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A customizable plan to help your church retain MORE new families
Step #1
Buy & Download the Resource
Step #2
Customize it For Your Church
Step #3
Retain MORE New Families
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
A 5-Part Framework To Help Your Church Retain MORE New Families
PRE-VISIT preparation
STAGE #1
HELP GUESTS FEEL
EXPECTED
FIRST-TIME GUESTS
STAGE #2
HELP GUESTS FEEL
SEEN
SECOND-TIME GUESTS
STAGE #3
HELP GUESTS FEEL
REMEMBERED
NEXT STEPS opportunity
STAGE #4
HELP GUESTS FEEL
INCLUDED
CONNECTED to your church
STAGE #5
HELP GUESTS FEEL
KNOWN
PRE-VISIT PREPARATION
Resources to help you prepare for a first-time family before they attend, including:
- Website Checklist you can use to make sure your website is helpful for first-time guests
- Environment Checklist you can use to prepare your physical space with guests in mind
- Children's Ministry Pre-Registration content you can use to implement a form allowing parents to pre-register their kids before attending
PRE-VISIT PREPARATION
Resources to help you prepare for a first-time family before they attend, including:
- Website Checklist you can use to make sure your website is helpful for first-time guests
- Environment Checklist you can use to prepare your physical space with guests in mind
- Children's Ministry Pre-Registration content you can use to implement a form allowing parents to pre-register their kids before attending
First-Time Guests
Resources you can use to create a first-time experience for new families that helps them feel welcomed and leads them to come back again, including:
- New family registration card ideas and examples
- Digital registration strategies
- Gift ideas for kids, students, adults, and families
- Ideas and resources for a “New Here” area for guests
- Volunteer job descriptions
- Training for volunteers
- Personal Connection Guide to help volunteers connect with families
- Detailed Follow-Up Process
- Scripts for emails and texts to use for follow-up
First-Time Guests
Resources you can use to create a first-time experience for new families that helps them feel welcomed and leads them to come back again, including:
- New family registration card ideas and examples
- Digital registration strategies
- Gift ideas for kids, students, adults, and families
- Ideas and resources for a “New Here” area for guests
- Volunteer job descriptions
- Training for volunteers
- Personal Connection Guide to help volunteers connect with families
- Detailed Follow-Up Process
- Scripts for emails and texts to use for follow-up
Second-Time Guests
Resources to use to help second-time guests take the next step in your church, including:
- Gift ideas for second-time guests
- Ideas for how to help returning guests feel remembered personally
- Volunteer Job Descriptions
- Detailed Follow-Up Process
- Scripts for emails and texts to use for follow-up
Second-Time Guests
Resources to use to help second-time guests take the next step in your church, including:
- Gift ideas for second-time guests
- Ideas for how to help returning guests feel remembered personally
- Volunteer Job Descriptions
- Detailed Follow-Up Process
- Scripts for emails and texts to use for follow-up
Next Steps
Resources to help you create a “Next Step” opportunity to help guests take the important step of getting connected in your church, including:
- Next Step ideas, including strengths and weaknesses of various options
- Volunteer Job Descriptions
- Detailed Follow-Up Process
- Scripts for emails and texts to use for follow-up
Next Steps
Resources to help you create a “Next Step” opportunity to help guests take the important step of getting connected in your church, including:
- Next Step ideas, including strengths and weaknesses of various options
- Volunteer Job Descriptions
- Detailed Follow-Up Process
- Scripts for emails and texts to use for follow-up
Connected to Your Church
Resources to use to new families connect and stay retained at your church, including:
- Resources for helping kids, students, and adults get connected
- Membership resources if your church has membership as part of the process
- Volunteer Job Descriptions
- Detailed Follow-Up Process
- Ideas for how to hand-off to your discipleship process
Connected to Your Church
Resources to use to new families connect and stay retained at your church, including:
- Resources for helping kids, students, and adults get connected
- Membership resources if your church has membership as part of the process
- Volunteer Job Descriptions
- Detailed Follow-Up Process
- Ideas for how to hand-off to your discipleship process
you get…
Instructional Videos
Volunteer Job Descriptions
Guest Gift Ideas
Communication & Follow-up Scripts
Documents, Files, & Resources
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Meet the team
The team behind this resource is passionate about helping churches reach and keep new families. They have decades of experience (and tons of mistakes) in church leadership as well as working with other churches. This resource is a collection of that experience.
Kenny Conley
Kenny, a 20-year veteran of kids and family ministry, currently serves as the Children's Pastor at Mariners Church in Irvine, CA. His passion to see the next generation come to know and follow Christ propels him to constantly rethink how the church approaches ministry to kids, students and their families. Check out his writing at childrensministryonline.com and iamnextgen.com.
Gina McClain
Gina McClain has led children’s ministry for 20 years, including roles at Life.Church in Oklahoma City, Faith Promise Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Cross Point Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Gina teaches, mentors, and writes on the topic of ministry leadership and personal development. She and her husband Kyle have three kids. You can find Gina's writing at ginamcclain.com.
Kevin Monahan
Dr. Kevin Monahan is the Executive Pastor at Journey Church in Lake Worth, FL. With over 25 years of ministry experience, he has ministry expertise in working with kids, middle school, high school as well as college student and young adults. Kevin has been married to his wife, Meghan, for over 18 years and has three children: Jacob, Aidan and Olivia.
Jon Birkmire
Jon is the Next Generation Pastor at Anthem Church in Gainesville, Florida. He also works with North Point Ministries as a coach for other NextGen leaders inside of their network of churches. Jon is passionate about coaching church leaders to be more strategic in the way they lead their ministries to reach people no one is reaching and measure what really matters.
Nick Blevins
Nick and his wife Jennifer have 3 amazing kids- Isaac, Mackenzie, and Paige. Nick serves on the leadership team at Community Christian Church and leads the NextGen Ministry staff team. Nick loves to help church leaders work on their ministry and he is a certified Church StratOp facilitator, helping churches walk through the proven strategic planning process of StratOp.
FAQs
Will this resource work as a church-wide retention plan?
Absolutely. This was designed to be a church-wide retention plan, but it has a specific focus on families with kids and students.
Will this work in a small church? Large church? Urban church? Suburban church?
This plan will work in EVERY church because you're going to customize the plan to make sure it works in your setting.
How do I implement this?
There are videos and documents all throughout the resource that will guide you through designing and implementing a new family retention plan in your church. You'll use the documents, files, and resources included in this bundle to create your own plan.
Can I get help as I implement it?
Join the Ministry Boost Facebook Group here. That's the best place to ask questions, seek input, and get help as you create your retention plan using this resource.