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Church Invitation: How to Pray for them

Invite Your Friends to Church: 10 Ways to Pray For Those Invitations

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

I happen to catch a listen on the radio this week of how author and apologist Lee Strobel became a Christian. Part of his journey to faith was accepting an invitation to church. At church, he heard Christianity explained to him with such clarity that it started his thorough investigation into the Christian faith. I found myself thinking: . . .

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When to invite someone to church and not get rejected

February 17, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Has this happened to you?

You invite a friend to church because you are excited about a new sermon series.

They are polite, but continue to dismiss your invitation with "Some day."

The timing of your church invitation just doesn't resonate with them.

How can you change that?

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Guest Article: 9 Questions for Retaining your Easter Crowd

November 13, 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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Another Church Invitation Video

March 1, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

I really like this church invitation video. I’ve used it several times in various conferences.  Always gets a great laugh when the punch line is revealed. While it’s free on YouTube, you should really buy the rights to use it from SermonSpice, like I did. Honor the creators of this video with buying it. Feed …

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How preaching leads to more church invitations

Get More Church Invitations: Relevant Sermons

October 24, 2012 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Growing an Engaged Church

June 28, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

Helping church members invite their friends is one of the side effects of an engaged church, as Albert Winesman wrote Growing an Engaged Church. The basic question of his  book is addressed on the jacket: What would a church look like if members of its congregation were 13 times more likely to have invited someone to …

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how to get more invitations to church

I want you to come to my church

June 22, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

Recently, I’ve been 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 Today, I add number 3 3. Church …

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Recent Statistics on Church Invitations

March 22, 2018 by EvangelismCoach

LifeWay Research did a study and asked how many times they have personally, “invited an unchurched person to attend a church service or some other program at your church?” 48% of church attendees responded, “zero.” 33% percent of people say they’ve personally invited someone one or two times. 19% say they’ve done so on three or more …

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Friendships and Church Invitations

More church invitations: Friends and Family

January 27, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

In the previous article in the series of giving more invitations to church, I focused on prayer. As I continue to look at various ways to increase the number of personal invitations to church that your church members give, today’s article is focused on the number of personal friends who are unchurched. Again, the statistics show …

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A great tool to help your members make an invitation to church

August 10, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Check out this video on giving an invitation to church (Feed Readers may need to click through to see the video). Notice what the fellow does at the end. You can give your church members something similar to help them make that personal invitation to church Church Invitation Card that I used a few years …

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How would you pray for a lost friend

Get More Church Invitations: Prayer

June 29, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

In this series on getting more church invitations and visitor traffic, I’m looking at various ways to increase the number of personal invitations to church that your church members give. The statistics show that a personal invitation from a friend is the best way to get church visitors.  I’m going to look at 6 different …

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Church of St Paul - Leicester Street, Leamington Spa - church sign - Welcome to St Paul's Church

Personal Invitations to Church are Most Effective

November 5, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

During a recent coaching appointment, a pastor in a small country church in the United States expressed frustration that church members are not inviting guests to church.

The church had reached a plateau in attendance and had been stuck there for nearly 2 years.

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How do we measure the impact of church hospitality

March 15, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

The other day, I saw a question in my Twitter feed: How do we measure our hospitality? There are a couple of different ways to measure the success of your hospitality ministry. You could measure effective church hospitality program by Volunteers who are excited to serve because of they see impact or influence they have. …

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Paul Steinbrueck talks church websites with EvangelismCoach

Use Facebook Events for Increase Invitations for Christmas

December 17, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

This article on using Facebook events is reprinted with persmission from Christian Webtrends (blog.ourchurch.com) to edit for Christmas.  It was originally aimed for Easter, but it’s just as true for Christmas. The images refer to an Easter service, but you get the idea. The original article appeared in 2011, and Facebook may have changed the …

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Church Visitor Welcome Packet

Expecting Church Visitors at Christmas? 5 areas to spruce up

December 17, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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Advent Wreath

Use Christmas services to re-invite inactive members

November 11, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Christmas is a time to bring healing, a time to make amends, and a time to start over.

It is possible that an invitation to church might bring that healing.

Consider these 4 ways to invite them back.

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Here are 5 ways we are using to grow small church attendance

5 Ways to Grow Small Church Numbers

November 5, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

A regular question I get is "How do you grow a small church?"  "How do I grow small church numbers?" We were a small church, made up primarily of immigrants from other countries. Here are 5 steps we are implementing to grow that total number to 70.

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10 Ways to Pray for Inviting Visitors to Church

March 18, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

How effective are personal invitations to church? Here is what the research shows

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5 minutes to church hospitality

5 Minutes to Refresh a Vision for Church Hospitality

April 15, 2015 by EvangelismCoach

A frequent question I receive is how do pastors regularly cast a vision for hospitality ministries for the church. Particularly when they are in charge of casting vision for everything. So I want to share with you another practice for growing your church’s hospitality. (Read Practice #1: Review your Church Hospitality Ministries) Practice #2: Regularly …

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Growing the small church

Only Two Things Grow a Church

June 27, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

I’ve taken up a pattern of walking most mornings to help clear my head  and gather my thoughts  during this season of the year. I’ve subscribed to the podcast from Church Talk Radio, and most segments are about 45 minutes to one hour. I’ve got it on my MP3 Player and while walking, I consume …

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Review of Beyond Belief by Patrick McElroy

February 17, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Beyond Belief by Patrick McElroy is subtitled Live a Consistent, Spiritually Powerful life. From the back cover: “a book about breaking free from a spiritually weak life to achieve the consistently powerful one that is available to every believer. It’s a Bible Study 101 that guides reader to a greater revelation of God.”

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Mothers Day 2009 Outreach Ideas

May 1, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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Statistics on spirituality of twentysomethings

February 14, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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How to Get a First Time Church Visitor

January 27, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

The short answer: Personal Invitation from a Trusted friend. Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn) In your research, have you found that there’s one specific reason that visitors come to church? The friendship factor. We’ve asked more than 50,000 people over the last 10 years why they came …

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