• how to get your first time church visitors to fill out a connection card?
• What is the best way to get church visitor contact information?
• What is the best way for churches to gather information on visitors?
• How to use a church visitor contact card?

All church visitor assimilation or first time church visitor follow-up processes begin with this information.

Yet so many of you are having difficulty getting the information from your first time visitors to your church.

3 Questions to ask if no one fills out your Visitor Contact Card

Scott Douglas raises three questions to ask yourself if no one fills out your visitor card

1. Do they know about the visitor card?
2. Do they know what to do with the visitor card?
3. Are your visitor cards stocked neatly?

Source: Three Questions to Ask When No One Fills Out Your Card

An Expert Interview on Church Visitor Cards

Listen in as I interview Yvon Prehn of www.effectivechurchcom.com about how to get church visitor information cards filled out.

Based on some survey results I’ve done, it seems that getting church visitor contact information is an important question.

Yvon spends time answering questions on

• how to format visitor contact cards,
• how to get church visitor cards filled out, and
• what to do with church visitors contact information afterwords.

Church Visitor Contact Information Podcast

Yvon’s book “Connection cards” is available for instant download after purchase at http://www.effectivechurchcom.com

Yvon’s book is now available in paperpack:  Connection Cards (amazon Link)

You should get it. (I recommend products that I have used).

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Philip got a word from the Lord

Can we get such words for today that lead us into an evangelism encounter?

In the attached podcast, my friend Mike Neelley talks about his experiences as a regular part of his evangelistic life as he waits on God’s guidance about people he should speak a blessing to.

He lives out my teaching on noticing people and then takes the risk to step out in obedience.

Mike realizes he is only seed planting in the process of evangelism.

Listen in as Mike introduce how he practices a form of evangelism popularized in a book Treasure Hunting Evangelism.

1. What is treasure hunting and what it might look like, connected to personal evangelism?
2. What are some scriptural examples that might form the basis of this practice?
3. Mike shares a few examples from his own ministry of how this worked, including how he got a thank you note from the hygienist.
4. What does “pressing in to God” mean?
5. What do you think God is doing in the life of the other person as you share what you think God is showing you?
6. What role does this event play in the journey to faith?
7. What is the role of discernment in evaluating the guidance you get from God?
8. How does doing this treasure hunting help your walk with Christ?
9. Can any follower of Christ do this?
10. What four tests can you apply to discern guidance?

Podcast note:  I notice there is some funny background noises in the interview, but I’m not sure what sounds were being picked up, nor do I know how to edit those sounds out.

Resources Mentioned:

• The Ultimate Treasure Hunt: A Guide to Supernatural Evangelism Through Supernatural Encounters
• Can You Hear Me?: Tuning In to the God Who Speaks

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It’s about 25 minutes long.

Key takeaways:

• We wanted to do this.
• We baptized two new people as a result
• Pastor’s excited because he’s seeing results
• More people want to share their faith now that they see our effectiveness.
• We had a 40 days of fasting for evangelism before we attended your conference
• The price was cheaper than I expected and totally worth it.

The coaching process she describes is with her evangelism team.  Read more here:

4 month evangelism team coaching process

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I interview Kevin Cunningham, outreach pastor of a church in Nashua New Hampshire, a town of about 80,000.

Christmas Outreach

Each year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the city turns Main Street into a walking district.

Close to 30,000 people from across New England visit downtown Nashua to officially kick-off the Christmas season.

The evening starts with a procession from City Hall to Railroad Square where the City’s official Christmas tree is lit.

Much of the downtown is closed to traffic for the evening, allowing strollers to enjoy the live entertainment, sample offerings from street vendors, dine in downtown’s fine restaurants and do holiday shopping at specialty shops and boutiques.

Promoting Special Christmas Events

This church used this event to promote two Christmas activities.

• Group’s A Night in Bethlehem—converting our church grounds into a first-century experience of what Bethlehem must have looked like on the first Christmas.
• Our Christmas Eve service—that will feature a lot of drama vignettes, special music and group carol singing.

