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Originally Posted by Pastor Poster
What kind of programs do you have?
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Young at Heart... ministering to the young at heart age 50+ in the church and community. A branch off from this also involves a nursing home ministry.
As For Me and My House.... Marriage enrichment ministry...
Front Line Ministries.... age 12 & up-- keeping the youth in the community involved through a Tuesday night youth service & fun night... and Sunday evening after service fellowship. We serve a refreshments after the services, open up the gym for playing basketball, etc... First service had 40 in attendance.... Second service had 80. Since then we've had at least 70 - 90 in attendance for each youth service, and had several receive the holy ghost.
We're working on a program of pairing up the youth with the senior citizens in the community that need help. They'll be doing yard work, taking them on errands, etc... Before I attended the church, they had something similar years ago-- called "Summer of Service".. We're gonna have to rename this program, because we want to continue it to be a year round thing.
Power Source -- Kids church for kids ages 5-11
High Voltage-- Kids church for kids under the age of 5...
Camp Yadah-- Summer Youth Camp for kids age 8 & up. For info:
www.campyadah.com 
We have also built an arena on some property behind the church. This is used for horse shows, rodeos etc that are reaching the "cowboys" in this area.
Also there are special services held like Friend Day, Baby Dedication Sunday, All Nations Sunday and others.... which draw in quite a few visitors. Friend Day is coming up May 4, and we're expecting 350-400 to be in attendance on that day.
Also, visitor information is ALWAYS followed up on without fail--more than once. People WILL return if they are made to feel that they haven't been forgotten after they walk out the church door after the first service they visit.
I was talking to a man at church yesterday who told me that he was raised in a pentecostal church, and had the holy ghost when he was younger. He'd drifted away, and gotten out of church in his early 20's. His wife had received the holy ghost the first time she visited our church in February at an event that was sponsored by the As For Me & My House Couples Ministry. A few services after that, he came with her to a service. He's only missed one service since that time when he was sick. He told me that they'd visited several pentecostal churches in the area before they visited our church. NONE of those other churches did a visitor followup. It was the fact that our church followed up on the information that made him want to come back again.
I'm not sure if I've mentioned everything or not... our church website is under construction, so I can't refer to it to help me remember everything...
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