Often, churches are stuck because the leader doesn’t feel the need to learn new skills, which is the height of arrogance. We must be learning new skills continually because we live in an ever-changing world. Rick Warren is famous for saying, “The day we stop growing, we’re dead in the water.” There are myriad places for us to gain new skills, but it begins with a decision to stop “doing what we’re doing” and get serious about our growth. Think about these statistics from the American Booksellers Association: 80 percent of all Americans did not read a book this year. … Read More
Getting Your Outreach Working on All 8 Cylinders
Calvary Fellowship started as a home Bible study with five people. The most daunting task we had early on was figuring out how to let people know we existed. I made the mistake early on of putting all our hopes in one method rather than using different means to communicate who we were as a church and, of course, the message of the Gospel. I see churches make this mistake all the time. They either put eggs in the Easter basket (pun intended) thinking this Superbowl of Sunday services will attract enough new people to keep the church growing throughout … Read More
Developing an Outreach Calendar
We are all influenced by the calendar. We all eat turkey on Thanksgiving, candy on Halloween and Hershey’s kisses on Valentine’s Day. The calendar affects all of us, so instead of fighting the calendar, why not cooperate with it? I believe the calendar can be our greatest ally as we plan our preaching for each year. Then again, what’s the alternative? If you fight the calendar, I promise you will lose every time. So what how do I cooperate with the calendar and use it to my advantage? Here are six dates that will help you plan your preaching throughout … Read More
Giving Kids the Tools to Invite Friends
One of the core values of our Evangelism Ninja coaching program is to mobilize your congregation. This means giving everyone in your church the tools needed to invite friends and family to church. With Easter approaching, I thought I’d share one of the tools we created for the kids in our Children’s Ministry to invite their friends and classmates to our Easter Services. This looks just like the birthday cards that kids give to each other throughout the year. The inside of this card has all of the information for our Easter services. It talks about what parents and kids … Read More
A Direct Mail Autopsy
Most church direct mail is horrible. Sorry to be so blunt, but it’s true. In fact, a while ago I received a direct mail piece from a church at my home (which made me happy by the way. I love seeing churches in my community reaching out.), but the piece had so many problems it’s no wonder why it got terrible results. So let’s do a direct mail autopsy, shall we? What was wrong with the mailing? There were 5 causes of death in this mail piece… 1. It wasn’t in English – (even though I speak Spanish fluently, English … Read More
What Greg Surratt Taught Me about Preaching on Easter
index Hey Pastor! I am so excited about our Double on Easter event on February 12th at 1PM EST! We have a great faculty of 15 speakers who are going to be opening their bag of tricks and sharing from their depth of experience on how to to reach more people on Easter. One of the speakers I am most excited about is Greg Surratt. Greg is the founding and Senior Pastor of Seacoast Church, a dynamic church with 10 growing campuses! Greg is also the president of the Association of Related Churches (ARC) and works with hundreds of church … Read More
Over $250 of content for just $1
index Hi Pastor, For just $1 you can get the Coaching You Need to Develop Your Launch Strategy. If after test driving our Church Planting Ninja coaching, you feel like it’s not for you, just send us an email and cancel You still get to keep the Coaching… AND the 4 Bonuses: Sample Church Planting Strategy Plans – Church planting strategies from other church plants for you to read through. Notice what catches your eye and what is communicated to potential donors, partners, and team members. Launch Strategy Plan – An efficient launch strategy that communicate important information about the … Read More
If I Could Plant My Church All Over Again
index Hey Pastor, When I came to Miami to plant Calvary, I didn’t know anyone here. I had my Bible in one hand and my acoustic guitar. It was like the makings of a Bon Jovi song. Haha! But over the last 13 years we’ve been blessed and we’ve reached thousands with the Gospel. Not only that, we’ve planted churches in some of the nation’s hardest areas and seen amazing results. Because of this, church planters ask me regularly about how to launch large and start reaching their community from day 1. That’s the reason we’ve created Church Planting Ninja. … Read More
My Big Announcement
index Dear Pastor! Happy New Year! I’m writing for all the church planters out there. So if you aren’t a church planter, this email won’t be of particular interest to you. So if you’re a church planter, keep reading… I’ve worked with hundreds of pastors over the last 4 years and the one group who has consistently asked us or a program designed for them is church planters. Well, you asked…and today we’re answering! Let me introduce you to Church Planting Ninja… My good friend Trinity Jordan (who is also a church planter and author) and I have created a … Read More
Look how many people showed up!
index Hi Pastor! Check out how packed our auditorium was last night! In the Last 2 days we’ve seen more people come to Jesus at Calvary Fellowship than ever in the Christmas season and we are believing that tonight will be our biggest Christmas Eve ever! How does this happen? It’s because we are extremely intentional about evangelism and outreach. Bob and I know that the very same thing can happen in your Church not just on days like Christmas and Easter but every single Sunday in 2014! This is why we’ve put together this New Year’s Outreach Package, with … Read More