Conversation Starters

Kevin also shares what was on their table as giveaways.

1. Bibles
2. New Testaments
3. Business card-sized invites to our Christmas activities
4. Booklets (from Outreach Marketing) with the Christmas Story and a message for non Christ-followers that presented the Gospel and a message for believers who are not in fellowship.
5. Gary Rohrmayer’s Your Spiritual Journey pamphlets (Read my review of Spiritual Conversations)
6. CDs from a Marriage Event with authors and speakers Drs. Paul & Virginia Friesen on how to “Be Part of a Great Marriage.”
7. Candy Canes
8. Brochures – see the images below

Intentional Conversations about Faith

Besides marketing the Christmas activities, the volunteer team was also intentional about faith sharing conversations.  Make sure you listen in to see how they held normal conversations during this Christmas outreach.

Read 7 Habits for Highly Effective Personal Evangelism to get a feel for what this might look like.

They included

• a parent needing help raising a middle schooler and looking for a church with a good youth group.
• A couple planning to get married and looking for a church
• A number of people who had drifted away from church over the years and sensing the need to get back on track.
• Some were believers—others from a ritualistic background and looking for something more meaningful.

Showing Church Hospitality to First Time Visitors

About midway through the interview with Kevin, we talk about hospitality issues:

• How did you prepare your volunteers for this table?
• How are you preparing your hospitality and church member to receive them and make intentional connections?
• Plans are you making to help your first time visitors return after the events are over

What would you do differently?

Finally, Kevin shares some practical principles he learned doing this kind of outreach and the one thing he would do differently.

• Find areas or events that already exist in your area where you can generate interest.
• Don’t say no for people.  Even though our town’s event is called the “Winter Holiday Stroll” they included a section for non-profits that we were able to take advantage of.
• Start early.  Our application had to be filed by mid-September.

Podcast of Christmas Outreach

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• Maybe your members talk to each other and ignore the first time visitor.
• Maybe your volunteers are not serving the needs of visitors.
• Maybe your first time visitors don’t feel welcomed.

In this audio sample from the Create a Culture of Hospitality MP3 download, I share other evidences that your church hospitality is not working.

Church hospitality systems break down where there is lack of vision for welcoming the visitors that God brings you.  Proper vision casting will help your whole church increase it’s impact.

“Your emphasis on prayer will make a big impact for us!” C. Parsons

“So many fantastic ideas on how to be more welcoming” – R. Wade.

“Practical suggestions to address vital issues”

Listen to this Audio Sample

The Rest of the Talk.

In this 79 minute audio MP3, pastors, hospitality ministry leaders, and volunteers will learn:

• 4 Reasons Church Visitors Don’t Return and Which Ones You Can Fix
• Evidence of Poor Church Hospitality Practices
• Meeting the Expectations of Your Church Visitors
• The Importance of Initiative in Greeting Church Visitors
• What to do when the worship service is over.
• 14 Ways to Cast a Hospitality Vision
• How to Pray With Your Church Visitors
• 7 Next Steps for the Next 30 days.

There was SO much in this recording. The biggest thing for me was hearing the importance of what our church can do when the service is over to initiate conversation with newcomers. You also gave us practical ideas that we could easily implement.

We have got quite good systems in place for before the service, but its after the service that we really need to work on. Thanks for pointing out some ideas for what we might do – Renda W, New Zealand.

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In today’s podcast, I talk with a pastor whose little country church is

• bringing the good news of Jesus AND
• serving the community AND
• leading people to faith in Christ.

I interview Pastor Laura Long, from a small country church in an economically depressed area of Marion NC, Clinchfield Presbyterian Church.

It’s clear that Pastor Laura loves the community, loves the people, and the church has had a great ministry of presence in the community.

Recently, they’ve been engaging the community as a church, and transforming lives one at a time.

If you think your church is too small to make a difference, listen in today’s show.

