Follow-up after a church holiday outreach event: speed dating or relationship building?
What kind of a relationship do you have with someone, if you meet and then walk away, never to call, talk, or see the person again? Not much of one is it? In contrast, what about a relationship where two people meet briefly, but then keep in touch through letters, emails, phone calls, and additional [...]
Measure success correctly—or why a big turnout doesn’t necessarily mean a successful event
How do you measure success in a church outreach event? Immediately after any event is a great time to evaluate past actions and plan future successes. A great turnout doesn’t equal great results I recently looked at a church website that celebrated the great success of their fall outreach by listing the number of hot dogs served [...]
Outreach Tragedies— church celebrations without connection, an On-demand Webinar
Church Outreach events involve a tremendous amount of work, cost money and time–but in spite of all the work, if you don’t make connections with people you, your event won’t accomplish all it should. This short webinar will show you how to make connections that can turn into significant spiritual opportunities with the use of [...]
Resource collection: How to effectively recruit the volunteers you need for fall outreach and always
With all the fantastic opportunities fall provides for church outreach, no doubt your church calendar is filling up. But as your calendar fills, your worries also grow as you wonder how you will ever staff all the events. Will you get enough volunteers? Or will you be so tired as the holiday season approaches you [...]
Fall event strategy: just because a lot of people show up, does that make your church special event successful?
How do you measure success in a church outreach event? Is it about the number of people who showed up? Is it about what a fantastic time they had at the event? Is it about how many volunteers you had show up to help and how many stayed around to help clean up? Though all [...]
PLEASE READ FIRST: Effective Seasonal and Special Event Communications
Many books and church leaders agree on the value of seasonal celebrations as “bridge” events to bring people to your church. Seasonal celebrations can’t be ignored because of the advertising saturating our culture. The same over-advertised holidays often prompt people to think about family times that may be only a memory and should motivate the church [...]
Charging for outreach events, what’s wrong with that?
There may be legitimate reasons for charging for some events, for example if you are bringing in a professional Christian comedian or speaker—someone has to pay for their time and expenses. However, in most instances, I believe strongly that it communicates an incorrect message if a church charges (or even asks for donations) at a [...]
Biblical and cultural reasons why our seasonal church events must be a link to further involvement in the church and not simply as an end in themselves
Jesus expects effective communication from his church. Introducing people to him, growing converts into disciples, building up our church and his Church, is what the Great Commission is all about. One way we can begin to fully fulfill the Great Commission, to get people started on the journey of discovery to mature discipleship is through [...]
How to get people to come back to church after Easter and other special events, Webinar, On-Demand
Lots of people often show up for special events hosted by a church, but even bigger than the challenge to get them to attend your event and all the work involved putting it on is the challenge to get them to come back to church and become involved in the church on a continuing basis. [...]
