The Buzz Conference: PreConference Session - 6/27 NCC Undercover - Joel Schmidgall

Here's what struck me from Joel Schmidgall's talk on 6/27 as a part of NCC Undercover

• Joel shared 10 best practices for Outreach. Here are some of them.
  
  
• Mix it up - have all kinds of outreach efforts. They have
  
  
• a ministry to the homeless
• kids' movie nights
• back to school carnivals
• handing out water on the 4th of July at Metro stops
• etc
  
  
• Joel said that if you don't have a few failures then you're not doing enough.
  
  
• Have a few uncontainable neighborhood events every year.
  
  
• this puts the church on the radar screen of the neighborhood
  
  
• Go after the people that nobody wants and you'll get the people that everybody wants.
  
  
• Blog your mission trips so that folks at home will also benefit from your team's spiritual adventure.
  
  
• Joel has a list of all the local news media - newspaper, tv - contacts and whenever NCC plans a big event, he emails them a month in advance of the event.
  
  
• Take advantage of local grants for these events

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