In this podcast you’ll hear

• the community setting of church.
• the food program that connects them with their community.
• how prayer plays a role
• the intentional listening and response to spiritual needs.
• the impact of community service on your church

Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of teaching on engaging your community and sharing your faith while serving your community.

There are some great books on the subject such as

• AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church (Exponential Series)
• The Externally Focused Church
• Externally Focused Quest
• A New Kind of Big: How Churches of Any Size Can Partner to Transform Communities
• Growing the Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit: Seven Principles of Dynamic Cooperation

and it’s a theme that I’ve touched on every now and then on my website and in the podcast feed.

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Given that many of our sign-ups were just at the beginning stages of using social media, Paul outlines how social media fits in church communication and some basic checklists about how to use social media.

Video

Resources

Slides as a PDF:

Social Media for Church Planters Webinar Slides

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Paul’s company will host your website and help you update it: OurChurch.com

Spanish Resources (after a question came up)

• despuesdeldomingo.com
• http://www.newgenerationfellowship.net

Listener suggestions for a tool for getting twitter/Facebook Integration

• https://www.facebook.com/RSS.Graffiti

Tip Jar

If you wish, Use this wish list from Amazon to put something on my Kindle. . .. .

This is for those who want to share in the ministry this way.

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We don’t want to be known as the church in the hotel.

We want to be known as the church that heals families.

We don’t want people to come so we can grow the church.

We want people to come and give themselves away in the community.

I’ve been reading some great books on these themes, and it recently inspired the sermon that is the podcast attached to this episode:

• Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community
• AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church (Exponential Series)
• The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church for the Community

Main points

1.  The dangers when the focus is only come.

2.  The call to go and give yourselves away.

3.  The blessings God give when you go

Podcast

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Perhaps, your church has stalled out in its evangelistic passion.  People are not coming to faith and your members are not really engaging people into finding faith in Christ.    The life-saving station has become the club of comfort.

Yet, other churches continue to grow year after year.

How do they maintain their evangelistic passion and zeal to reach their community and be a transformative agent for the kingdom of God?

Their leaders have developed a sowing mentality.

They have learned to apply the law of sowing and reaping in their evangelistic efforts.

How do you develop a sowing mentality?

Webinar Video

Podcast:

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• How do you lead your congregation in effective evangelism?
• How do you equip your members to be more confident in sharing their faith?
• How do you do evangelism training?
• How can we stimulate members to get excited about the GREAT COMMISSION?
• How can I create a culture of evangelism and equip my church members for it?
• How do you get others excited about the opportunity?

In this 60 minute EvangelismCoach.org webinar,Gary Rohrmayer will join Chris Walker of EvangelismCoach.org to talk about various different evangelism strategies.

Pastors will lean new ways of equipping your people to reach their friends.

• How to ignite outreach passion in your church
• How to identify places on the evangelistic journey
• How to incorporate evangelistic training throughout the life of the church

Books Mentioned:

• Conspiracy of Kindness: A Unique Approach to Sharing the Love of Jesus
• The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church for the Community
• Spiritual Conversations (Gary’s Book)

Videos Replay via Vimeo

Podcast

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• How do you find someone who is spiritually thirsty?
• How can you help someone on the next step of their spiritual journey towards Christ?

I’ve asked author Gary Rohrmayer to give us a webinar on this very topic.

In this 60 minute webinar, where you don’t have to travel or spend any money Gary Rohrmayer will join Chris Walker of EvangelismCoach.org and will share with us

• How pastors can increase the number of spiritual conversations in their life.
• How pastors can better equip their church to reach their sphere of influence
• How pastors can sow seeds of awareness throughout their community

You can expect to learn

• how to uncover a person of peace in your sphere of influence
• how to become a better networker in your community and have fun doing it
• how not to waste your time in fruitless conversations

Books Mentioned:

• Conspiracy of Kindness: A Unique Approach to Sharing the Love of Jesus
• The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church for the Community
• Spiritual Conversations (Gary’s Book)

Videos Replay via Vimeo

Podcast:

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He’s the publisher of Net Results magazine and the co-host of Church Talk Radio, a podcast that is on my ipod player and I have listened to nearly every segment and hope to be on it in the future.

