Visitors

Looking that the Sunday service stats we have recently fallen into a pattern-

We have a consistent number for folks worshiping with us on Sundays.
This is made up of a block of volunteers. These are the folks we depend on and who lead our church. It's also our regular attenders and people in a Connections Group. These folks are constantly involved. We love you guys! Both of these groups live in the modern world. (Translation: even the most consistent folks miss a Sunday a month due to work, family, holiday, sickness, etc.)

So we have roughly 3/4 of our "peeps" at church each Sunday. (That's actually a bit generous.)

The rest of the folks, about 1/4 each Sunday, are visitors.
Which is very exciting.
We are a new church- we should have lots of new visitors.
I've also noticed that people will self-identify as a visitor from a minimum of 2 visits, to as long as 3 months.

But now the question- what to do with our visitors?

Over the next few days I will outline some thoughts on what we might do as a church in order that we might accomplish the following:

1. Turn a visitor into a returner;
2. A returner into a regular;
3. A regular into a volunteer/contributor/member/whatever you want to call someone who really a part of our community.

If this all sounds very methodical or systematic, good.
It needs to be. We can say we want to be relationship or authentic.
But the real question is, will we love people enough, and love our church enough, to really follow-up, engage, and connect with every people who takes a step towards us? We must.
If they have visited our service, they have already made a HUGE leap of faith.
It means someone believed in us enough to invite a friend.
Or it means they heard about us we internally moved/motivated to come.

If anyone has done that, then it's only right that we value that step enough to take a few steps along side of them. That's why this kind of follow-up is essential. It how we will actually love and serve neighbours.