Karl Vaters interviews Desmond Barrett about how small churches can do a better job at reaching, welcoming, and keeping guests.

Desmond is the author of Helping Small Churches Win Guests: Preparing to Increase Attendance, which is a short, but very practical book that pastors will find great benefit in.

Karl and Desmond talk about:

How to reimagine the church facility from the parking lot to the pew
Why sharing updates about facility improvements is attractive to guests
Why so many pastors and church leaders resist doing what needs to be done
Why “we just need to attract young families” is never the answer
The good news that new Christians are not looking for programs, they’re wanting to live on mission

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Bonus video

5 Options When a Church Property is Too Big for the Congregation, with Desmond Barrett

Karl Vaters talks with Desmond Barrett, the author of Helping Small Churches Win Guests: Preparing to Increase Attendance, about a subject that is a challenge for a growing number of congregations. What can you do when a church facility that was built to hold hundreds of people has just a handful or worshipers left?

The five options they discuss are:

Do Nothing
Share the Property
Rent the Property
Sell the Property
Recreate the Property

Links: Helping Small Churches Win Guests: Preparing to Increase Attendance

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