Back to Church Sunday
St John's will be participating in "Back to Church Sunday" on Sunday, September 26, 2010. Its all very simple really. Its about inviting someone to come to church.
Back to Church Sunday is now the largest single local-church invitational initiative in the world. It is based on the simplest and shortest step in evangelism--that we should invite someone we already know to something we love. It involves inviting our friend to our church. The initial focus was to invite ‘back’ those who used to attend, but we want to ensure that anyone who doesn’t currently attend can be guaranteed a specially warm welcome.
BTCS has grown beyond all expectations since the first one in the UK, in Greater Manchester, in the in 2004. In 2009 a couple of parishes in Niagara and many parishes in Toronto participated. In the Diocese of Toronto more than 250 of the people who visited on that day decided to stay.
Some research shows that between 12 and 15% of the people who accept an invitation to come to church become regular attendees at the church where they visited. Imagine what might happen if all of us invited us someone to attend church with us on September 29. Let's plan to do that and see what amazing things God might do in our midst.