EVANGELISM RESOURCE LIST (all items are pdf files unless noted differently)
- Best Practices for Growing Congregations (ppt presentation prepared by the Rev. Phil Hirsch)
- Video of talk on this subject from 2014 Together in Mission event
Best Practices of Growing Congregations
“For the last four years of my ministry I’ve had the opportunity to visit other congregations all over the synod and across the United States. I’ve seen some really, really great things… and a few things that were pretty bad.” Want to hear what Pr. Hirsch has learned?
Shared during the 2015 Growing Church Workshops
- DC Metro Church connection plan
“What Phyllis Tickle says is true, every 500 years the church has a kind of rummage sale and we take everything out and ask: Do we still want to keep this? Does it still help us talk about the gospel and the law in a way that is helpful to others?” – from Best Practices ppt presentation - DC Metro Church welcome card
- Good News (Evangelism)
- Person of Peace
- Sample Plan for Follow Up
- Sample: Welcome Email
- Tables for All
- Third Time Visitor Email
- Sample: Thanks for Worshiping with Us
- Website Recommendations for Congregations
- Also see “Does this website make me look phat?” – Staff Insights Blog post link (7/10/14)
Also available
- Facility focus: Sample Facility Survey (doc file)
- Facility focus: Seeing Our Building As Others See Us (ppt slides)
- Hospitality Checklist (rtf file)
- Secret Worship Visitor Self Study (rtf file)
