Fellowship is "sensing that you are a part of the church family." It is "being at home." It is more than "How are you today?" It is developing friends who can pray with you about your needs...people you can turn to when the going gets tough. The Fellowship Tools below can help you achieve that very purpose. Good hunting!
Canning What You Get - a Step-By-Step Pastoral Guide to Assimilating New Members.Develops the role of the Assimilation Director along with small group assimilation.Includes leadership exercises such as “Identifying Why People Leave.” Note: 34,000 words in length so don't print it until you're sure!
How To Do A Purpose Driven Evening Service– combines small groups, prayer, and fellowship in a rotating series of services that help your people expand the family atmosphere of your church! Printing caution: 33,000 words in length!
Let's Encourage One Another - all of us need encouragement. This exercise develops small support groups for everyone.
User Friendly Questions - great questions for a Saturday morning training session! Expect some eye-opening responses.
How To Get To Know One Another - use these questions during your fellowship time to get past the normal "How are you today?" Give them something specific to know!
Assimilation Studies: Identifying the Assimilators Pt 1; Identifying the Assimilation Solutions Pt 2. Assimilation Slides.
How To Make My Church Visitor Friendly – great for a Saturday morning leadership/Sunday School meeting.
How To Organize First Impression Teams To Greet Visitors – be sure to give a great welcome and church information to every visitor.
Bulletin Insert - this insert continually reminds our members to assimilate. Repeat this every 40 days!
How To Assimilate Members In A PDC Church - by Saddleback leaders.
Build New Groups In 2010 - this article has excellent ideas covering the five purposes.
Celebrating 90th Birthday - Pastor Mike Rice shares! I have seen the impact of this in their service. It is a "loving one another" experience that we need more of! Jesus Loves Me Song - Senior Adult Version.
Leadership Exercise: How To Do A Church Survey - asking the average church member often provides a different answer than asking the church leaders. This exercise will let you compare and contrast these two categories of church members.
Leadership Exercise: Identifying Why People Leave- this exercise helps you identify broad categories such as lack of new friends, disagreement with the church's purpose, etc. You can then devise methods to attack those broad categories.
Leadership Exercise: What Is Your Favorite Door? This exercise helps the leadership understand the church's back door (people leaving) is just as important as the church's front door (people joining).
Creating A Strategy For First Time Visitors - all of us have attended an unfriendly church that we were happy to leave! This exercise will help you think through your entire strategy.
The Role Of The Assimilation Director - this is as much a calling as that of being an Evangelism Director!
What Small Groups Do We Have? Small groups are critical to assimilating people because they provide personal intimacy and support.
How To Preserve The Unity Of The Spirit - powerpoint slides from one of my messages. 4 critical questions to answer!