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WAYS TO DEVELOP NEW CONTACTS - PART I
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1. Send attractive household mailings through a delivery service with an invitation to attend and with an invitation to personal phone contact. "If you are interested in baptismal preparation, marriage preparation, or any church activities, call me at my office Tuesday and Thursday evenings between 7:30 and 9:30."
2. Hand deliver door to door flyers to parish neighbourhoods in turn, with an attractive invitation to attend and a list of parish activities.
3. Ask parishioners to arrange visits for you with neighbours or relatives who might be interested in a pastoral visit.
4. Regularly post church service times and special activities on the community notice boards in the parish.
5 Make pastoral calls on people who attend parish social events but have not yet come to church.
6. Make follow up visits to people who have had baptisms, weddings or funerals at the parish, but who have not yet got into the pattern of attendance.
7. Find a small team of people in your parish who have the salesperson personality and who like people and the adventure of the unknown, and go door to door visiting in your neighbourhoods one night per month, searching out Anglicans or people who "might be interested" in your parish services, Sunday School, or activities.
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©1999 Ronald C. Ferris
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