and the survey says

Top 13 Reasons that Unchurched People Choose a Church
(research conducted by Ranier)

90% - Pastor/Preaching
88% - Doctrines
49% - Friendliness of Members
42% - Other Issues
41% - Someone Church Witnessed to Me
38% - Family Member
37% - Sensed God’s Presence/Atmosphere of Church
25% - Relationship Other than Family Member
25% - Sunday School Class
25% - Children’s/Youth Ministry
12% - Other Groups/Ministries
11% - Worship Style/Music
7% - Location

Top 9 Reasons that Church-Attenders Choose a Church
(research conducted by the Barna Group in 1999)

58% - Doctrine/Theology
53% - People Caring for Each Other
52% - Preaching
45% - Friendliness
45% - Children’s Programs
43% - Helping the Poor
36% - Denomination
35% - Like the Pastor
26% - Sunday School

Top 6 Things that Keep the Formerly Unchurched Active in the Church
(research conducted by Ranier)

62% - Ministry Involvement
55% - Sunday School
54% - Obedience to God
49% - Fellowship of Members
38% - Pastor/Preaching
14% - Worship Services

The statistics speak for themselves. Overall, doctrine, the pastor and his preaching, and the friendliness and fellowship of the congregation are the most influential qualities.

I See It

One of the main points to reaching people is through strategically planning to do so. The plan is merely the how. It is the execution of the plan that gets things done. From the view point of vision we must see in our hearts and mind what we want the results to be.

I can see our church reaching a lot of people. I can see our little sanctuary packed with new people finding Christ and growing in Christ. I can see a church building filled with believers worshiping Jesus with everything they have within them.

Imagine this as our future church schedule of services

Saturday night worship 6:00pm
Sunday morning worship services 9:00 am 11:00 am and 1:00 pm

Coming soon a new worship center!

I see it! can you see it?

focus

FOCUS
Follow
One
Course
Until
Successful

Through out the years we get many touches to get people to our church. Think on these.

• delivering values to people
• relationships are the keys
• One message but many methods –finding common ground to see some saved
• What does the community think of your church
• vision-where you want to be in the future
• mission-stating how you plan to get to where you want to be
• branding-stating your uniqueness.
• don’t be flexible be fluid
• stating we are here?
• we need a vision image