BONUS EPISODE: Breaking 200 – 🎉 Welcome Party
- September 24, 2026
- 11:00 AM CT
This Church Fuel Live series is all about Breaking 200 — or whatever growth threshold in next for your church!
Maybe you’ve never had trouble getting people to visit once. But it’s getting them to come back that’s the problem.
Maybe your churches back door is quietly leaking, and it’s one of the biggest hidden reasons churches get stuck under 200.
After going through the previous lessons in Breaking 200, the “Welcome Party” kept coming up! So we created this bonus episode dedicated entirely to: the Welcome Party. Nathan Teegarden will walk through exactly how to build a Welcome Party that turns first-time guests into connected church family, and to answer the flood of “how do we actually pull this off.”
Key Highlights of the call:
🎯 One Step, Not Ten: Why a single, clear next step beats a menu of options, and how the Welcome Party becomes that step.
⏱️ The Four-Week Window: Why guests connected within a month have up to an 80% chance of sticking around long-term, and what happens when churches wait too long to ask.
🤝 Friend Over Form: Why the real win of a Welcome Party is one guest making one friend, not a filled-out card.
🔄 The Fork in the Road: How the Welcome Party bridges “first-time guest” to “plugged-in member,” feeding people straight into small groups and serving teams.
🎤 Your Questions, Answered: Childcare, food, timing, portable venues, group size: we’ll tackle the real logistics live.
If your guests are visiting once and quietly disappearing, this is the missing piece.
Maybe you’ve never had trouble getting people to visit once. But it’s getting them to come back that’s the problem.
Maybe your churches back door is quietly leaking, and it’s one of the biggest hidden reasons churches get stuck under 200.
After going through the previous lessons in Breaking 200, the “Welcome Party” kept coming up! So we created this bonus episode dedicated entirely to: the Welcome Party. Nathan Teegarden will walk through exactly how to build a Welcome Party that turns first-time guests into connected church family, and to answer the flood of “how do we actually pull this off.”
Key Highlights of the call:
🎯 One Step, Not Ten: Why a single, clear next step beats a menu of options, and how the Welcome Party becomes that step.
⏱️ The Four-Week Window: Why guests connected within a month have up to an 80% chance of sticking around long-term, and what happens when churches wait too long to ask.
🤝 Friend Over Form: Why the real win of a Welcome Party is one guest making one friend, not a filled-out card.
🔄 The Fork in the Road: How the Welcome Party bridges “first-time guest” to “plugged-in member,” feeding people straight into small groups and serving teams.
🎤 Your Questions, Answered: Childcare, food, timing, portable venues, group size: we’ll tackle the real logistics live.
If your guests are visiting once and quietly disappearing, this is the missing piece.
