Church
Growth Center
The STRATEGIES, PROGRAMS and COACHING you need to draw a constant stream of visitors to your church through the power of online and offline marketing, community workshops, and engaging events.
Church
Growth Center
The STRATEGIES, RESOURCES and SUPPORT
you need to draw a constant stream of visitors to your church through the power of online and offline marketing, community workshops, and engaging events.
Attract a Steady Stream of Visitors to Your Church with Our Proven Strategy and Done-For-You Programs!
Let Me Give You Everything You Need to Constantly Attract the Unsaved and Unchurched and Lead Them to the Lord and to Joining Your Congregation.
Rev. Sheldon Nix, Ph.D., M.S.W.,
President, Church Growth Systems || Founding Pastor, Life Worth Living Fellowship || Certified Business Coach
Attract a Steady Stream of Visitors to Your Church with Our Proven Strategy and Programs!
We Give You Everything You Need to Constantly Attract the Unsaved and Unchurched and Lead Them to the Lord and to Joining Your Congregation.
Is This You, Pastor?
You've Gone to Conferences and Read Church Growth Books
👉 And they give you good ideas but not a comprehensive system that makes sense and that you can implement this coming week... especially with your limited time (most of us work another job).
You Don't Need Just Ideas. You Need a Simple, Proven System.
You've Tried to Get Your Members to Invite Their Friends and Family
👉 But it seems like your words are falling on deaf ears. They look at you (I've been there) and you know they are not going to do it very often, if at all. Even evangelism training doesn't help for long.
You Need to Be Able to Reach the Unchurched NOW. Today.
You've Tried Using Social Media But It Doesn't Seem Effective
👉You post invitations and flyers, pictures of yourself and your family having fun, asked questions and shared interesting quotes, but nothing comes from all that time on social media.
Social Media CAN Work When You Know How.
And then Covid hit and your church has shrunk in attendance, because they haven't come back in significant numbers.
I Get It. Been There Done That.
Here's How I Learned These Strategies
(And Why They Work So Well)
Rev. Sheldon Nix, Ph.D., M.S.W.
President & Head Coach
In 1973, at 17 years old, God spoke to me and called me to be a Pastor. With the image of my grandfather Rev. Andrew Nix, Sr. in my mind (I thought he had died in the pulpit and I didn't want that to happen to me), I said "No." The bed I was lying on shook, and He said again, "I want you to be a Pastor." Again, I said "No!"
I thought, like Jonah, that I had gotten away with it. While on the "high seas" I...
Got my Masters in Social Work and learned how to deliver practical services to people;
Got my Ph.D in Counseling Psychology and learned how to understand people at a deep level and transform their whole way of thinking and responding;
Graduated from Coach University as a Life and Business Coach and learned how to change people's lives more quickly;
Built a $2 million a Year Nonprofit from scratch, learning how to do grant-writing and grow a large organization.
As with the Apostle Paul's background, God is using all that training and experience, but continued to insist that I plant a church and Pastor it for 10 years. So in 2004, He found me while driving home from a movie and I had to yield to His call. With my whole heart. At His direction, I launched Life Worth Living Fellowship with Rev. John Finney and a team of believers.
But I made a BIG mistake!
So after I turned my church over to Rev. Finney as planned, I knew there had to be a way to grow the church through social media. I became an EMyth Certified Business Coach and also started learning from some of the best internet marketers out there, spending over $50,000 getting their closely-guarded secrets.
I figured that the same strategies they used to draw people into their expensive coaching and training programs would enable us pastors to draw people into our (free) life-changing programs and events.
And I was right! Together with two Pastor friends who served as my "test group," we discovered how to use those same strategies to draw Seekers to a church. The result is the system you now have the opportunity to use to grow your church.
Our Results Were Amazing:
We used these strategies to bring 503 people into the "outer circle" of the marriage ministry of Love Kingdom Fellowship Church in just 5 weeks of marketing!
(I'll explain about the "circles" of your ministry during the training.)
Now It's Your Turn to Grow Your Church with These Strategies!
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Rev. Sheldon Nix, Ph.D., M.S.W.,
President, Church Growth Systems || Founding Pastor, Life Worth Living Fellowship || Certified Business Coach
3 Steps to a Growing Number of Visitors to Your Ministry
To get more and more visitors to your church (or attendees at your conferences and seminars), we use a proven 3-step process:
STEP 1: Attract Seekers by Getting Them to Think About Their Issues in a New Way
We give you "Belief Shifting" posts to get people rethinking what they believe about issues in their lives. Using posts and guides for doing quick selfie videos, you begin to show people uninterested in "church" or "religion" that YOU have some profound insights for them about life.
We use some proven approaches to getting these mental shifts that prepare people to accept your offer of help you make in Step 2.
We give you everything you need already done for you to get their attention and offer them help!
Step 2: Engage Seekers with Seminars and Other Low-Commitment Events
Once you have attracted them, you engage with them by sending them emails and text messages (and Facebook/Instagram posts) inviting them to a live online event like a webinar or Facebook live so you can meet them, they can meet you, and you can start building a relationship with them. And they go from becoming aware of you to interested in you. Some will make a decision right away to visit your church, but the vast majority will need to start engaging with you in special events.
