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Follow Up on Guests

September 23, 2016 by Bob Mayfield Leave a Comment

Why should your group follow-up on guests that visit a worship service, event, or even your Sunday School group?

A simple answer: Because we should care about their eternal destiny and their personal spiritual growth!!

If a guest attends a worship service or your Sunday School group and completes a guest registration card, then it is very likely that they would like some kind of follow-up. If not, they would not have completed the card! My personal preference with follow up is to “follow-up with impact.” Yes, that means visit their home! Yes yes… I have heard how unpopular and unworkable a home visit is. But I also know from personal experience that a home visit communicates compassion and concern to a guest. If you are willing to visit them in their home, you have communicated that your group will go to great lengths to minister to them.

Other follow-up options also include:

  • Text message
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Form letter from the church

And yes, there is one form of follow-up that is absolutely the worst and can be summed up in one word: ignore. Ignoring a guest speaks just as loudly as visiting them at their home; but do you really want your church to have the reputation of ignoring its guests? Of course not…

So develop a system and work your system. Fine tune it so that your group offers grace and community to every guest that visits your church.

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Bob Mayfield is the Sunday School/Small Group specialist for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. Bob also has his own blog, as well as coordinating the BGCO’s online training site for Sunday School leaders, reconnectss.com.

Related posts:

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3 Reasons Lost People Should be Enrolled

4 Mistakes to Avoid When Ministering to Members

Expect God's Word to Speak Twice

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