A lot of christian churches are still in the dark when it comes to their christian church growth because they do not set goals. Many churches across the world have the same type of problem. The tendancy is for a church to count its growth by the number of Sunday morning visitors this Sunday as opposed to last Sunday. Of course this way of measuring your churches growth is flawed.
The cause this may be a bad idea is because churches have ups and downs in attendance like the stock market. Many churches find that their attendance will go down when summer hits and then spike in time for Christmas. Without knowing where you were last year at this time there is no way to know if todays number is growth or not.
Tracking the numbers of people in your christian church will be your first step to getting your christian church growth goals set. First take one year and count every member in attendance each service along with each visitor. This is going to get you a good graph of the spikes in attendance and the drops.
Time to ready a quantity of goals for your christian church growth. One thing you need to understand is that goals should never be too high. Your christian church needs a goal that is reachable and not too hard to get to. This will assist in the long run to keep your church motivated as they meet those goals.
What do you believe your church can actually do? All church members start out as a visitor before they make the leap and join. Since this is true you should focus a little bit on the number of visitors in the past. You should be trying to get more visitors this month than you had last year during this month. Even if these visitors do not become members they will still be more people in attendance to your service.
Now you need to get these visitors to change from visitors into full members. To do this look at how many people joined your church in the same month last year. Now try to get the number boosted up in the same way you did with getting more visitors. You may be wondering how to do this. There is more than one way. Normally there is more than one thing that needs to happen to get people to change from visitor to member. Do a number of surveys to find out what you need to do.
The setting up of goals will give you a good idea of what areas in your christian church need more work than others. In other words you will know there is a problem when you see a low amount of visitors turning into members. You can find out what is stopping people from joining by asking important questions and surveys. Use this information.
In the same way you could have very few visits to your church nevertheless every visitor turns into a member. This may be a sign that your churches outreach needs work. You need to find out what is keeping people from visiting your church.
This is how setting goals for christian church growth will help you. It gives you a real bar to shoot for. If you have these numbers written down then when the summer drop comes you may find yourself happy instead of sad since you will see that you are in actuality up from last year.
Make sure you continue this process from year to year. It will aid with church growth in many ways. Having a goal will also keep your people active in promoting the church. This is how the great christian churches tend to operate. This is why they are so great. They take time to measure their success.
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