If you can type, open and send email and know how to use your printer, you qualify for ConnectionPower™.

ConnectionPower™ is a complete turnkey ministry solution. Once you subscribe, there are 6 easy steps to full implementation.

ConnectionPower™ takes visitor information data as entered by your Director or assistant and matches your visitors on key criteria to your volunteers who are called Connection Partners. Connection Partners receive visitor call assignments via email. After Connection Partners complete their call assignments they electronically send their call results, via their personalized ConnectionPower™ web page, back to the Director. The touch and track cycle is continued for up to six weeks.

With ConnectionPower™, you’re reaching visitors with personal context-sensitive contacts immediately. Because this is a web-based system, you benefit from “real time” two-way communication. The technology has been made very simple to use so your focus can be on church growth.

We know from experience that every church struggles with volunteer recruitment and retention.
ConnectionPower™ requires the commitment from one of your staff members: maybe a staff pastor who becomes the CP Director and an administrative assistant utilized for data entry.

Then a mere handful of volunteers of various ages, backgrounds and life situations are your Connection Partners. They receive from one to a few weekly call assignments to complete on their own time - around their schedules - from the comforts of home.

ConnectionPower™ inspires new people to get involved because of its compelling vision. When you couple this with an ease of involvement and the simplicity/efficiency of the process, you have a ministry that you can promote and sustain with ease. For example, volunteers love the fact that they can serve from the comfort of their homes while in their slippers!

ConnectionPower™ has built in safeguards, unlike other ministries, that put your Connection Partners in constant control of their involvement. They set the number of calls per week that they’ll be asked to make. Connection Partners can accept or reject each call request—guilt free. They can even log themselves out of ministry availability for vacations, travel or busyness.

But most importantly, ConnectionPower™ enables each volunteer to see how many of the people that they touch come to know Christ and how many join their church. These powerful motivational stories keep morale sky-high!

We’ve simplified ConnectionPower™ technology to allow your focus and your volunteers’ efforts to be on growth.

With a wholehearted commitment from the senior pastor and leadership, ConnectionPower™ can be up and running smoothly in as little as one month.

ConnectionPower™ is a turnkey solution, providing you with instructions, software and downloadable training manuals and presentations. Simple technology gives you a strategy for growth.

The initial time requires your church to promote for recruitment and train the volunteers.

Whether you have one pastor to thirty, or whether you offer only a couple basic ministries to a hundred, ConnectionPower™ fits you.

ConnectionPower™ is totally upward or downward scalable. You can add as many ministries as your church offers. You can also add as many staff pastors along with their areas of responsibility as you have. This creates customized connection points for visitors with your church.

No matter what size your church is today, every pastor faces daily pressure to grow the church.

Since visitors represent 100% of your church’s potential, ConnectionPower™ initially focuses on visitor retention. Small churches tout the benefits of relational, personal groups over multiple ministry options. Larger churches rely on small group ministries and a diversity of ministry offerings to draw and connect visitors to their church.

Regardless of church’s size, ConnectionPower™ is a turnkey, outward reaching program that directly links visitors to your church ministries instead of relying on your visitor to connect himself.

Free yourself from a self-service mindset towards your visitors!
ConnectionPower™ technology is a simple means for growing your church.

The Connection Partner’s task of connecting visitors into the small church is more relational than in a large church. A small church lacks the breadth of age-graded ministries that a larger church has. Many pastors of small churches know the pain of watching visitors with teenage children leave to find another church that offers a credible youth ministry. While the small church lacks a variety of programs, it has certain natural strengths that larger churches do not have. Small churches, unlike larger churches, do not have to work as hard at maintaining a sense of intimacy and at developing a community where individuals and their needs are known. Small churches that want to grow will need to play to their strengths. Accordingly, Connection Partners in the small church need to focus more on relational connections versus connecting them to ministries. While experience teaches one to never underestimate the power of caring phone calls, Connection Partners who offer to meet visitors before the service or out for coffee or after church for lunch will be especially effective in the small church. The ConnectionPower™ Director position, in the small church, can be fulfilled by the church secretary, the senior pastor or a faithful layperson that is committed to touching and reaching outsiders. Given the lack of need meeting ministries in the small church, the director will need to focus on matching the interests of visitors with those of their Connection Partners. The ConnectionPower™ training manual notes for small churches makes these relational connections a top priority.

In addition to increased intimacy, the small church also has the strongest innate tendency of any sized church to become a closed fellowship that can repel visitors who are looking for a place to belong. If ConnectionPower™ becomes an ongoing and church-wide priority, it serves to keep the small church outward focused and committed to a posture of friendliness towards outsiders who want to join in the fun. The church that would navigate through the small-sized church stage and beyond is the church that learns how to overcome its lack of programs and to strategically connect visitors into the few relational circles that exist.

Churches in this category inevitably lose some of the intimacy of the small church but they have usually developed and put into place many more ministries. Churches of this size usually have a functional youth ministry, children’s ministry, nursery ministry, women’s ministry, men’s ministry, and music ministry. They also usually have at least the start of a small group ministry. These ministries provide key connection points for visitors where Connection Partners can connect them into their church. Once attached to these ministries, visitors begin to make the kinds of relational attachments that make them long-term adherents. The visitor now begins to experience two levels of relational warmth: first, the initial warmth of targeted Connection Partners who help connect them to small groups; and second, the long-term relational warmth of a small group where they study, worship or serve together. The church that would navigate through the medium-sized church stage and beyond is the church that learns how to both develop and launch new ministries and how to effectively connect visitors into those ministries. To maximize the connection potential of the medium sized church, the ConnectionPower™ Director will need to recruit a volunteer force of Connection Partners who can provide direct connections into as many ministries of the church as possible. Building connections into small groups where a person and their needs can become known is increasingly important for the medium sized church.