We give you everything you need to conduct these workshops! Plus all you need to get them to show up, already done for you!
STEP 2: Engage Them with Seeker Sensitive Sermon Series
Once you have attracted their attention and interest, you deliver a sermon series designed specifically for the unchurched. There are 5 key "Pillars" of a "Seeker Sensitive Sermon Series" and we give you thorough training in what those are. A series of 6 - 8 messages allows time for people to take notice "out there" and decide to attend or watch online.
We give you the actual sermon PowerPoints you can use as is or customize to conduct these series! Plus we give you targeted posts and customizable postcards and flyers to promote the series!
STEP 3: Nurture Them with Seeker-Sensitive Seminars and Other Low-Commitment Events
Now you engage with them by inviting them to a live event like a webinar or in-person seminar
so you can meet them, they can meet you, and you can start building a relationship with them.
And once they’ve come to a short seminar or other low-commitment event and started to trust you, then you can invite them to an ongoing Seeker-sensitive ministry at your church or somewhere else.
A 4-session workshop series or one day conference, or other seeker-sensitive ministries are excellent opportunities for them to get real help from you, meet some of your people, and become more open to your full ministry. You can also have 1:1 conversations with them via text, phone, or in-person.
We give you everything you need to conduct these workshops! Plus all you need to get them to sign up and show up, already done for you!
What Would a Steady Stream of Visitors Do For Your Ministry?
Here's What You Get When you Join Today:
TRAINING, COACHING & SUPPORT
Discover the Outreach and Marketing Strategies I Spent $50,000 Learning From People Who Have Mastered Online & Offline Marketing
You don't have to keep Googling for Ideas or spending money on conferences! I give you the best strategies developed by highly successful mentors I've studied with for years (and continue to study with).
Twice Monthly Group Training and Coaching Sessions by Dr. Nix (Via Zoom for Pastors Only)
Constantly upgrade your understanding of the strategies that are working today to grow churches. Topics include:
How to use social media to market your outreach events
How to promote events using proven launch strategies
How to grow and run a Facebook group
How to use email to draw people to your ministry
Strategies that are working to get people back in the building
How to better understand what non-Christians need today and how to draw them step-by-step
Much more
A members only Facebook support group
In between group coaching sessions, get continuous support and all your questions around strategy, marketing, and running Seeker-focused engaging events answered
Connect with like-minded pastors that are on the same journey.
Get an inside peak of what is working for others
Get personalized help implementing the strategy for your church
Keep up to date with what new resources there are in the Center
PLUS
Seeker-Sensitive Sermon Resources Vault
Sermons Designed SPECIFICALLY to Attract the Unchurched and De-Churched While Also Ministering to Members
With just one of our sermon series, Pastor Jacki grew her church by 50% in 3 weeks! She promoted it with our posts and ads that speak to people's needs and desires rather than using "churchy" language.
Another Pastor, Rev. Dr. Dennis Blackwell has been using one of our other programs to draw men who don't come to church normally.
PREACHING & MID-Week TEACHING RESOURCES
Use these tools to deliver an engaging "Seeker-Sensitive Sermon Series" on the same topic as the workshop. These sermons are designed to draw people who don't go to church.
Seeker-Sensitive Sermon Topics and Title Ideas: While God will lead you, of course, we find that many pastors aren't used to developing and titling sermons focused on the unchurched. So for whatever workshop outreach program you select, we'll give you lots of in-depth ideas designed to help you understand what people are struggling with and how you can reach them with sermons designed for them (members will also be blessed, of course, because they have the same needs as the unchurched.)
PowerPoint: If you use PowerPoints or other graphics when you preach (and most pastors do these days), we give you PowerPoint templates designed to match the workshop theme and colors. This helps get you better noticed because it takes time to cut through the noise and stand out as a pastor. Also use this PowerPoint template in your mid-week Bible study.
Training: I give you extra in-depth training on the Seeker-Sensitive Sermon Series approach based on my over 40 years as someone who has preached these kinds of sermons and taught those kinds of mid-week lessons (plus men's ministries), and taught Christian counseling and life change strategies to counselors and Pastors wanting to have more of an impact. You will find this training eye opening.
Facebook/Instagram Posts
Postcard Templates For Sundays & Midweek Bible Studies
Editable Flier Templates For Sundays & Midweek Bible Studies
PROMOTION Resources
Use these tools to get people to your your Sunday service and mid-week study:
Facebook/Instagram Promotional Posts: Start using these to get interest in this sermon series. You get the graphics which you can edit so you can put your picture, your address and dates, etc. and suggested text you can copy and paste, then edit to suit your exact message! Then ask your members and other people to share them as well.
Postcards: Another way to give people information about the sermon series. Edit the details on Canva. Then get your people to pass them out widely. Note: We suggest you promote both your Sunday message on a topic and your mid-week in-depth teaching on that same topic.
Fliers: Edit these (also on Canva) and then get them printed and handed out.
