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Office Hours: Volunteer Recruiting Best Practices & Reaching New People

Welcome to this month's Office Hours episode. This month Rich is taking on your questions about building volunteer teams, and reaching people who might not normally attend your services. Leslie Moffat, administrative pastor, Celebration Church in Brantford, Ontario, Canada: “For churches with multiple services, do you recommend the same volunteers...
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Do This to Connect More Guests to Your Church with Greg Curtis

Thank you for joining this episode of the unSeminary podcast. We’re speaking with Greg Curtis, the Director of Assimilation at Eastside Church in Orange County, California. We’re talking with Greg today about the importance of developing a ministry-wide strategy for assimilation that is used throughout your church. Second-nature strategies. //...
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5 Best Practices For Using Invite Cards At Your Church

We live in a digital age, so why are we bothering to talk about paper invitations? Can these little cards that announce upcoming series at your church still be an effective tool in the here and now? Haven't we moved beyond mass broadcasting to use platforms like Facebook to get...
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7 Best Practices of First-time Guest Gifts at Your Church

Are you leveraging your first-time guest gifts effectively enough to move people from being guests to fully connected members of your church? I hope so, because this is an important piece of the connection timeframe; in fact, it's a critical point in the eight phases of moving anonymous guests towards...