Our church is reviewing our midweek programs. Can you help us?
Our church does not serve dinner with our midweek program. Has serving dinner been successful? Do more people to come to the church programs if you offer a meal?
How long are your classes? When do you start and when do you finish? Presently our programs runs from 7:00 to 8:30. Do you have something else that works well?
Programs are offered for children in 3rd to 8th grade. Should we start inviting 1st and 2nd grade to our programs? Should we spit the group into 3rd to 5th grade and 6th to 8th grade. What works for you? What doesn’t work?
Please share your experience!
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We do serve a full blown meal, and it has been very successful -- we serve 350-400 people each week. At a previous church, we saw an increase in attendance when we started serving pizza every week (although after a while, people got tired of the same thing and attendance drifted off a bit).
This year we cut back our timing, running from 6:30 - 7:45 instead of going until 8:00. This has been received very positively by our families with young children, and we will continue this timing next fall (maybe even cutting back to 7:30).
Hope it helps!
We have tiny little GEMS and Cadets programs at my church. One of the core leaders for GEMS is moving this year, and we're trying to figure out whether we should keep the programs or try to partner with another church. Perhaps we would offer to host Cadets and send our GEMS girls and leaders to another program.
If anyone has experience with ministry partnerships, I'd love to hear any pros, cons, or cautions in moving forward.
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