Learn best practices your church can use to increase in-person and online worship attendance.
For most congregations, attracting new people was a challenge even before the pandemic. Now, churches must focus not only on the continuing need to reach new people but also on reconnecting with the sizable percentage of those who attended regularly before COVID-19 but have not yet returned to the pews. In this timely and important webinar recording, Rev. Dr. F. Douglas Powe Jr., Rev. Dr. Lovett H. Weems Jr., and Rev. Dr. Jessica Anschutz share ways to improve your congregation’s in-person and online worship attendance.
Presenters
Rev. Dr. F. Douglas Powe Jr. is director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership and James C. Logan Professor of Evangelism (an E. Stanley Jones Professorship) and Professor of Urban Ministry at Wesley Theological Seminary.
Rev. Dr. Lovett H. Weems Jr. is distinguished professor of church leadership at Wesley Theological Seminary and senior consultant to Wesley’s Lewis Center for Church Leadership.
Rev. Dr. Jessica L. Anschutz is co-editor of Leading Ideas and teaches in the Doctor of Ministry program at Wesley Theological Seminary. She also serves as Senior Pastor of a three-point charge in the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Related Resources
- 5 Practices for Fruitful Congregations in a Post-Attractional Era by Robert Schnase
- 4 Critical Areas of Support for Virtual Worship by Olu Brown
- 50 Ways to Increase Worship Attendance, a free Lewis Center resource
- Lessons from the Fresh Expressions Movement by Luke Edwards — Podcast episode | Podcast video | In-depth interview
- Participation & Presence: Leading Meaningful Digital Worship, a Lewis Center webinar recording
- Hybrid Evangelism: The New Reality for Congregations, a Lewis Center webinar recording
- Overflow: Increase Worship Attendance & Bear More Fruit by Lovett Weems and Tom Berlin
