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Updated & Expanded: The Assimilation Seminar + Team Training

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Attention Pastors: Grow Your Church Faster Than Ever - Get the Completely Updated and Expanded Best-Selling Resource Proven to Keep More First-Time Guests! Brand New - Now with Team Edition. 

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Dear Pastor,

For most people, the process of growing in Jesus Christ starts when they come to church for the very first time.

Can you think back to when you entered a church for the first time? It can be an intimidating situation — not knowing where to park, where to go, who you will meet, how you will be welcomed, essentially what to expect from start to finish.

The challenge all of us face as church leaders: You have people attending each week for the first time but because of the scenario I described above, it’s difficult to get them to return to church for a second time. And if WE DON’T GET THEM TO COME BACK, they are never going to become fully developing followers of Jesus.

It’s such a challenge that the average church in America only keeps one out of every 20 people. That averages to about only 10 first-time guests per year.

Now imagine that same church making a few small changes and now improving that number to keep 1 out of every 10!

How many more lives could be transformed?

The great news is there IS a proven process to welcome first-time guests, get them to return again and again, and effectively move them to membership and an ongoing relationship with Christ.

It’s called Assimilation. I first developed this 10 years ago at The Journey Church and since then have implemented and improved these strategies with over 3,000 churches across all sizes and denominations. The turnarounds I’ve seen have been dramatic. Even with churches that are 100 to 150 years old and stagnant for a long time.

The fact is that nothing impacts the growth of your church FASTER than Assimilation­ — the process of welcoming first-time guests, keeping them coming back and eventually moving them to membership.

Wherever you are, and whatever stage of life you're in as a church, improving your Assimilation rate is going to have a dramatic impact on your church!

Now it wasn’t easy figuring this out in the very beginning — in fact, the struggle was very real! But I had to face this crisis of disbelief before the answers would come. Maybe you have a similar story . . .

The time God challenged me –
“Nelson, what are you doing with the first-time gifts
I’m sending you each Sunday?”

You may not know the early story of The Journey Church.

We began in a comedy club on the upper west side of Manhattan. After doing a series of monthly services, we launched on Easter Sunday and had 110 people show up.

I was ecstatic! I thought this was a great number to start with.

It was the next Sunday I learned my first principle of church growth as a new church planter in New York City: Everybody who comes on Easter Sunday does not come back the Sunday after!

A Crisis of Disbelief

We had 55 people come back, which I thought wasn’t bad – about half. But then I had an unpleasant surprise. Unfortunately, through my dynamic leadership and charismatic preaching, I grew the church down to 35 over the next three months!

I began having a crisis of disbelief. I began to have this conversation with God and asked him, “Why is this happening?” I began to sort of get mad at God and tell him all the things that I’d done for him – what I’d given up to start this church in New York City.

He interrupted my pity party and started to remind me of all the things he’d done for me, and how he’d provided for me all these years I’d been a Christian. Finally, I relented and asked for guidance — and God began to teach me some new things about being a pastor.

One of the first things I felt like God asked me is this question: “Nelson, what are you doing with the first-time gifts that I'm sending you each Sunday?”

Think about that language for a moment.

Every week, God entrusts each of us with first-time gifts. These are first-time people who choose to come to our church. I answered back to God, “Well, God, I'm counting them and that's pretty much it. I’m hoping they come back.”

Sound familiar?

An Effective System is Born

At this point I DID NOT have an intentional process to manage and follow up with even the few first-time guests we were seeing. But this is where it began, and with God’s guidance over time I developed the Assimilation System that I’m sharing with you today — a system that allows you to move someone from first-time guest to second-time guest to regular attender – all the way to fully-engaged member. 

This made all the difference for The Journey — within a couple of years, we were a church of 200. And then eventually as you may know — The Journey became one of the fastest growing churches in America.

You know how we launched with 110 people? I remember, many years later, when we had 110 first-time guests!

These results are not unusual for us or for the more than 3,000 churches who have implemented the Assimilation System and seen dramatic results.

