Visitor follow-up is a good time to present information on church programs. First Church of the Nazarene includes such information with its bakery gifts. Burns gives each visitor a cassette tape explaining various aspects of the church and answering questions visitors have asked over the years. Pastor Glen Martin of Community Baptist Church, Manhattan Beach, California, gives visitors a videotape explaining the church programs. In The best way to keep visitors in the church is to plug them into its programs and people.
People are like LegoTM blocks.
When they're all plugged in, they're harder to pull apart. Cleggs also suggests that churches help new members find a place to serve with their unique gifts. That Loving Touch To integrate people into the church, we must remember what it feels like to be a stranger, say Clegg and Mertz. Mertz says that pastors or church staffers can't be the only ones responsible for visitor contact and follow-up. No matter how personable the pastor, if the congregation doesn't have the same attitude, people will not stay in the church.