Monthly Guides
Make Progress Every Month
We’ve put together a monthly guide to help you start making progress right now. Each month, we’ll offering action steps, resources, and some encouragement along the way.
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October
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
Monthly Guide
- Ministry Season
“There are people on the other side of your faithfulness! Pray & persevere.”
- October
Prayer Focus: Pray for volunteers and for people in your church to be passionate about personal evangelism!
Christmas Planning
This month, you should hold your team’s first Christmas planning Meeting
Monthly Goals:
Church Fuel recommends you take these steps this month:
- Execute your Fall Trunk-or-Treat events! 🎃
- Start Christmas Planning 🎄
- Focus on building systems around these Growth Accelerator 🚀
- Resources we highlighted in September
- Events in September
Additional Resources
How Do I Get My Congregation to Invite: Youtube Series!
Grow Tasks
- Work on Fall Event Invite Ads
- Work on Your High-Performing Website Pages
- Attend Weekly Member Call: Google Growth Hacks
Coaching Tasks
- Attend all Weekly Member Calls on Tuesdays!
- If you struggle recruiting volunteers, particularly with your Fall events, October is a good month to get coaching on that. We recommend one of the coaches below! Click their name to book your call with them!
- Ryan Brooks
- Matt Anderson
- Brad Wicks
October Member Events
NASA Effect w/ John-Erik Moseler
Oct 1
Oct 8
Leadership Launch Party 🎉
Planning Christmas Lab
Oct 15
Leadership Launch Party – Part 2
Oct 22
Google Growth Hacks w/ John-Erik Moseler
Oct 29
Leadership
Book Breakdown: The Art of Explanation
Volunteers
Huddle Talks
Connections
10 Connect Card Tips
Giving
Giving Talks
October
Monthly Guide
- Ministry Season
“There are people on the other side of your faithfulness! Pray & persevere.”
- October
Prayer Focus: Pray for volunteers and for people in your church to be passionate about personal evangelism!
Christmas Planning
This month, you should hold your team’s first Christmas planning Meeting
Monthly Goals:
Church Fuel recommends you take these steps this month:
- Execute your Fall Trunk-or-Treat events! 🎃
- Start Christmas Planning 🎄
- Focus on building systems around these Growth Accelerator 🚀
- Resources we highlighted in September
- Events in September
Additional Resources
How Do I Get My Congregation to Invite: Youtube Series!
Grow Tasks
- Work on Fall Event Invite Ads
- Work on Your High-Performing Website Pages
- Attend Weekly Member Call: Google Growth Hacks
Coaching Tasks
- Attend all Weekly Member Calls on Tuesdays!
- If you struggle recruiting volunteers, particularly with your Fall events, October is a good month to get coaching on that. We recommend one of the coaches below! Click their name to book your call with them!
- Ryan Brooks
- Matt Anderson
- Brad Wicks
October Member Events
NASA Effect w/ John-Erik Moseler
Oct 1
Oct 8
Leadership Launch Party 🎉
Planning Christmas Lab
Oct 15
Leadership Launch Party – Part 2
Oct 22
Google Growth Hacks w/ John-Erik Moseler
Oct 29
Leadership
Book Breakdown: The Art of Explanation
Volunteers
Huddle Talks
Connections
10 Connect Card Tips
Giving
Giving Talks
November
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December
Check back for updates
January
Monthly Guide
- Momentum Season
- January
Prayer Focus: For your Church to reach more people than ever before!
Goals for this month:
- Review the “Grow Your Church Calendar”
- Take the Church Marketing Assessment
- Host a Welcome Party to connect people who started coming during Christmas
- Create your 2024 Ministry Plan: Two Page Plan
Create & promote your Christmas Landing page and let the Google Ads team know what you’re doing for Christmas so that they can start running ads.
Each January, we host a special workshop designed to help your church develop a ministry play to see more visitors, more volunteers, and more giving in the coming year. It’s a great way to kick-start your 2024.
Register
February
Monthly Blueprint
- Momentum Season
- February
Prayer Focus: For people in your church to be passionate about personal evangelism and for life-changing stories to come out of your church.
Goals for this month:
- Run a Personal Evangelism initiative
- Witness Personal Evangelism Kit
- 21 Days of Hope Guide
- Start Easter Planning
- Download new connect cards
- Utilize the Ultimate Easter Kit
- Launch a Google Ads Campaign to Promote Easter
Easter
Ads
March
Monthly Blueprint
- Momentum Season
- March
Prayer Focus: For God’s divine favor to open doors for you to preach the gospel.
