Does Your Church Need an Online Campus?
…Chicago whether to put our weekend service online or not. Some were concerned that this would decrease our weekend attendance; others were concerned about protecting our brand and that our…
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How Best to Use Overflow Worship Space on Easter
…and have a quality worship experience. Increased worship attendance on Easter Sunday requires some churches to set up spaces beyond the sanctuary for overflow seating. Sometimes this is space just…
A Keystone Habit for Our Time
…to church growth. Indeed, in some denominations and regions, Sunday school attendance exceeded worship attendance until the mid-20th century. Instead of writing off the Sunday school as a relic of…
What You Told Us About Your Summer Worship
…or more worship attendance), 45 percent were mid-size (126-349 attendance), and 10 percent were small (125 or fewer attendance). Among the large and mid-size churches, about half made changes in…
The Multisite Church Movement
…is much slower. The average attendance at satellite sites across surveyed churches is 361. Most report they need 100-150 people in attendance to be self-sustaining. Finances, Facilities, and Leadership The…
What About the Second Pastors in New Congregations?
…Second pastors see themselves as different from their predecessors in personality and approach to ministry, but attendance is greater if the two pastors are more similar. Second pastors report a…
A Stewardship Intervention Counters Fundraiser Dependence
…as well as a slight increase of attendance in morning worship, which is usually well attended. Two months after the intervention, there has been a steady increase in attendance and…
5 Keys to Great Online Worship Hospitality
…online viewers. If it continues to happen, the likelihood of high online attendance will plateau and decline. We started Impact Church in a public school where we did not have…
The Problem with Being Spiritual but Not Religious
…for declining participation and attendance. The issues are deeper than this. It’s helpful to step back and see how personal religion is part of a larger trend to personalize the…
Online Church is Your New Front Door
…in until they muster the courage to jump in through physical attendance. But discussion about the online church is too often binary. Church online is good or bad. Wise or…
