Offer Interest- and Background-Based Small Groups
Idea Starter: The Church on the Way connects members with groups based on topic, season, ethnicity, formation and even homelessness.
Ideas
Try This: Host a Coupon Swap
Partner with local businesses and couponing experts to help your church’s families save money on groceries
Try This: Hold a Cake-Decorating Class
Idea Starter: Ask a pro cake decorator to teach you the basics, then share the sweet results with others.
The Name Says It All: New Hope Church
Tim Liston: “We just try to grow the people. A life turned around, a saved marriage, a better dad, better people. And the result is that they invite friends and family to attend.”
Idea Starter: Establish a Lifetree Café
Set up a Lifetree Café, a less intimidating, off-campus form of a Bible study that puts Christianity into a real-world perspective
Try This: Speak a Common Language
Your website should be written in language even non-Christians can understand.
Try This: Support Military Families
Idea Starter: Offer support groups for service members and their families, and celebrate their service on Memorial and Veteran’s days
Idea Starter: Bring Your Church to the Gym
Stream your services live to reach those who spend Sunday mornings pumping iron
A New Growth Model: South Hills Church
Chris Sonksen: “Our objective is to come alongside [small] churches that have potential to go to 200 or 300, but they just don’t have the networking or the understanding or the systems.”
3 Perspectives on Innovation
Charles Lee: "It’s far easier to throw around creative ideas during a meeting than it is to do the actual work of innovation."
