Approach for Steps to Growth

Goal is for the end result to be holistic & inclusive.  Trying to tease out and address the systems that need help and then to fix them by engaging the right people, with the right skills in the right roles to go the right thing.

Using Pentecost Sunday as a Re-Welcoming Day / Second Push

Besides an early target for using Holy Week for potential kick start to welcoming efforts the next major day in the church Calendar we could sync up and do a second outreach using the lessons learned would be Pentecost.

Pentecost (May 23rd) could be our big push to get Welcoming done right and do a real marketing campaign with follow-up survey.  Format could be to focus on that Family Reunion, Re-welcoming / Revitalizing the Church / Raise the Spirits.  Not sure if we ar near any specific anniversary year or not but that too could be a theme/message.

Draft Presentation - VERY Early

Goals? Rough, rough ideas...

What are the goals of this project?

• "Lift the Spirit" of the current congregation
• Increase Fellowship and sense of community
• Retain, Renew and Re-engage membership and lapsed members
• Encourage, Empower and Engage new members/attendees
• Grow membership
• Grow stewardship/tithing
• Impact on the community (more through the Outreach side)
• Develop a solution - software, people, process, and best practices that can be replicated/shared