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The Energy Curve: Why Your Church's Most Important Connection Isn't the First One
The church rolls out the red carpet on Sunday morning… then quietly rolls it back up. By the time someone is considering baptism, plugging into a volunteer role, or trying to find a small group, the intentionality that dazzled them on week one has thinned to a trickle. That's not hospitality. It’s actually a bait-and-switch.
Designing an Effective First-Time Guest Follow-Up Process for Your Church
We may not think of it this way, but when someone walks through your church doors for the first time and shares their contact information with you, they’re extending an invitation for relationship. How you respond in those critical first days and weeks can determine whether they become part of your church family or remain a one-time visitor, disengaged by your response. A thoughtful follow-up process doesn’t just happen—it requires intentional design around six key considerations that will shape every interaction with your guests.
How to Ghost your Christmas Volunteers
Christmas is magical.
Lights. Music. Nostalgia. Cinnamon everywhere.
And also… your single biggest volunteer recruitment moment of the entire year.
Which means this is the perfect season to talk about how to absolutely, completely, spectacularly fumble the ball with your one-time Christmas volunteers.
The One Habit That Predicts Whether Guests Will Stick Around
If I could give you one metric to measure the health of your church’s follow-up, it wouldn’t be attendance or baptisms.
It wouldn’t be small-group sign-ups or volunteer counts, either.
This one behavior is what I call a keystone habit, because if you can pull it off… it proves nearly everything else underneath your ministry is aligned and healthy.
Need a quick free assimilation overview for you and your team to jumpstart the new year?
Do you ever approach a new opportunity and feel the need for one more run through of the basics before you start? 2020 is your church’s new opportunity and my youtube conversation with David Hopper is your run through before jumping in!