He’s written a couple of books, one of which has found it’s way into my recommended list during my personal evangelism conferences:

Hitchhikers Guide to Evangelism.

He’s even got a website by that name, geared towards helping churches with transformation.

If you haven’t already done so, make sure you have grabbed the podcast feed at the Evangelismcoach.org website or via Itunes and you’ll get future episodes.

Reaching Men for Christ

Today’s theme is about reaching men and what churches can do to reach out to them.

Bill’s got some great things to share, so we’ll have a discussion about that today.

1.  The problem: Why churches are not reaching men.
2.  The solutions: What can churches do to reach men?
2.  Next Steps: What are some ideas of next action steps pastors can do to change something about reaching men?

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Twenty 20 Vision

Chip and I have been friends since we ministered together in college back in the late ’80s and early ’90s when we experienced a move of God on our campus that has since produced pastors, church planters, and missionaries.

Chip’s particular ministry has evolved into leadership training and life planning for pastors. I’m glad to call him a friend.

A few weeks ago, Chip and I were talking about personal evangelism for pastors.  I’m developing a new seminar based around this theme, because the goal of our ministry is to help pastors be effective in personal evangelism, as well as lead personal evangelism in their congregations.

If you were to imagine evangelism as a field, today’s focus is narrowed down to one part of how evangelism happens: out of the overflow of your relationship with Christ.

Listen in as Chip shares about nurturing the pastor’s personal relationship with Christ.

• Area number 1: Personal spirituality
• Area number 2: Soul care
• Area number 3: Sins of Omission

In the end, Chip gives us some great practical action steps and a much-needed message for pastors to hear.   After I did this podcast with him, I did some of those action steps and feel better.  It was a personally needed call to action.

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Book Resources

Chip mentions a few related books:

• “Whispers of His Power” -Amy Carmichael
• “The Pursuit of God” -A.W. Tozer
• “A Long Obedience” –Eugene Peterson
• “Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership” –Ruth Haley Barton
• “Leading on Empty” –Wayne Cordeiro
• “God Isn’t In A Hurry” –Warren Wiersbe

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I’ve asked him to talk about

• what he does for evangelism as a pastor,
• how he does evangelism as a pastor, and
• some of what he’s learn about being a pastor and out in the community.

Today, our guest is a Harley Davidson lover and Nazerene Pastor from Alaska, MJ Quick.

MJ and I have been friends since I visited Alaska in 2008 to teach on personal evangelism, and he has since become the graphics guy for my products.

He is the founding pastor of Souljourn Community Church of the Nazarene, a growing congregation in Anchorage that meets on the University of Anchorage Alaska Campus as well as in Home Churches around the city.

Listen in as I ask him:

1. What does evangelism look like in your life as a pastor?
2. What are some habits and practices that you’ve taken on to have that frequency of conversation
3. Share with us a typical conversational example:
4. In summary, what are some ideas of next action steps pastors can do to change something?

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Church press releases are remarkably simple to do once you understand some basic points and setup a distribution system for your church press release.

How First PC Englewood Uses Press Releases

I recently spoke with Richard Hong, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Englewood NJ, about what they have learned over the last few years in using press releases to build up and shape the reputation of their church in the neighborhood.

Churches has asked me how to add some effective marketing to their outreach campaigns, and press releases are one way you can garner free publicity for your church.

Press releases are more than the little program announcements that some churches still make in the Saturday paper.

Regular press releases by your church can call attention to your church and increase your church’s visibility and reputation in your community.  This may help attract people to your church who want to participate in your programs, and hopefully grow in their walk with Christ.

