As a delivery manager at Fellowship Technologies and about to start my 5th year of travelling around the country visiting churches I have a few insights into what makes a church grow. All churches grow for the same reason: the people that go to a church tell people who do not go to that church that they should show up.
Your members are your best advertising. You need to know who your members are and what demographic they represent. Every ministry in a church caters to some type of demographic. Every church I have visited has some demographic that is disproportionately large to the overall church attendance.
Maybe you have a large children’s ministry or youth ministry. Maybe you have a large Adult ministry of young married or older married or singles or seniors. Let’s call this phenomenon the Big D. Every ministry should know 3 things about the Big D, where did these people come from, why are they here, where will they go next.
If you have a Big D in children’s ministry or even just the preschool age then you also have a lot of young parents. Those are two different demographics that need reaching by your church. Each ministry of a church should be promoting itself and other ministries that can be affected by the Big D.
Your goal is not to focus on the Big D to the detriment of other ministries in your church but to bring the other ministries up to the same level so that the Big D is no longer big but just another part of your multi-demographic church.
What’s your Big D?
Jeremy Jackson