It’s really all about people. It’s about those gifts that God is entrusting to you. So I’ll ask you the same question he asked me all those years ago:

What are YOU doing with the first-time gifts that God is sending you each Sunday?”

Introducing my most powerful, proven resource to date – 10 YEARS IN THE MAKING!

Completely UPDATED & EXPANDED:
The NEW Assimilation Seminar + Team Edition

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Updated with the latest learnings and strategies that have worked in my church and over 3,000 other churches across all sizes and denominations.

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Organized for team training with seven powerful sessions that you can go through at your own pace — easily one per week! 

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Designed for easy implementation with your team. Everything is laid out for you in a logical step-by-step fashion to make it easy to get up and running quickly! Including the 91-page comprehensive Assimilation Strategy Editable Document and all the editable Assimilation documents used at The Journey Church and over 3,000 of my Coaching Alumni churches.

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AND FOR THE FIRST TIME – you will have a Team Training Option! Train your staff and key leaders — I will be right there on screen walking you through each of the seven sessions of training.

IN THE STUDIO

I went back in to completely rerecord and re-engineer this powerful teaching. Plus create a new DVD video version! (they don't tell you how bright those lights are going to be either!)

Each session will have specific action steps you can take so you are building your process each week in a repeatable, sustainable way for visible results:

Ultimately, this seminar about life transformation.

When I first made a decision to go to church, I was an adult. It was all very unfamiliar to me but I vividly remember that experience. For me, it started what has now been a lifetime transformation process. It’s what led me to Christ, what led me to baptism, what led me to grow, what led me to understand God’s word and radically transformed my life.

I’m sure as you think about your story, that’s true for you as well. Your life has been transformed because some church cared for you and assimilated you. They helped you go from stranger to guest to family member to fully engaged follower.

Now it’s your turn as a pastor commissioned to reach more people for Christ. How will you make this the year that you keep and assimilate more first-time guests?

Praying you will join me, the pastors you met above and over 3,000 other churches in radically growing your church through the power of Assimilation!

 

Nelson Searcy

P.S. Remember, this brand new, step-by-step, "Done-for-You" resource contains everything you need to implement the Assimilation System in YOUR church!

Plus, this resource comes with my 100% No-Hassle, 365-Day Money-Back Guarantee! Take your time to listen to and implement the strategies in this resource. If you are not fully satisfied, just return it ANYTIME WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR for a full no-hassle, no questions asked refund.

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FREE Two-Month Test Drive of the Renegade Pastors Network ($198.00 value)

Get full access to Nelson Searcy's Renegade Pastors Network for 2 months! This monthly coaching for senior pastors equips you to abandon average in your life and ministry. Include monthly training calls, monthly training packages in your mailbox, a private online membership website — with access to more bonus resources, email access to Nelson, and Renegade discounts on all resources and events. 

Plus you’ll get a FREE copy of Nelson’s foundational book, The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry ($19.95 value).

Note: Your membership will continue at the current investment amount of $99/month after the 60-day trial period. There are no refunds after 15 days following my first $99 charge. You can cancel anytime. 

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If you have any questions you can email [email protected] or call 561.921.8488. 

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Meet Dr. Nelson Searcy

Nelson Searcy is the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. By God’s grace, he identified and developed the Eight Systems of a Healthy Church® that he has used to coach over 5,000 churches in the US and around the world to adapt those eight systems to their unique ministry fields, resulting in great health and growth.

Nelson regularly coaches pastors online and in-person through the Church Leader Insights and Renegade Pastors Network ministries that he founded. He also leads several annual pastor in-person conferences and online training events. In ministry for more than 25 years, Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as “The 50 Most Influential Churches” and “The 25 Most Innovative Leaders.”

He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 20+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry, The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, and Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests Into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church. Nelson is the recipient of the prestigious Donald A. McGavran Award for Outstanding Leadership in Great Commission Research.

He is a longtime student of church history, especially mastering the areas of evangelism and church growth. He divides his time between NYC and South Florida. He battled Stage 4 cancer and has been cancer-free since 2018, praise God! He has an amazing wife, Kelley, and a teenage son, Alexander, who continues to grow in so many ways.