How to get your local church interested   

You might think this is impossible - but just maybe you'll be surprised!

A lot of Christians get very little information about God's work outside their local area. So it's not surprising they don't seem to be interested is it? And the poor vicar is too busy keeping the roof up to keep them informed. Now let's suppose someone (you?) is prepared to spend a bit of time at it.... how to do you set about it?

1. Find some information yourself - contact Crosslinks

2. Talk to the vicar, then make - and keep up to date - a display board about Crosslinks. Crosslinks can supply material

3. See if you can get your church linked to a Crosslinks mission partner. Then you can get information about them, email them, telephone them, get them to visit next time they are in the UK. A mission partner likes to visit a church where someone (you?) has prepared the way - and the congregation already knows a bit about them.

4. Or you could take on a Crosslinks project - here's how.

5. Make sure prayer letters (from your link missionary ideally) are handed to those in the congregation who might be interested. (By the way - a good way of getting a heap of paper for recycling is to leave the prayer letters in a pile at the back of the church for people to pick up.....)

6. Make sure you have up to date news to use in prayer times in church and in home  groups. If the vicar is reminded a few times, and you are vaguely competent, he or she will let you share a bit of news at some main services.

7. When you do get a link missionary, you could make their day by making them feel welcome when they visit. Apart from the fact that your work will have made sure people know them before they come, you could make sure their time is well used while they are with you, and perhaps arrange for them to have meals with different people in the church.

See also our Stakeholder page and our Projects page