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.

Tools: Online Project Management

Project Management / Tracking

• Basecamp
• Zoho.com/Projects
• Quickbase
• Workamijig
• Work Zone

One of the areas that we might think we can do without is some kind of project management tracking -- especially if the software purchased looks fully functional.  Problem even in that case is one of the goals is to document the steps and experience so that they can be shared and replicated.  Gannt charts to block moving/missed deadlines is also key when so many of the moving pieces are being done by volunteers.

Importance of Facebook, Twitter, Texting, Email and Online Calendaring

Besides voice calls and bulletins -- what are the ways people are communicating and the church needs to move towards communicating in:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Texting
• Email
• Online Calendar Updates

Both the church site and the ChMS/CRM tool need to be moving to be more inclusive of the above methods of communication and preferences for certain users / use cases.  

At a minimum new content added to web site auto posted/syndicated to Facebook and Twitter.  Email groups and email campaign management are all key.

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