If you are wondering this week, “Are we doing everything we can do to reach and connect the new people coming to church for Christmas this weekend?”, then this post is for you.

Your “One Program” for guests is always going to require the best kind of invitational promotion you can create to connect the most people possible to your church. Here are 5 hacks for this that we did recently that really made a HUGE difference…

For years, most churches offer a welcome gift in exchange for a guest’s contact information so they can start building a relationship with them. But what if that giveaway no longer works in an online service? Here are 3 reasons a guest will share their contact info with you online.

Amazing. People are now finding a church in the same way they find a show they want to binge on Netflix. This has given me 3 realizations about connecting with them as “on demand viewers”.

I was cohosting our first ever Next Steps Online. As we let in the guests from our zoom waiting room, all the squares with real people inhabiting them populated the screen of my laptop. That’s when Lynette’s face appeared. I was about to get schooled on what becomes possible when you create an online space to connect guests at your church.

Are you wondering how to convert those who watch you online into volunteers? What if you have more moderators than attenders in your live chat? What if the quarantine is an opportunity for your church, not just a disruption? This and more in this summary of my FB Live from the 1st week of May.

At my last Facebook Live last Tuesday, we talked about 2 things: One, the importance of creating a clear engagement pathway for your online services and two, the need to have a plan for problem people and their comments on live chat. Here is the summary of that discussion and a preview of topics we’ll cover together tomorrow at my weekly Facebook Live 8am (PST) Tuesdays at Facebook.com/gregcurtis63.

These days we are helping guests climb the “Cyberssimilayas” because the summit of full connection for them has become a virtual destination during this extended quarantine. The learnings from Easter weekend fell into 3 categories: Your overall online experience, live chat hacks, and using text to share their decision to follow Jesus. Explore it all here.

Here is a useful recap that covers how to take attendance online, how to create an online engagement pathway (instead of a one-time pit stop), and identifying the best ask of your guests and when to ask it.

I loved spending 25 minutes on Facebook Live with many of you, sharing what we are learning right now about engaging guests online at my church. I promised a written summary of that discussion with linked resources so here it is!