An Easy Way to Increase Sunday School
Sunday school has been part of the woodwork for so long that many churches forget to invite new people to join it. When the ushers of Central Baptist Church in Aurora, Colorado, hand you a visitor's card, it includes a separate box to check: "• PLEASE enroll me in your BIBLE STUDY program." The next line asks for date of birth in order to determine class placement. Does it bring any results? "Since using this card," reports Pastor Danny Williams, "we are enrolling 10 percent of our morning worship visitors—which is 10 percent more than we were enrolling! Every time someone checks the box, we send a card that tells what time Sunday school begins, who the person's teacher will be, and what room to go to. And they show up." In other words, it never hurts to ask.
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