Church Press Release Interview

I’ve seen some awful church press releases, and some good ones, so I’ve asked Richard to share

• what their church is doing,
• how they do it, and
• lessons they’ve learned from using press releases

Listen in as Richard shares

• on different types of press releases
• what makes for useless press releases
• how his church distributes press releases
• How they get free professional videos made
• How to effectively position your press release in community newspapers.
• The nuts and bolts of formatting a press release for your church.

Finally, he wraps it up with some specific action steps you can take if you want to develop a press release strategy for your church.

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Yet I encounter more and more people that still feel somewhat clumsy in praying and want a prayer strategy for personal evangelism.

People find it helpful to have a structure or an outline to use as they pray for their friends.  (Not sure how to create a evangelistic prayer list to help you with that?  Read: Make a prayer list of friends.)

I interviewed Phillip Taylor of Ron Hutchcraft Ministries (at the time) to give us an evangelistic prayer outline based on Colossians 4:3-4

And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.

Listen and Download to A Prayer Strategy for Personal Evangelism

Prayer is fundamental to the spiritual rescue business

Three Open Prayer Strategy for Personal Evangelism- Life-changing prayer based on Colossians 4:3-4

• “Lord, Open a door.”
• “Lord, open their heart.”
• “Lord, open my mouth.”

Benefits of regular prayer that is focused on evangelism.

• Removes the perceived pressure to make stuff happen.
• Helps the everyday believer recognize the opportunities in front of them to make a difference
• Heightens our awareness of God’s work around us.
• Brings immediate meaning and purpose to our existence
• Raises awareness of our own personal holiness.

Do you need help in Personal Evangelism?

Start here with this MP3 Download on Evangelism Training from the store to help you see where you need to grow.

In this 70 minute MP3 AUDIO recording on personal evangelism you will learn:

• How church invitations are part of evangelism
• How to discover and share your own journey to faith
• What you can say about the gospel message.
• How to personally lead someone to faith in Christ.

It’s a 70 minute audio file that takes just a few minutes to download, but it may help you answer the question:

What can you do in the next 90 days to grow in your evangelism skills?

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I’ve often wondered what triggered such an emotional response in her that she’d break all protocol and wipe the feet of Jesus with her tears. (Read more about the prostitute of Luke 7 in my sermon notes: Who do you see?)

In my evangelism teaching, I often ask

How can I find that same passion that leads to the spontaneous worship of Jesus?

What triggered that passion in this prostitute?

In an earlier post on a wrestling with a definition of evangelism, I noted:

I see Jesus asking questions of the heart as in the story of the Good Samaritan, or talking with the woman at the well.

I see Jesus forgiving people.

A prostitute who hears “come unto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest” finds forgiveness and anoints the feet of Jesus with perfume and her tears.  She was forgiven much, she loves much.  So much that she breaks all sorts of social protocol and wrecks someone’s dinner.

To a woman caught in adultery – “Who condemns you, neither do I.”  To a teenager broken over sex outside of marriage – there is hope in that story that she or he can be restored to God.

I see Jesus seeking after people, Zacchaeus in a tree.  With a little sanctified imagination, I can imagine that Matthew was at that dinner as well, a life transformed as a witness to Zacchaeus.

The four points we typically scripted outline are not recorded in any whole outline in the teachings of Jesus.  He invites well known sinners to come and see, come and follow.  . . .

I wonder how we as Christians can recapture that sense of invitation: “come and see this man” (Samaritan), “Come and see” (Nathaniel), “Come unto Me” (Jesus).  How as a church can we create that place where people can investigate, explore, and discover?

Sermon on the Prostitute of Luke 7

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Its an evangelistic bridge building strategy to help the believers in your church recognize and participate in more conversational opportunities about people’s spiritual journey.

I’m familiar with using the same ideas in popular music, and movies, so the idea isn’t new.

Listen to my friend Bill Feree talk about how he’s doing this in a Sunday school Class.

Key takeaways about personal evangelism:

• Book club discussion group centered on faith themes in popular literature
• Implemented as a Sunday School class.
• How to structure and lead the class
• How people learn to talk about their faith by discussing books.
• Examples of faith sharing conversations that started from a popular book.
• How this class has raised the evangelistic temperature of its group.

