Growth Group

August 19, 2008

In attendance: Jerry Andres, Jerry Onos, John McCall, Rick Angell, Kendra Palmer

Next Meeting, Potentially Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 7pm, combined with group working on volunteerism and the participation opportunities forms

Some wonderful ideas came out of this meeting for working toward providing a more extravagant welcome at church:

Action Items
*Developing a group of Mentors for new church members

*Incorporating more multimedia over time to meet the needs of the upcoming generations in church

*We did review the Successful church practices on pg 5 of The Power of Invitation and Welcome

**we came to the consensus that we do meet the majority of these requirements but determined the extravagant welcome is a theme that is infused in all of the recommendations and that is something that we will enhance at church.
*Side Note: There was mention of other congregations that have pick up orchestras that perform occasionally comprised of musicians from the congregation

*Offering tours after church with informational info about the church to those interested

*Equipping existing groups in church to work on providing a more extravagant welcome
(Perhaps it will be a church theme and/or each group may consider this theme as they are planning events throughout the year)

*Church to obtain more publicity in terms of local news sources, the 3 local papers, enhancing visibility on search engines, potentially tv or radio, maybe advertising in yellow pages under Congregational churches as well.

*Develop a marketing plan utilizing marketing plan guidelines next time