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1. Why Church Outreaches Often Fail ...: ... ers in their congregations instead of growing numbers for the kingdom, they soon start to resort to secular outreaches and end up disappointed. Over the past several years, I've been a part of many diff ...; Created on 14 June 2021
2. 3 Tips on Selecting a Missions Partner: I average one about every other day. Someone wants our church to become a mission partner. The requests come through different means—email, in-person, lunch meetings, over coffee, phone calls and social ...; Created on 06 December 2019
3. Rick Warren: Why Your Church Should Initiate This Powerful Ministry: ... ve been through the program at our church—70% of them came from outside the church. It's by far the greatest outreach our church has seen. More than 35,000 churches now have Celebrate Recovery ministr ...; Created on 19 November 2019
4. Great Questions to Help You Better Engage Your Church Members: I've made it my practice for years to have significant conversations with just about everyone I meet. If you have an open mind and humility, you can learn from anyone. The more people I've talked to, the ...; Created on 08 October 2019
5. What a Good Church Does for a Lonely Christian: Robert Caro had a problem. He was researching and writing an in-depth biography of Robert Moses, the highly acclaimed "master builder" of New York City, who lived 1888 to 1981. Originally, Caro thought ...; Created on 17 September 2019
6. Church-Planting Shift: Focus on This Group Instead of Nominal Christians: ... s changing numbers are essential to understand the future of outreach and evangelism. The challenge is that most of our church-planting efforts target the fastest shrinking segment. We are focusing on tho ...; Created on 15 August 2019
7. How to Turn Your Church's Summer Months Into the Best of the Year: If you've been a church leader very long, you know that the summer months can be some of the toughest months for churches financially. In fact, FellowshipOne, the church-software company, did a study a ...; Created on 08 May 2018
8. Autopsy of a Deceased Outreach Ministry ...: ... He knew most of them well. His comments still ring in my mind: "Almost none of the 250 churches I serve have an ongoing outreach ministry in the communities they are supposed to serve. A few of them thin ...; Created on 25 April 2018
9. Los Angeles Church Uses This Unexpected Food to Reach Its Community for Christ: ... and catered to celebrities. Sushi was never considered a "poor man's meal" —until now. Pastor Steve Cha of Grace City LA told TogetherLA that the recently held "Sushi Outreach Night" was never part of ...; Created on 08 February 2018
10. Don't Fall for These 10 Common Mistakes Churches Make at Christmastime: Christmas is a wonderful time of the year. Some would even say it's the most wonderful time of the year. While it still has its wonderment, Christmastime has a tendency to be stressful as well—especially ...; Created on 04 December 2017
11. 5 Effective Strategies for Following Up With Your Fall Festival Visitors: Churches across the country are hosting fall festivals this time of year. In most churches, one of the goals of the event is to reach unchurched families in the community. Fall festival is definitely a ...; Created on 26 October 2017
12. How to Take Advantage of Social Media to Reach Your City: ... be embracing, yet many churches are simply overlooking. Ed Stetzer, executive director of The Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College and columnist at Outreach Magazine, shared the follow ...; Created on 07 September 2017
13. For Leaders, Renewal and Transformation Require This: So many churches today are limited in their outreach because they have no power. They go through the motions because they have pastors and leaders with no power who do not grow, bear no fruit and, many ...; Created on 22 June 2016
14. Why Impacting Communities Should Be a Church Priority: Growing a church and impacting a community are not mutually exclusive. In fact, these two complex endeavors are highly interrelated. However, a strategy to grow your church may or may not have an impact ...; Created on 03 June 2016
15. 9 Things That Have Replaced Traditional Outreach in Churches ...: When I began my journey as a church consultant in the 1980s, I had one tried-and-true approach to determine the outreach effectiveness of a church. I would simply ask to see the records of the number of ...; Created on 20 May 2016
16. Here's a Quick Way to Become an Ineffective Leader: I was talking to a leader this week who has come under fire from a group in his church who is opposed to the change he and his team are making. I won't go into the details, but it's a change about 99 percent ...; Created on 04 January 2016
17. How to Think Beyond Local Ministry: God is a global God. He has always cared about the entire world. John 3:16 says, "God so loved the world ..." From the beginning he has wanted family members from every nation he created. The Bible says, ...; Created on 14 December 2015
18. 9 Ways to Supersize Church Outreach ...: ... Most people try church because someone recommended it or they were invited by a friend. An effective outreach strategy always includes your plan for equipping your church members to be recommenders an ...; Created on 29 October 2015
19. 9 Reasons Why We Must Connect Our Churches With Cities: Even if you have no interest in urban settings and ministries, I plead with you to continue to read this post. We are called to get the gospel to all peoples of the world (Matt. 28:18-20), and we will ...; Created on 03 September 2015