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They chose to take their regular Sunday service and move it to the front lawn of their church — going to the streets, so to speak.

Their church has done several short-term mission trips. This idea came out of wondering why can’t they do some of that same compassionate work in their local neighborhood.

The Prayer Station

One additional feature of their missional event was the prayer station (Follow the link to see how to do a prayer station).

Staffed with elders trained in compassionate prayer, this was a place where people could unload their burdens and have someone pray with them.

People self-selected to sit at the table.

This is a place where evangelism conversations can happen normally, as people express their spiritual thirst. (See What is Spiritual Thirst?)

This is also a place to hear about community needs that might be under the radar.

Listen to How to Setup a Prayer Station

Alan and I did a phone conversation about how to setup the prayer station.  Listen here:

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In this Evangelismcoach podcast episode, I talk with Jeffrey Johnson about every evangelism style has a place in the ministry of evangelism.

The styles (with one of the characteristics of each style) are:

• assertive (confident)
• analytical(logical)
• story-telling (engaging)
• relational (conversational)
• invitational (hospitable)
• incarnational (compassionate)

In 6 chapters of Got Style? Personality Based Evangelism, Johnson maps out a biblical example of each style, and speaks of strengths and weaknesses of each.  This goes way beyond the “this is the best or only way of evangelism” most books focus on.

We’ll be talking about how personal evangelism fits into the local church.  The big problem that we see with most evangelism training is that it is divorced from connecting people to the local church.  How can we help the church support the work of evangelism?

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We’ll look at easy to hard fixes that you can make this weekend when it comes specifically to preparing your church building for worship.

We’ll also be discussing Chris’ book How To Welcome Church Visitors and Church greeters 101

Listen in to the podcast

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• They are embarrassing.
• They are clumsy.
• They are hard to keep up to date.
• It was designed 10 years ago in HTML and uses expensive software.

What if you could fix that

• for free (do it yourself) or
• for a small fee and outsource a new setup and then upkeep yourself?

Expert Interview on Church Websites

I’ve arranged a conversation with the three experts I look to when it comes to my ministry website.

I knew absolutely nothing 2 years ago, and what you see here at EvangelismCoach.org I learned in under 30 days.

In fact, I understood things in under 2 weeks and I still run the entire website all by myself.

It’s really easy, the software is free, and the learning curve was short.

I don’t know a thing about graphic design or HTML or PHP (well, now I know very little).

If you can write, and hit a publish button, you can make an easy to use and keep current church website.

I interview

• Yvon Prehn of Effective Church Communications, who has lots of videos for the do it yourself type
• my personal guru, Neal Locke, who will do simple migrations or start-ups for you
• Paul Steinbrueck of OurChurch.com, who can do more complex websites and custom designs

Listen Now to Simple Church Websites that Work

Here are the church website resources from our guests:

Paul Steinbrueck at OurChurch.Com:

Paul Steinbrueck

Twitter: @Paulsteinbrueck
OurChurch.Com – Comprehensive Web Solutions for Christians

OurChurch.Com web design, hosting, & marketing services: http://OurChurch.Com
Christian Web Trends Blog: http://blog.ourchurch.com
Church Website Tips page: http://blog.ourchurch.com/church-website-tips/

Yvon Prehn

Twitter: @YvonPrehn
website: www.effectivechurchcom.com
YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/yvonprehn

Neal Locke

Twitter: @MstrLocke
my website:  http://www.mrlocke.net

Affordable Church Websites

Here is one solution to turn your clumsy embarrassing church website into a awesome front porch for your visitors to come and see you before coming to see you.

Sure, you could do it free, but has anyone fixed your church website site in 10 years?

Clover Church Websites

Clover Website is one solution to a church website that works.

I subscribe to a email list of church administrators and this one has been highly recommended in that list.  You can read those recommendations here.

