Summer is a popular time of the year for people to move and these folks are going to be looking for a home church in their new community. You’ll be seeing many more people in transition coming to your church for the very first time this summer! The pre-service is your first opportunity to interact with everyone who sets foot on your church’s … 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
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
How to Get Information From Your First Time Guests (Assimilation)
After my bestselling book Fusion came out and thousands of churches have been helped with The Assimilation Seminar and Intensive over the last few years, in some circles I’ve become known as a bit of an “assimilation guru.” Now, I don’t know about the “guru” thing, but I do love the Assimilation process! I love knowing that the church I … Read More
How to Keep More First Time Guests at Your Church (one pastor’s tips)
I received an email recently from Jeff Rogers, a member of my Tele-Coaching Network and Pastor of Canastota (NY) Church of the Nazarene. He took the time to share some great news about their Assimilation System – In just a few months, they’ve increased their Retention Rate (the number of guests they keep) from 1 out of 16 to an … Read More
First Time Guests that Can’t Wait to Come Back
The Church Leader Insights team and I love to read your email about how God is using what we do to help you lead your churches and reach the unchurched. Here’s one such email I received recently from Pastor Al Marks and asked if I could share with you: I have to tell you a story from Sunday. A young … Read More
Monday Proflections – September 15, 2008
Here’s what’s happening with Church Leader Insights and me this week that may be of interest to you: Monday – I’ll be in the Journey office all day working with our follow-up and strategic teams. I’ll also be putting the final touches on the promotion for our October/November series entitled “Financial Peace” based on the Dave Ramsey series. Tuesday – … Read More
Monday Proflections August 11, 2008
Here’s what’s happening with Church Leader Insights and me this week that may be of interest to you: Monday – I’m in Phoenix this week. Good news, the high temps are only going to be 105. I was here the same week last year and the high temps were 110+! Tuesday – Watch your email for the August issue of … Read More