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Beyond the First Visit: The Complete Guide to Connecting Guests to Your Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

All churches like to think that theirs is the friendliest in town. But do visitors see it that way? Church consultant Gary McIntosh invites readers to take a look at their church through the eyes of visitors and potential visitors. His starting point, grounded in an understanding of God as a "welcomer," is that churches should see those who enter their doors as not merely visitors, but as guests,...

Today our mobile society finds people moving three to six times, with some moving up to twenty times, during their lifetime. Add to this the fracturing of the family and the breakdown of natural networks of friendships, and we can see that it is more of a challenge to welcome guests today. Rates of Retention Welcoming people is a never-ending process. Research completed in the late 1980s found that a church must keep about 16 percent of its first-time guests to experience a minimal growth rate of
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