We just switched to Clover Church Websites Sites last month. Our Youth Pastor maintains it and loves it. They even have a live person that answers the phone if there are any questions!

Definite limitations due to the fact that they’ve designed it for easy use by non-web designers but the benefits, in my opinion, far outweigh the limitations. We haven’t been backed into a corner by any of the limitations.  Most have an easy work around.

Your church website should not embarrass you.

Look into Clover for your church website.  This is an affiliate link which will benefit our ministry work in Latin America.

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Ed Cyzewski (MDiv Biblical Theological Seminary) is a freelance writer, speaker, and blogger in New England.

He is the author of Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life (NavPress), an introduction to contextual theology for lay readers that explained the roles of context, God, scripture, tradition, and global Christians in the forming of theology.

Ed blogs regularly on theology at www.inamirrordimly.com and on writing at www.edcyz.com.

Twitter: EdCyzewski

Upcoming Webinar with Brad Long:

October 13, 2009, 3pm: Webinar: Matching the Gospel to a Persons Need

Guest: Brad Long, Executive Director of PRMI.org

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Related Books

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• The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today’s Church
• Simply Church
• Revolution
• Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices
• Transforming Children Into Spiritual Champions: Why Children Should Be Your Church’s #1 Priority
• The Seven Faith Tribes: Who They Are, What They Believe, and Why They Matter
• Revolutionary Parenting: What the Research Shows Really Works
• The Power of Vision: Discover and Apply God’s Vision for Your Life & Ministry
• An Army of Ordinary People
• Getting Started: A Practical Guide to House Church Planting
• Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens
• Organic Leadership: Leading Naturally Right Where You Are
• Search & Rescue: Becoming a Disciple Who Makes a Difference
• Nexus: The World House Church Movement Reader
• The Global House Church Movement
• The Church Comes Home
• Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity
• Jesus Has Left the Building
• Megashift: Igniting Spiritual Power
• The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church
• Houses that Change the World
• The House Church Book: Rediscover the Dynamic, Organic, Relational, Viral Community Jesus Started
• Houses that Change the World
• Starting a House Church

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That’s part of the advantage of the internet, which enables travel free distant learning.

You Can Double Your Groups Webinar

Most all churches have small group ministry or Sunday school program.  Yet many of these groups are closed to newcomers, or haven’t grown in size.

We all know the power of exponential multiplication.

• 1 group grows to 2
• 2 groups grow to 4
• 4 groups grow to 8
• 8 to 16 and so on.

Yet we also haven’t really seen that happen in our lifetime.  The multiplication system often breaks down after the first split.

Josh Hunt has a system that churches can use that breaks out of the cycle of aborted multiplication.

He has written about it, and as a pastor, he has used it, and has recorded video testimony of several churches that have implemented his You Can Double material.

Who is Josh Hunt?

Josh is nationally known for his ability to lead churches to double their small group attendance.

Josh Hunt is the new pastor of Salem Baptist Church in Salem New Mexico. Hunt has been a Minister of Education in addition to consulting nationwide. He also writes Sunday School helps in a format he calls Good Question which he publishes on the Internet to correspond with two of Lifeway’s curriculum outlines.

Hunt is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Wayland University. Hunt’s a creative thinker and an energetic speaker whose passion is to see people come to know and enjoy God. He has spoken at some of the leading churches in America, has authored 7 books and produced 7 video series.

Josh joins the EvangelismCoach Webinar series to discuss practical ways you can DOUBLE OUR GROUP SIZE so our churches will grow.

The Lesson Vault

Josh has written and continues to produce question sheets.  You can purchase a subscription as an individual, or an annual subscription for your church.

• Purchase the LessonVault subscription
• You can see the Table of Contents to all the Vault Lessons at www.joshhunt.com/sunday-school.htm
• The method of discount mentioned in the webinar is no longer available

Books

Josh has written several good books.

The one featured in our webinar is You Can Double Your Class in Two Years or Less.

