GOD IS MOVING!
We love your feedback and the Back to Church Sunday stories you shared – below are just a few examples. If you would like to have your story included, please email us at [email protected]
Use multiple means of invitation and start planning early. Email invitation, Direct Mail Postcard and Personal Invite Card.
You should absolutely give it a try! 10% of our attendance were guests! I had considered trying for several years. So glad we tried. We will probably press into it harder next year.
It is valuable to cultivate a membership who recognize the need to share and invite. There is something important about not only making new disciples but bringing back those who have been hurt or damaged by the church.
There is nothing to lose and everything to gain as you excite and encourage your congregation to invite others to service.
Any opportunity to get our congregants thinking about inviting others should not be ignored.
It (BTCS) fits with the time we are living in and it is time for the Church to get back to being the Church.
(Back to Church Sunday) is an excellent opportunity for our church family to engage friends and co-workers about their faith. Hopefully that specific practice will grow to be more of a lifestyle, but until then special events provide a focal point to encournage it.
Back to Church Sunday has served us well notably in attendance but in helping mobilize our people to see the importance of inviting others to church!
It was a fun and exciting way to both partner with the community and bring the love of Christ to a hurting world. The resources were a great help in breaking the ‘I do not know what to do’, and the ‘we have tried everything already’ excuses. It provided a new and streamlined way to process how and when to begin the process.
Back to Church Sunday is the only “national” event we plug into and want to be part of our culture. it’s one of the biggest events we do each year!
Consider using the resources and finding a way to adapt them to your local context. You may find a lot of great materials or just a couple of graphics. Either way, it’s something to help encourage your congregation to bring new people to church.
After seeing about 40% of our pre-COVID attendnace come back after we re-opened. We had an amazing turnout and service this morning for Back To Church Sunday. For the first time in over six months, things felt more normal today. We dfinitely needed that!
We appreciate all your hard work in making this eent happen. Resources an dinformation we spot on this year. We can’t wait to prepare for nest year’s (event).
The theme of humanity’s return to God is one of the most prominent in the Scripture. God called for Israel to return to him through repentance throughout the nation’s history. This return took on new meaning when the people returned from exile back to the promised land. We have an opportunity to add meaning to our need to return during this upcoming “Back to Church Sunday”… This moment grants us a chance to experience God in new and profound ways in and through our fellowship….
I love serving at People’s Church with my young adults in PCKids!