Looked At Four Churches, Contacted Two

Yesterday I looked at four churches online. I went to Google Maps, put in my street address then searched for church. Google returned ten results, and that jives with what I expected. There are a plethora of churches in my surrounding community, and many are less than ten minutes away. I just started going down the list and checking out websites.

I looked at the top five (read: closest) churches. That’s really all I had time to look at on my break at work. The first two did not list a singles group/class on their website, so I contacted them to see what they had to offer. The third church was the church I decided not to go to last Sunday, and after looking at their website, I’m pretty sure that’s a good decision for me. The fourth church looks like it’s a pretty small church. At the very least they have a pretty small website. The fifth church had a singles group listed. I didn’t contact them yesterday—they didn’t have a web form, just an email link. I think that’s the one I’ll try this Sunday.

For the two churches that did have web forms, this was the text I used:

Hi, my name is Joe. I'm a 30 year old single Christian in search of a church with a good singles program. Could you let me know what programs you offer?

Thanks.

That may be a little too simple, but we’ll see if it works. As of today, it hasn’t. Neither church I contacted responded, but it’s only been one day, and my experience in contacting churches is that they don’t respond quickly. My thinking is that I’ll only call a church if I’m really interested in what they have to offer, or if they appear really big and don’t supply a lot of info.

More to come as I get responses.