a 7th generation photocopy)? Are contact names and phone numbers included? If not, what central point can a person go to to get …
Business Cards that Church members can give away.
Some churches play hard to get! Websites don’t list any contact information Worship Service times are not on the telephone responder, Service hours are not on on a sign near the front door or on the road. One Low Cost Church Marketing Idea Here is one low-cost idea that you can use to help advertise …
Church Visitors – Miracles disguised as needs.
A few years ago I attended a seminar dinner on How to Minister to Visitors at the local church and I learned some great ideas that are worth sharing here. Perhaps these can help you minister to the people God brings to your church through your invitation or through His own sovereign means. 1. Miracles …
Back to Basics in Church Evangelism
I just read a timely article about this in Net Results Magazine’s September/October 2007 Issue. Bill Easum writes “Back to Basics,” calling on church leaders to get back to the great commission and the great commandment. In returning to the Great Commandment, he exhorts congregations about the need to return to the basic ministry of …
Spiritual Thirst: I want to feel Jesus
We attended a small Spanish language community church.
God draws people to himself through worship, even in one who doesn't understand the words.