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.
We had a great webinar this afternoon. Registrations from 10 different countries, covering 31 different states and churches from a wide variety of denominations and traditions. Perhaps you’re wondering How to improve your first impressions ministry for first time church visitors What to say to a first time visitor. How to train church greeters. Do …
Leading your church to pray for their personal evangelism efforts may not be as easy as you think. I have found that people bring their own agendas to the prayer meeting and it becomes easy for the prayer meeting to be hi-jacked. Here, I want to offer to you a simple guideline for an evangelistic …
The ARIS 2008 survey was carried out during February-November 2008 and collected answers from 54,461 respondents who were questioned in English or Spanish. The American population self-identifies as predominantly Christian but Americans are slowly becoming less Christian. 86% of American adults identified as Christians in 1990 and 76% in 2008. The historic Mainline churches and …
I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of churches seeking to engage its community. See Part I of Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part I See Part II of Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part II This …
From James White, given as a hand out during a church plant conference. Write a mission statement for your church. Write a twelve-month plan of action leading up to the first public service. Write a twelve-month plan of action for the first year of the church. Write a doctrinal statement . Write your constitution and …
I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of struggling churches. It’s a book that is based out of years of practical experience, and has much to say to how a church should engage it’s community. How does your church connect with the community? …
For youth pastors, young adult pastors, and others who work with this group, this research gives current insight based on survey data. Lifeway has published a podcast with it, found at Stetzer’s article. From Ed Stetzer’s research: In fact, 73 percent of unchurched twentysomethings consider themselves “spiritual” and would like to know more about “God …
I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of churches seeking to engage its community. See Part I of Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part I The authors do make progress in developing their thesis in the remainder part of …
