Sunday School High Attendance Promotions

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Sunday SchoolHigh AttendancePromotions

• Using High Attendance Days and Events to Build
  Your Sunday School Program
• -Thomas J. Cook 1997

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The Jersey Baptist Church

• Some Background
• John A. Hays, Pastor
• Phil Duncan, Associate Pastor
• Jeff Hiett, Associate Pastor
• Thomas J. Cook, Bible Teaching Director

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Results of High Attendance Promotions

• Reach More People
• Reach Uninvolved Members and Unreached Prospects
• Increase Excitement and Enthusiasm
• Model Good Sunday School Work
• Focus Class Members on Outreach
• Prove the Possibilities

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Potential Problems

• Major on Ongoing Sunday School Program
• Match Your Churchs Personality
• Magnify People, not the Goal
• Manage the Motivation
• Plan for Success
• Dont Escalate to Extravagance
• Follow Through!

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A Case StudyFamily Feud 94

• Jersey Baptist ChurchversusWhitehall Baptist
  Church
• August, 1994

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Family Feud Results
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Family Feud Results
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Elements of Promotions

• Commitment
• Goals
• Celebration
• Communication

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Commitment

• Leadership
• The Pastor is the Key
• Sunday School Council Leads Planning
• Sunday School Worker Support is Critical
• Involvement
• Class and Individual Participation

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Goals

• Ownership
• Bottom-Up Goal Setting
• Based on Good Data
• S.M.A.R.T

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Celebration

• Recognition
• Class and Individual Level
• Awards?
• Give God the Glory!

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Communications

• The Single Most Important Element in Success
• Publicity
• Promotion
• Keep Up the Excitement!

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Summer Promotions

• 1996 Summer Olympics
• 1995 Fabulous Fifties
• 1994 Family Feud
• 1993 World Series
• 1992 (Building Program)
• 1991 Blue and Gray

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High Attendance Sundays

• Time Change Sunday (End of October)
• First Sunday in March
• Dont Overdo!

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Fall HAS

• Build on Natural High for Time Change Sunday
• Get New Year Off to Right Start
• Every Class Sets an Attendance Goal
• Focus on Membership Contacts
• Encourage Classes to Contact Every Member

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Spring HAS

• Lay Foundation for Easter Growth Season
• Focus on Prospect Contacts
• Spring/Easter Theme
• Involve Class Members in Contacts
• Set Goal or Meet Previous Record

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Friend Day

• Elmer Townes Package
• Idea Every SS Member Invites a Friend
• Leadership Models Commitments
• Pastor
• SS Director, Deacons
• Sunday School Teachers
• Members
• Ask for Signed Commitment to Be My Friend

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Other Ideas

• Tel-A-Body
• ProViCan
• Super Summer in Sunday School
• Red and Blue Campaign
• Picture Sunday
• Banana Sunday (Be One of the Bunch)
• Marvelous May Marathon
• Summer Fishing Contest