PROMOTION Resources
Use these tools to get people to your workshop:
You Get Professional Facebook/Instagram Posts and Ads to Put On Social Media
Start using these to get interest in this topic. You get the graphics and suggested (proven) text so all you have to do is copy and paste, then start posting one or two a day a few weeks before your workshop! And have your people share them as well.
You Get Editable Postcard Templates to Hand Out
Front side attracts their attention and the back side gives them the basic details and then tries to get them to go to the Information and Registration Page. Edit these (on Canva) and then get them printed and handed out. They are the easiest off-line way to get your people to hand them out to their friends, family members, co-workers, or anyone else they think might be interested.
You Get Editable Flier Templates to Hand Out
Edit these (also on Canva) and then get them printed and handed out. They can also be placed in barber shops, salons, nonprofit organizations, and other places (because you are not promoting something "religious" but a "community program".
Sample Information & Registration Page
If you do decide to set up a page for people to pre-register (which I recommend and which we obviously provide to the pastors in our full program), then here is excellent language for you to copy.
COMPLETE, PROVEN OUTREACH PROGRAMS
These Are Proven 2 or 3-Hour In-Person Low Commitment Events You Can Offer Every Month or Every Other Month to Draw in the Unchurched and Unsaved
You Get Professional Facebook/Instagram Posts and Ads to Put On Social Media
You Get Editable Postcard Templates to Hand Out
You Get Editable Flier Templates to Hand Out
Sample Information & Registration Page
PROMOTION Resources
Use these tools to get people to your workshop:
Facebook/Instagram Posts: Start using these to get interest in this topic. You get the graphics and suggested (proven) text so all you have to do is copy and paste, then start posting one or two a day a few weeks before your workshop! And have your people share them as well.
Postcards: Front side attracts their attention and the back side gives them the basic details and then tries to get them to go to the Information and Registration Page. Edit these (on Canva) and then get them printed and handed out. They are the easiest off-line way to get your people to hand them out to their friends, family members, co-workers, or anyone else they think might be interested. Don't ask me why, but I've found that members are more willing to invite people to "non-religious" events than to church, especially if they can just hand them a postcard or flier. I think it's because they feel people will see it as suggesting something that might help rather than "cramming religion" down their throats! Go figure.
Fliers: Edit these (also on Canva) and then get them printed and handed out. They can be placed in barber shops, salons, nonprofit organizations, and other places (because you are not promoting something "religious" but a "community program".
Sample Information and Registration Page: If you do decide to set up a page for people to pre-register (which I recommend and which we obviously provide to the pastors in our full program), then here is excellent language for you to copy.
TEACHING RESOURCES
Use these tools to deliver an engaging introductory presentation that wets their appetite for getting more of your teaching:
Workbook: The entire guide and worksheets are in one document. You will walk them through the guide using the PowerPoint, adding that "preaching/ministering" part as you go along introducing each section.
PowerPoint: The PowerPoint guides them through the handout. It doesn't add new content as you want to get them familiar with the main concepts that are in their workbook.
Remember this is only a 3-hour workshop (or run it as two 90-minute evening sessions) and just an "appetizer" for going further with you on their journey to their best self and a more fulfilling life.
It should leave them engaged, satisfied, but also hungry, knowing they need more help...from YOU and your ministry!
Sample Outreach Programs
We Have a Growing Library of Outreach Programs That You'll Be Able to Choose From. Here Are 3:
PROMOTION Resources
Use these tools to get people to your workshop:
You Get Professional Facebook/Instagram Posts and Ads to Put On Social Media
Start using these to get interest in this topic. You get the graphics and suggested (proven) text so all you have to do is copy and paste, then start posting one or two a day a few weeks before your workshop! And have your people share them as well.
You Get Editable Postcard Templates to Hand Out
Front side attracts their attention and the back side gives them the basic details and then tries to get them to go to the Information and Registration Page. Edit these (on Canva) and then get them printed and handed out. They are the easiest off-line way to get your people to hand them out to their friends, family members, co-workers, or anyone else they think might be interested.
You Get Editable Flier Templates to Hand Out
Edit these (also on Canva) and then get them printed and handed out. They can also be placed in barber shops, salons, nonprofit organizations, and other places (because you are not promoting something "religious" but a "community program".
Sample Information & Registration Page
If you do decide to set up a page for people to pre-register (which I recommend and which we obviously provide to the pastors in our full program), then here is excellent language for you to copy.
Other Church Growth Resources
Every Month or Two I Drop New Resources Designed to Help You Grow and Grow Your Ministry
COMPLETE MARKETING TOOLKITS
Get everything you need to get people to sign up and show up to your ministry events. We give you everything for our events, but we also give you templates you can customize for your own events (like a women's conference).
ChatGPT and Other AI for Pastors
Personal Branding Planner - Become Unignorable and Stand Out
Social Media Content Planner
Annual Church Marketing Planner
Avatars - Understand how people with various issues think so you can design programs for them and speak more powerfully to them!
Strategic Lead Magnet Workbook
Ultimate Course Launch Strategy Planner
Email Planner: Convert Subscribers into Church Members
Evergreen Webinar Planner
Facebook Ad Copy Templates
Sales Registration Page Planner and Copy Templates
plus more !
Get the Outreach Tools & Ongoing Support You Need
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