The Journey Church’s newest location in Boca Raton, FL just celebrated it’s First Birthday. While we have seen tremendous numbers in our first year of New Believers and First Time Guests, one of the most excited elements is how many people have gone through the Membership Class AND are now fully engaged in the church in such a short period … Read More
Assimilation Tip: How to WOW First Time Kids – PLUS “Fusion Live Event” in Florida!
I have an announcement about two great events coming up in the next 2 weeks but first: How to WOW First Time Kids: Growing churches have learned the importance of taking great care of their first time guests but today I want to challenge you even further. If you have implemented my Assimilation Seminar tactics, you are seeing a great … Read More
New Eyes For A New Year – What Are New People Seeing At Your Church?
2012 is here, and this year’s “MUST HAVE” resource is The Assimilation Seminar! Here’s why: Every week, God entrusts our churches with First Time Guests, and your preparation and capacity to be a good steward of those guests will largely determine how quickly your church will grow this year. Since these people and families will be attending your church at … Read More
How to Responsibly Handle Your Church People’s Vital Information
As you may know, one of the hallmarks of my Assimilation System – for integrating newcomers into the life of your church – is the weekly use of a Connection Card. This is an information card that is filled out each week by everyone in attendance and includes contact info on one side and next steps and sign-ups on the … Read More
How You Can Get More People to Go Through Membership Class
I’ve written before about how I believe church membership is Biblical AND practical. Unfortunately lots of churches do a poor job of raising its value to the people who attend each week. In fact, I often get emails from pastors who are struggling to get people to go through their membership class and take that next step of commitment to … Read More
How to Keep More Guests and Model Generosity
Since writing the book Fusion I get a lot of questions about assimilation and how to get more first time guests to return to your church and ultimately become members. One question I get frequently involves the handwritten note and gift that I recommend you send to every first time guest. There’s nothing like a handwritten note to really show people … Read More
How to Keep More New People – New Assimilation Coaching Network
It’s Tommy Duke here, Community Pastor at The Journey Church, VP of Training for Nelson Searcy and Church Leader Insights, and leader of the brand new Assimilation Tele-Coaching Network that starts in less than two weeks (Tuesday, October 18). Today I’d like to share with you the number one reason most churches aren’t effectively connecting newcomers into the life of … Read More
Grow Your Church by Keeping More Guests – New Assimilation Coaching Network
If you read this blog on a regular basis, you already know that I love the Assimilation System. It’s the system that helps get new people connected and it just so happens to be the quickest system to help grow your church. My Community Pastor at The Journey and VP of Training at Church Leader Insights, Tommy Duke, is leading … Read More
It’s On the Website, Duh! (Customer Service)
Yesterday I had a question about an event I’m scheduled to attend, so I emailed the info@ address on the Web site to ask my question. Much to my surprise, the response was almost immediate. So I excitedly clicked open the email only to read: <The answer to your question> is on our Web site, Sincerely, info@conferencewhosenameiwonttellyou.com What? Is that … Read More
Fusion Webinar TOMORROW – Last Chance for Over $160.00 in FREE Bonuses!
I’m so pumped about The Fusion Webinar! It’s TOMORROW (Tuesday, July 12) from 2:00pm – 3:30pm Eastern time and just for participating you will receive over $160.00 in Free Bonuses! This 90-minute webinar on Assimilation will add to the bottom line growth of your church by helping you connect more new people quicker. I’ll teach you the Assimilation principles that have … Read More