Hello Church,
Engage, Engage, Engage....
Implementation is always the most difficult of all the phases to complete when re-inventing yourself. I find that to be true personally as well as corporately. This is true for a church as well. Sitting around and talking about it is easy. Actually doing it is not always easy.
So it is important to celebrate when God works through us and something new works. Any win at all is a good win and, in my opinion, we are having our first big win as a renewed, engaging church.
The Personal Discipleship Team started posting daily devotions on Emmanuel's Facebook page. It is an effort to engage the social media world in a more intentional way. Facebook keeps stats on who looks, clicks and shares the posts we make. 7 people took a day of the week and wrote a devotional. Here are the results.
1,400+ people received an Emmanuel post (compared to our average of about 400)
400+ people engaged a post, meaning they clicked on it or shared it with someone else (compared to our average of about 130)
This was just the first week, but it would seem Emmanuel has made an impact of some sort... certainly more engagement than we typically do. I believe this is a first of more to come in all kinds of ministry areas.
The key is for you to do something. Engaging in our new ideas is what creates wins. More opportunities are here and will continue to be made available. Get involved in something. You can help Emmanuel be a more engaging church.
God is Good,
Pastor Joe
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