Sometimes it is not enough to create a ministry with the right heart and mind. Modern church life takes hard work and sometimes good marketing of your church values. If you work hard and are seeing less attendance, especially by the younger generation, here are some tips.
Align The Church With Today’s Culture
Engage with the youth of today and don’t be afraid to use social media channels to help spread the vision of the church and its mission. Consult marketing agencies for a content creation strategy that works best to spread your passion and mission to others.
Be Clear About Your Vision And Purpose
Have a clear vision of what your church wants to accomplish and how you are going to achieve this. Set your mission statement and put this up on your website or pamphlets. Honesty and consistent transparency will get you faithful, younger church members.
Try a Marketing Strategy
Marketing is important for any business or corporation and this is no different for faith-based organizations either. A market strategy will help you to get the word out about your Sunday services. It is therefore essential that you use good marketing channels (and companies if needed). With good communication channels, you can gain potential congregation members, and/or let existing knowledge about the church schedule and activities planned for the week.
Plan Youth-Based Programs
To attract younger adults, teenagers, or millennials, you should plan activities based solely on these youth groups. The activities can include worship service, bible studies practice, donation drives, etc. Youth-based programs will also help young people to form friendships within the church and lifelong relationships.
Ensure You Have Good Leadership
A church needs to have good leadership, good sermons, and good people who are dedicated to helping the church. In addition to these factors, leaders and members need to be on board with assisting the youth and helping to incorporate younger adults into the church. Inter-generational churches have great leadership centered on bringing all generations together and encouraging members to form intergenerational relationships committed to worshipping God.
Seek Support
They say it takes a village to raise a child. To teach a child faith is no different as it takes a group of members coming together. Seek support from the congregation, community members, and youth leaders that are willing to help out the church with youth-based activities. Working together can help spread the word of the church, its mission and also convince more younger members to give the church life a try.
Get Enough Funding
Church youth activities don’t happen overnight and it takes funds to arrange for these activities. Ensure you receive enough funding before starting youth programs and youth-based events. Ask church members for help if needed, pledge for donations, or if needed, arrange activities in public areas such as planning youth sporting activities at beaches or parks.
