By: Bill T-B

Bill T-B — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:11:17 +0000

Frank, my response became to long for a comment … see the Follow-up post part three.

By: Frank Shope

Frank Shope — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:22:53 +0000

Bill,
Our church is in the middle of trying to define this very crisis. We have a fifty year old church in as old of a neighborhood. We are losing our older members faster than we are regenerating newer members. We have discussed numerous options for approaching our Evangelism techniques and agree that we need to be more intentional in our visitor embracing. Do you have any specific recommendations on how best to do this from a congregational perspective? We use pew pads, and try to follow up after they make a second visit to us by dropping by their house with a treat, but we don’t have immediate pastoral visits or contacts like you mention in this article. Anything you can provide as tried and true would be helpful. Thanks for your time and help.
Frank Shope
Administrative Board Chairman
Belle Meade United Methodist Church
Nashville, TN

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By: Bill T-B

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