Additionally, ConnectionPower™ has the potential to continually impact the attitude of key church adherents towards visitors. These are the people who will grow your church. If the church is to remain outward focused and committed to a posture of friendliness and openness towards outsiders, ConnectionPower™ will need the ongoing public support of top church leadership. It is strongly recommended in the medium sized church that the ConnectionPower™ Director be a part-time paid position. An existing staff pastor or a dependable secretary can adequately fulfill this role in addition to their regular duties.

Large churches have covered all the bases of age-graded ministries and have usually begun to develop some effective need-meeting ministries. What the large church lacks in congregational-wide intimacy (the hallmark of the small church) it can more than make up for through its network of small groups. These mini congregations represent places where visitors and their needs can be known and as such provide powerful connection points into the church community. However, just like the small church, these small groups can become fellowships that are closed to outsiders. The challenge is to provide numerous easy pathways for strangers to become a part of these intimate circles of belonging. While constantly starting new groups can increase the existence of open groups, this strategy provides no guarantee that visitors will find their way into your church. What is often lacking is a reliable mechanism that proactively connects visitors into available fellowship or ministry opportunities. ConnectionPower™ provides this mechanism.

In the large church ConnectionPower™ needs to be viewed as more than another ministry in the plethora of ministries available. ConnectionPower™ is better viewed as an overriding mindset, an attitude towards outsiders that infuses all of the ministries of the church. ConnectionPower™ has the potential, if adopted as a central value of the church, to foster an attitude of openness in the hearts and minds of your key laity. This attitude shift will result in increased visitor retention and church growth. The large church that would navigate through the large-sized church stage and beyond is the church that learns how to connect strangers into its communities. Visitors need to be strategically touched, responsibly tracked and intentionally connected for sustained church growth to occur in the large church. ConnectionPower™ is a proven tool that does just that.

It is highly recommended that the ConnectionPower™ Director in the large church be a paid position. This part-time job can easily be included under the portfolio of an existing staff member. The volume of visitors in a large church requires a team of at least 15 dependable Connection Partner volunteers. Some churches find it helpful to put a support net of existing secretaries behind the volunteer team by adding a couple of weekly connection partner calls per week to their existing duties. This can easily be accomplished in the large church.

The very large church has all of the issues of the large church mentioned above but with greater intensity. Please read the above section.

In a church of thousands a visitor can quickly feel completely lost in the crowd and too intimidated to respond to the veritable booklet that advertises the huge variety of need-meeting ministries offered by the church. Customer service becomes paramount if people are to find their way into the church’s communities.

The very large church, in many cases, is comprised of several small, medium and large congregations. Some of these sub-congregations can be growing while others are declining. But the process of growth is the same in every case. New people will have to find their way into meaningful circles of belonging within each of these sub-congregations. Every church, no matter its size grows one visitor at a time. And visitors in every sized church have the same needs to belong and/or to serve. The very large church, given its predictable back door rate, will need to sustain a large influx of new adherents if it is to grow. This will require a comprehensive and a reliable mechanism that connects visitors into the church. ConnectionPower™ provides a proven mechanism that powerfully accomplishes this objective. The ConnectionPower™ software gives the ability for a church to add unlimited ministries and ministry leaders to its connection network.

ConnectionPower offers flexibility for varying implementations of ConnectionPower™ in the very large church.

In either case, your team of volunteer Connection Partners will need to be supported by some secretaries who add in a few Connection Partner calls every week in addition to their normal weekly duties. Depending on your ministry philosophy and practices you may choose to avoid volunteers altogether and to hire 3-4 inexpensive part-time hourly people to handle their Connection Partner calls.

The term customer service, when applied to the church, sounds strange to some and perhaps unspiritual to others. But whatever you call it, customer service is a real and basic requirement of every enterprise that attempts to serve people who walk through their front door. Customer service fundamentally asks, “How can I help?” Great customer service tries to anticipate the needs of others and works to develop offerings and services that meet those needs ahead of time. WalMart has greeters at the door and employees emblazoned with the words, “How can I help you?” Nordstroms has friendly employees who initiate offers of assistance and personal buyers who know the needs of select clients and watch for new inventory and items on sale.

ConnectionPower™ empowers a church to execute great customer service towards its visitors. New visitors are contacted within 24 hours of their initial visit. Initiative is taken to begin the process of discovering their story along with their needs and desires. If they are in crisis or express a need they are given personal information about the available ministry opportunities in the church to meet that need. When the Connection Partner enters the results of their call the ConnectionPower™ Director can immediately assign a ministry leader to call the person and personally invite them to the ministry event. Imagine the power of someone from a divorce care group calling a visitor who is struggling with the fresh pain of divorce and who visited church last Sunday looking for hope and for answers to their pain. This is great customer service! Multiply these effects with a year’s worth of visitors encountering great customer service towards the need-meeting ministries of your church week in and week out and imagine the cumulative difference this will make in lives.