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How can a small, liberal church attract new members?
Our church is small (about 80 members), liberal and open-minded (we take the Bible seriously but not always literally). We don't have a lot of money for advertising.
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Brainstorm Info
| Creator: | opendoorucc |
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| Created: | about 1 year ago |
| Activity: | about 1 year ago |
| Users: | 12 |
| Ideas: | 14 |
Top Brainstormers
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Cook for the people! Have a "Five Loaves and 2 Fish" day where members of the congregation "feed" the people of the community (as best they can with the resources they have).
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Preach Christ - he's been drawing people together for years
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Have a Celebration with the help of the congregation in supplies and food once a month to your service. If they don't come for the service they will definitely come for the food then be their friend and get to know them.
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Figure out a mission focus--specialize in the church's ministry.
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Sponsor stuff in the community
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Street preachers to confront fundamentalists!
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Bake Sale, Fund raiser for Africa, or nearby family in need.
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start social groups for members such as 'baby boomer group', 20's-30's etc., and maybe this will draw more people in knowing they have a community within the church they can get involved with.
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Network with small, liberal temples and mosques.
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tell them the end of the wolrd is coming rigth the way!!!!
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Make a video of a typical service and post it on YouTube.com. Also, make sure that gay people are welcome by specifically mentioning this fact.
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See if your local newspaper/newspaper web site has a social media or community channel related to your geography or churches as a topic and post an invitation or url.
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Remember all current 80 members names, daily call them with their names and talk to them friendly, then they themselves will tell to their friends
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Email the link to this page to the 80 members of your church and get their ideas on it.