Order your copy direct from Amazon.

Prepare your church to receive visitors

As you prepare for your fall programs, is your first impressions ministry in order?  Buy and download my book How to Welcome Church Visitors.

You can start putting those ideas into place immediately after download.

Other Books Mentioned:

• Sticky Church (Leadership Network Innovation Series)
• Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community
• Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can, Too
• Making Vision Stick (Leadership Library)
• Unleashing the Ideavirus

Downloads

Webinar Slides Josh Hunt Double Your Groups

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Connections

• Main Website: JoshHunt.com
• Twitter: JoshHuntNM
• Ning Site: SundaySchoolNing (no longer available)

Replay

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Video

Note: The breathing over Josh disappears about a few minutes into the webinar, I had a supersensitive microphone.

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Podcast

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How can you spiritually prepare yourself and the community for your outreach?

You are probably thinking:

1. Planning meetings.
2. Publicity
3. Hoping for good weather. . .:)

Don’t forget prayer for community outreach.

Prayer is the key to preparing yourself and the community for your upcoming outreach.

The practice of walking the neighborhood while praying is still a practice that people are learning and discovering.

In this FREE online webinar, evangelist and certified Intentional Community Evangelism trainer Darrel Davis of Foundation Ministries will share practical steps to

• Praying for your outreach events.
• Prayerwalking the community where you live.

Darrell Davis, will join me, Chris Walker, of www.Evangelismcoach.org in discussing this strategy as part of your evangelism outreach to your community

Books on Prayer Walking:

• A House of Prayer by John Franklin, Nashville, TN: Lifeway, 2005
• And the Place Was Shaken: How to Lead a Powerful Prayer Meeting, John Franklin
• The life-changing power of prayer by TW Hunt, 2001
• Prayer-Walking: Praying On-Site With Insight by Steve Hawthorne and Graham Kendrick
• Prayer Walking: A Journey of Faith
• Follow Me: Becoming a Lifestyle Prayerwalker
• Follow Me : Lessons for Becoming a Prayer Walker

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Webinar Replay Video:

Romans Road

• Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God.”
• Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
• Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
• Romans 10:9-10 “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
• Romans 10:13 “For whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”

Read more on gospel scripts like this:

Evangelism Scripts

1. 6 Ways to Mess Up Witnessing to Strangers
2. 10 practical ways of sharing your faith
3. How to use a gospel script
4. Video Illustration of the Bridge Diagram
5. Discussing the Bridge Illustration
6. The Big Story – Improving the Bridge Illustration
7. How to Use the Bridge Illustration
8. How to Practice a Gospel Presentation
9. Do versus Done
10. Two Challenges to Fixed Gospel Presentations (Scripts)
11. Gospel Script: FAITH
12. What is THE BIBLICAL WAY to do evangelism?
13. Using Gospel Scripts
14. New EvangeCube for Kids – Evangelism Script

PrayerWalking Testimony

PrayerWalkking MP3 Podcast Audio Replay

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In this FREE online webinar, author and church growth consultant Bill Tenny-Brittian of 21st Century Strategies Inc will share practical steps to

• Overcome your fear of messing up.
• Find confidence to explain the value of your faith.
• Talk about your faith journey, walk, or conversion experience

Bill Tenny-Brittian, the senior editor of Net Results magazine, the nation’s oldest and boldest Church Growth and Evangelism magazine, and will join me, Chris Walker, of www.EvangelismCoach.org in discussing this part of his new book: Hitchhiker’s Guide To Evangelism.
Thanks to Bill Tenny-Brittian for an awesome webinar on Hitchhikers Guide to Evangelism.

HitchHiker’s Guide to Evangelism Webinar Resources

https://www.evangelismcoach.org/hitchhikers-guide-follow-up

There were some technical glitches right at the beginning (about 90 seconds in. Recording resumed after fix)

HitchHiker’s Guide to Evangelism Webinar Recording

HitchHiker’s Guide to Evangelism Webinar Podcast

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