Outreach & Missions How To's

4 Practical Ways to Support Missionaries

It would be easy to focus exclusively on our local churches in this difficult season, but recently the International Missions Board of the SBC listed practical ways we can support missionaries during these trying times.

Your Checklist For Sharing the Gospel

Sharing the Gospel is like flying an airplane. You want to take off smoothly, have a solid flight plan, know how to deal with emergency situations and then, of course, land safely.

7 Things All Growing Churches Have in Common

At the end of the day, the church is all about helping people meet Jesus. Growing churches make decisions based on who they are trying to reach, not who they are trying to keep.

12 Ways To Make Sure Easter Guests Don’t Come Back

If you actually care about Easter guests and irregular church attendees because you believe they matter to God, you might consider doing just the opposite of this list.

Outreach Strategy for Advertising: 10 Helps

An outreach strategy uses advertising to help us tell the message of the church and the Christ of the church.

How To Be Transparent in Ministry (and Why)

Real transparency between fellow sisters (and brothers) in Christ is much deeper and much more difficult than what we commonly practice. Being transparent in ministry is painful, embarrassing, humbling work, for the teller as well as for the hearer.

6 Simple Ways To Love Your Neighbors This Holiday Season

Fresh ideas to strengthen and liven up your community.

5 Essential Ingredients for Planting Churches

Growing larger isn’t the most beautiful part of our story. It’s that we’ve managed to spread out and multiply by planting churches.

8 Easy Ways To Be Missional

Missional is not an event we tack onto our already busy lives. It is our life. Mission should be the way we live, not something we add onto life:.There are easy ways to be missional everyday without overloading our schedules.

How to Witness to Family Members at Thanksgiving

What if we saw our gatherings with extended family not as a chance to check out, but as an opportunity for Christian mission? Do you know how to witness to family members?

All Christians Are Called to Full Time Ministry

If you call yourself a Christian, your agenda is now filled with an all-consuming calling from Christ himself to full time ministry.