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Bigger than BIG!

  [Pastor Randy's blog]
07/07/2010
By alonso, randy

In my last blog I asked you to interpret "Go out into the country lanes and behind the hedges and urge anyone you find to come, so that the house will be full."  Luke 14:23.   How do we apply that verse to the goal of doubling our fellowship to 500 people by the end of summer?  If we want our church to reach more people for Jesus we can’t invite three or four people we have to set a date (August 14-15th) and invite thousands of people!
 

It says that the method they used was going out into the country lanes and behind the hedges and urge anyone to come.  There are ‘four ways in thirty days’ that we can do this and capture the attention of our community...


Word of mouth.  This is really cost effective in an expensive world!  The biggest influx of people is when your friends bring their friends.  You really have to pay attention to the wording in that previous phrase.  When your friends bring their friends church growth goes crazy! 


Direct mail.  It will be the official first week back in school on August 14-15.  That spells opportunity!  So in conjunction with Word of Mouth the immediate zip codes around Central Ministries at Central Community (300 Tucker Lane in Cocoa) and Pineda POINTE (US1 & Pineda Causeway) receive in their mailbox a color postcard announcing and inviting our neighbors to church. Thousands and thousands and thousands of them.


Website.  Younger Christians and those looking for a new church are most likely to look at our Website.  It has to be sharp, current, and eye popping. The Website serves as the ‘deal closer’. Just last weekend at Central a family came to the first service.  I introduced myself and asked them how they learned about us.  They said, “Your Website.”


Radio.  Our daily program, recently renamed “ReVerb”, airs twice at 8:30 am & 5:30 pm.  It reaches a wide audience by the thousands and serves as an airway Billboard for both campuses.  During these thirty days we will also run advertising at all hours of the day announcing our BIG weekend!


There’s even more!  Newspaper, free publication ads, letters to businesses, and fliers.  All of these things focused on one BIG weekend will create the ‘doubling affect’ taught in the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25).  So pray for yourself that you will be a people magnet.  And pray for a great burden and brokenness for people without Jesus to overtake the spirit of our fellowship.
 

God is looking for an impossible situation and a magnificent opportunity in order to show Himself strong on our behalf.  May Central be that people and that place!

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