Round 3: ‘Maximising the Mess’ Mondays: How do we increase our numbers?
‘How can we get more people to come?’
We all go through ups and downs with our Messy Churches. Sometimes it only takes a class birthday party or Scout camp to decimate numbers. Sometimes families in their busy lives simply move on or change circumstances and have to stop coming. Messy Church can be a serene presence and a constant through all this, but so that we don’t get complacent about dropping numbers, here’s a checklist of suggestions to make sure we’ve done all we can to get the invitation out there.
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