The church provides the cards and the postage stamps. For recruits, we began with the chairman of deacons, who is now responsible for the full-time church staff. Each full-time staff member is also responsible for five families. A staff member monitors changes in assignments and posts them weekly. When there is an illness, death, or emergency, the church is typically notified by the InReach minister.
Numerous members report they are being contacted for the first time since they joined the church.
To follow up visitors to our worship service, our church began a cookie delivery on Sunday afternoons. About 2 p.m., a church member drives to the home of the visitor, delivers homemade cookies and a visitor packet, and invites the visitor back to church. The following week, a different church member sends or delivers a note and a coffee mug bearing the church name. At each home, after caroling, present candy canes. Afterward, meet at a church member's home to pray for the people to whom you've given invitations.