In the life cycle of a church, vision ignites everything. Church planters have a passion for reaching people far from God in their communities, towns and cities. Cast vision for souls now. Start before you’re completely ready. Communicate urgency to energize, deputize and mobilize your established congregation to fulfill that vision. Casting vision will net you support and momentum.

As we look to the fall and the potential of limited restrictions, churches are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This will be different than the reopening that we’ve been accustomed to. This will be, in essence, a fresh start; something from which to build upon. It’s for this reason that church leaders are looking at relaunching this fall.

The simple truth is that strategy is what takes us from where we are (point A) to where we want to be (point B).

Go through each one of these items and ask yourselves how are we doing on this? Close the gaps. Remember, intentionality is the key to becoming a welcoming church.

Fall is a great time for your church to engage the community. People are getting back into their routines. The church can position itself as a place of help and hope in this season. Here are 5 community outreach ideas your church can do this fall.

Here is how you can build a community profile to really understand who your neighbour is and how you can reach them.

Imagine if 75% of your church were actively engaged in the discipling of pre-Christians and Christians? What a day that would be.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single purchase. Cue “The Big Spend” and churches across Canada championing local businesses on July 25th. The big idea came from one of our PAOC credential holders, Tim Schindel.

The average person has no idea what next steps to take to connect into this congregation and what the destination (being a part of the church) might look like. It’s up to us as leaders to create clear and obvious next steps for them.

We don’t want to create any barriers for people to come to Jesus Christ and we want to do our best to be a church that is in the community and for the community.

What better way to spend the rare, rainy summer day than with one of the following five page turners. Read at the risk of a greater love for God and neighbour.

The church has an amazing opportunity to be a voice of hope in the midst despair. A voice of peace in the midst of chaos. A voice of credible faith in the midst of fear. However, you need to get outside of your church and actually speak to your city.

It’s never fun to realize that there were things that you thought were working, actually weren’t working. The recent pandemic exposed weaknesses and brought out realizations amongst churches and church leaders all over the world.

The paid advertisement world of social media is becoming a necessity. Social media algorithms will only allow 30% - 40% of the content coming from your church to reach its’ intended audience. If you want to reach more people, you’ll need to pay.

Some churches have reported that engagement in their online services has decreased over the past few weeks. We all want as many people engaging with us as often as possible. Here are five ways to increase online engagement.

Looking for ways to still connect with your community during this Covid-19 shutdown? Everybody wants to leave their homes but can’t. I know I have been looking for any excuse to get away from my computer and out of my living room. So how can the church utilize the space we have without people being allowed to come inside the building?

Whatever size church you lead, connection has never been easier or more important. The great thing about communicating is you don’t need to monkey around with an easy way to connect. Mailchimp takes care of that for you.

Community connection in a crisis is crucial, especially for communities of faith. Most, if not all Canadian churches, will be finding ways to host online services, immediately. Never before has connection been so available to so many. How providential. Here is one way to branch out connection for everyone in your congregation.