197 - Maximizing New Visitor Follow-Up with Kyle Kutter

01/04/18 • 46 min

The Pro Church Tools Show with Brady Shearer

http://prochurchtools.com/197 - Getting people to go from visitor to a fully integrated member of your community can be difficult. Kyle discusses how to make the most of your visitor follow up process.

What's In This Session?

Leading the way with MORE free resources for the local church (8:27)
How your church can take advantage of the free items on Open Network (11:19)
Avoiding band-aid solutions by copying other churches (13:04)
Tracking the metrics that truly matter to your church (21:25)
How Life.Church manages follow-up with their new visitors (23:12)
The gap between automation and individualization in visitor follow-up (27:34)
The future of Open Network (30:37)
The Scrum Methodology (32:57)
How to convince your senior leadership to begin using new resources (37:34)

Show Notes & Resources Mentioned

3 Instant Takeaways

Avoid bandaid solutions by understanding the why. It's easy to look at what other churches are doing and think that by replicating their programs or other strategies you can replicate their success. This is not always the case because their ministry was built on their context. Before implementing other church's tactics make sure you understand why it works and why it could work for you.
Allow people to belong before they believe. Create an environment where visitors are welcome to attend and become part of your church before you expect anything from them. Remove any barriers between them and their next step into your community. This could be anything from making sure the kids' check in procedures are clear on their first visit, or joining a life group is simple further along the way.
Lead with the heart of it. When convincing leadership to begin using new resources start with how the resource can help push the heart of their vision forward.

Find the full transcript for this session of the Pro Church Podcast at http://prochurchtools.com/pcp197/.

What's In This Session?

Leading the way with MORE free resources for the local church (8:27)
How your church can take advantage of the free items on Open Network (11:19)
Avoiding band-aid solutions by copying other churches (13:04)
Tracking the metrics that truly matter to your church (21:25)
How Life.Church manages follow-up with their new visitors (23:12)
The gap between automation and individualization in visitor follow-up (27:34)
The future of Open Network (30:37)
The Scrum Methodology (32:57)
How to convince your senior leadership to begin using new resources (37:34)

Show Notes & Resources Mentioned

3 Instant Takeaways

Avoid bandaid solutions by understanding the why. It's easy to look at what other churches are doing and think that by replicating their programs or other strategies you can replicate their success. This is not always the case because their ministry was built on their context. Before implementing other church's tactics make sure you understand why it works and why it could work for you.
Allow people to belong before they believe. Create an environment where visitors are welcome to attend and become part of your church before you expect anything from them. Remove any barriers between them and their next step into your community. This could be anything from making sure the kids' check in procedures are clear on their first visit, or joining a life group is simple further along the way.
Lead with the heart of it. When convincing leadership to begin using new resources start with how the resource can help push the heart of their vision forward.

Find the full transcript for this session of the Pro Church Podcast at http://prochurchtools.com/pcp197/.

Previous Episode

196 - The Next Generation Of Churches with Phil Bowdle

http://prochurchtools.com/196 - It’s important to look ahead and plan for the future. Phil joins us to take about this next generation of churches, and where he sees the church going in the future.

What's In This Session?

Ministering through the biggest communication shift in the last 500 years (9:11)
Recognizing the importance of change despite being wildly successful (10:35)
How much longer will the megachurch model remain viable? (14:05)
Why churches are missing the mark when it comes communication (17:55)
What makes change so difficult (23:08)
Navigating difficult decisions & relationships with senior leadership (27:45)
3 questions to continually ask your team/leadership (30:46)
What to do if you’re an older pastor recognizing the need for change (34:28)

Show Notes & Resources Mentioned

3 Instant Takeaways

In the last decade the average church hasn't changed how they communicate, but the average person has. It's critical that churches recognize this shift and learn to communicate to their community in a way that they will recognize and understand. The medium isn't sacred - the message is.
People are starving for authenticity. People want to go some place where they don't feel like everyone wants something from them. Our culture is inundated with advertisements. Stand out by putting people first, not your church. Don't be another sales pitch.
Fear makes change difficult. 80% of people do not like change. To overcome this, consider decisions based on the people in your community that still need to be reached, instead of just your existing congregation.

Find the full transcript for this session of the Pro Church Podcast at http://prochurchtools.com/pcp196/.

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