What would it look like for your church to grow by 40%?
Church outreach is a very important part of any growing church. The mantra from the movie “Field of Dreams” -- “If you build it they will come.” -- is not necessarily true for growing a church. Church outreach is more than a building. In fact, church outreach is more than any one idea or program. If you want to have sustained growth, you need an arsenal of great ideas. My ebook, “Inflicting Positive Change In Your Outreach Ministry”, is filled with several ideas that will work together to help you develop a specific plan for your church that God might want to use to help you reach out to your community.
As a Pastor, I know how important it is to get visitors to come to your church. How can you have church outreach without any visitors? Trust me, it is difficult. But you already know that. Isn’t that why you are here? I’m glad you came. Let me share my story with you.
I was an energetic young Pastor of 23 when I went to a small community in Ohio. It was literally between Hicksville and Payne. None the less, that is where the Lord had led me. He gave me a heart for that rural community. I really wanted to reach out to that community with some church outreach ideas I had. I was told that the church had been running around 60 people. However, there was a hitch. The church already had a pretty bleak reputation in the community, so I did have my work cut out for me. But God blessed my efforts and when I left that church about 4 years later we had several Sundays we were breaking the 100 barrier.
After leaving that church I went to another rural church in southern Indiana. I was also told that church had been running around 60. I’m a glutton for punishment I guess. Would you like to know how rural this church was? The first time I tried to go to it, I got lost. We even had a nice cemetery in our back yard.... and our side yard.... and in our front yard. Now that is rural. Again, I put my church outreach ideas to work and God blessed it. In just 3 1/2 years we were running between 90-110.
Fast forward a few years, now as a seasoned pastor, I want to share my church outreach ideas with you. Church outreach is not rocket science. However, you could be the most gifted church leader out there, but if you don’t have the right ideas to use for your church outreach ministry, then you’re dead in the water. So take advantage of this ebook today.
