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Grace Community Church, Goshen, Ind., Below are some lessons our church of more than 2,000 has learned about planning outreach year-round. Schedule one long, off-site planning meeting. Map out the entire year’s outreach initiatives. Consider dividing the meeting…
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The last decade (and past few months and days) have seen disaster after disaster—big and small, manmade and natural catastrophes. They are unpredictable and devastating. So the question is, when the next one hits—how will your church respond? Are you positioned to…
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1. Get it in the budget! A budget does not guarantee the availability of funds but it does set priorities and assist in the fund –raising process. If outreach is a priority, reflect it by allocating resources to empower it. Fifteen…
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Guest Blogger – Jessica Clegg, Marketing and Design Specialist for Back to Church Sunday shares her story about why she is passionate about the mission of Back to Church Sunday. If you told me in 2004 that I would stop…
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The Easter season at Outreach is one that represents the peak of the year – the busiest – the most challenging – the most joyous. In the past few weeks, we processed 8.3 million invitations to help equip the Church for…
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Once, on a surfing trip to Mexico, our car passed a Mexican citizen hopping the border fence, and running with all his heart towards the U.S. The border patrol nabbed him, but the incident left me thinking why he dared…
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When you type “God” into Google, it will retrieve somewhere around 855 million results in 16 seconds. It’s not “speaking-the-world-into-existence” impressive, but still—pretty impressive. So you might be thinking, “What ranked first in the search engine results?” Not surprisingly, it…
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We regularly post stories of churches engaged in successful outreach efforts to encourage others. These stories come straight from our Outreach Solutions Consultants, who daily help churches reach more people for Christ. This Easter 8.3 million direct mail impact postcards…
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Verve in Las Vegas, Nev. opened its doors on the Las Vegas Strip in March 2010 for the first time to a crowd of 277. But the church plant led by Pastor Vince Antonucci was hitting the streets long before…
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