Posts Tagged ‘visitors’

evangelism-outreach Article
October 2, 2008

Invite a Friend

This past June, my son turned four. We had a birthday party for him and invited all of his friends (well maybe not all, but a lot) to his ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
October 22, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: Looking Back

Many of you were with us through our entire series on Church From a Visitor’s Perspective. Others of you haven’t checked it out yet. For those of you who missed ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
October 12, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: The Strangers Among Us

This is part 9 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
October 8, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: A Visit from the Mystery Worshipper

This is part 8 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
October 4, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: One is the Loneliest Number

This is part 7 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
October 1, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: I Must Be in the Front Row!

This is part 6 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
September 25, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: Verbose Nomenclature

This is part 5 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
September 19, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: Watch your Language!

This is part 4 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
September 17, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: The Welcoming Paradox

This is part 3 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post here to get a better understanding of David’s experience ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
September 13, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: An Embarrassing Problem

This is part 2 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
September 11, 2007

Church from a Visitor’s Perspective

This is part 1 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. Here’s a little of my back-story: I was a church planter for a number of years, ...

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reviews Article
January 12, 2006

Simply Strategic Growth

Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan are on staff at Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. Neither of them are nationally known, top 10 writers or speakers (yet)—they’re just two guys ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
August 25, 2005

Multiple Church Services

Question: When should churches add another service? Answer: When the pews are full. Wrong. At least according to Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan of Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. In their Rev ...

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demographicsresearch Article
August 12, 2005

Integrating Visitors into Your Church

There’s been plenty of discussion on our Reasons to Use Direct Mail post. One of the comments hinted at some research about visitors and I followed up with the commenter, ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
April 4, 2005

Skipping Church

Canadian blogger and pastor Jordon Cooper skipped church yesterday prompting an entry about the Sunday morning competition churches face. For some folks Sunday is the only day off, and getting ...

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