50 Ways to Increase Worship Attendance
…Invite church members to make a written commitment to grow one step toward faithful attendance. Include a commitment to faithful worship attendance as part of a holistic annual stewardship commitment….
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Measuring Church Numerical Growth is Not as Easy as it Seems
…in attendance than they did a generation ago. First Church has decreased in weekly attendance by 35 percent in the past 20 years. Also, the size of the average household…
Planning for Attendance Seasons in the Church Year
We are used to thinking of the seasons of the Christian year such as Advent, Christmastide, Epiphany, Lent. There are also attendance seasons that follow common patterns across congregations. It…
Avoiding a Summer Drop in Worship Attendance
…Told Us About Your Summer Worship by Lovett H. Weems, Jr. Overflow: Increase Worship Attendance & Bear More Fruit by Tom Berlin and Lovett H. Weems, Jr. Congregational Attendance Profile…
Ways to Improve Attendance of Current Members
…commitment to grow one step toward faithful attendance. Include a commitment to faithful worship attendance as part of a holistic annual stewardship commitment. Keep a record of attendance and monitor…
Building Attendance through Special Focus Sundays
…one with questions such as: Is there still energy around this occasion? Is the attendance well above our normal attendance? Is it still appropriate as a special focus for the…
Why Attendance and Revenue Figures Don’t Tell the Whole Story
Worship attendance and revenue figures don’t tell the whole story in gauging your church’s effectiveness. Rich Birch suggests some novel indicators that can reveal growth and engagement — from how…
The Worship Recession
…attendance. As I explained in my article “No Shows” in the current issue of Christian Century, many people assume that there has been a steady decline in worship attendance for…
New Findings about American Congregations
…a congregation’s style of worship or adding a new service tends to improve attendance, and there is a clear affinity found between contemporary worship and higher attendance. However, the quality…
Take an Annual Church Health Checkup
…attendance. Worship attendance shows the “heartbeat” of the church. Review attendance relative to previous years, and look to understand rises and falls over the year and over multiple years. Also,…