Goals for this month:
- Let’s Celebrate Easter
- Social Ads Strategy & Plan
- Plan Your after-Easter Comeback Series
- Get Your Church’s Follow-up Plan Ready for Easter
April
Monthly Blueprint
- Momentum Season
- April
Prayer Focus: Pray that the seeds you planted on Easter will reap a harvest in this upcoming season.
Goals for this month:
- Post Eater Checklist
- Do a “Post-Easter Debrief Meeting”
What went well?
What would we like to improve or do differently?
What’s 1 story you can share from Easter?
Is our follow-up system working? (Were we able to get contact information & have we started conversations with people?)
What things do we want to remember for our next event or Easter next year?
- Host a Welcome Party for your new Easter peeps! (Pun intended)
- Implement New Believer’s Kit (Journey Kit)
- Prepare for Mother’s Day
- Attend the Summer Prep Lab!
In this lab, we will focus on helping you create systems so you’re ready for your next momentum season. You’ll get to choose from Volunteer Recruitment, Recurring Giving, and a Discipleship Pathway.
Post Easter Checklist
Implement New Believer’s Kit (Journey Kit)
Preparing for Mother’s Day
Social Ministry Guide
Google Ads Campaign Launch
Create & promote your Mother’s Day Landing page and let the Google Ads team know what you’re doing for Mother’s Day so that they can start running ads.
May
- May
Prayer Focus: Pray for fresh wisdom, vision, and direction for this upcoming season!
Goals for this month:
- Mothers Day!
- Host an awesome Mother’s Day Celebration
- Promote Father’s Day
- Execute your follow-up plan and disciple new believers
- Social Ads Strategy & Plan
- Host an awesome Mother’s Day Celebration
- Promote Father’s Day
- Execute your follow-up plan and discile new beleivers
- Attend the Two Page Plan Member’s Lab
In Case You Missed It
Mother’s Day Prep & Follow Up
- Mother’s Day Strategic Playbook
- Mother’s Day Kit – pink
- Mother’s Day Kit – green
- Father’s Day Kit
- Journey — New Believer’s Kit
Two Page Plan Resource
Social Media Guide
Congregation Invite Guide
Father’s Day Google Ads Campaign Launch
Create & promote your Father’s Day Landing page and let the Google Ads team know what you’re doing for Father’s Day so that they can start running ads. Use Father’s Day Kit!
June
- June
Prayer Focus: Pray for fresh wisdom, vision, and direction for this upcoming season!
Goals for this month:
- Fathers Day!
- Add team members to your Church Fuel 2.0 Member’s Site
- Request Google Ads for VBS or Summer events! Grow
Search All Resources
Social Media Guide
Congregation Invite Guide
Father’s Day Kit
Father’s Day is this month. Check out our Father’s Day kit and special resources to help celebrate the fathers in your church.
Breaking 200 Lab
June 20
Plan Your Visit Lab
June 27
July
Monthly Guide
- Ministry Season
“You don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.”
— James Clear
- July
Prayer Focus: Pray for your team to stay encouraged & that your people would stay engaged with their faith and the community.
Monthly Challenge:
Build a System or Refresh an Area
Pick a system that you need to create or refresh. A few areas we recommend in the month of July are Social Media and tuning up how you lead your Team!
Monthly Goals:
- Refresh internal Team Systems
- Your team and staff are the gears that keep your momentum going. Take time in this ministry season to work on the ways you lead them and the systems in which you direct them.
- Work on Visitor Hosting and Follow-up System* so you’re ready for the fall:
- Refresh or get great photos
- Make a plan to get your next set of good photos at upcoming Summer events. This will benefit your website AND your social media greatly! Both platforms are the first look into your church for a visitor.
Church communications channels Matrix
In Case you Missed it
- Summer Resources we highlighted in June
- Events in June
Grow Resources
Book a coaching call! If you are a Grow Church, one-on-one coaching is available to you as part of your membership. We recommend that you evaluate what system you need help in or think about what pain point your church is experiencing. If you haven’t already, you can take the assessment to find that information out!
July Member Events
Team Tune Up Lab
July 11
Back To School Lab
July 18
Social Summer Camp
July 23-25
August
Monthly Guide
- Ministry Season
“If you try to grow your church, you won’t grow your church.”
— Chris Abbott
- August
Prayer Focus: Pray that you would do the next right steps to seeing lives changed as we head into the Fall!
Monthly Challenge:
Fall Kickoff
Host a Sunday kickoff event and use that as a launching pad to invite people back to your Fall series. Plan this for 2-3 weeks after school starts.
Monthly Goals:
- Plan your Back to School Kickoff
- Regroup and recalibrate your Leadership before Fall is officially in full swing!
- Refresh your Connect Cards*
In Case You Missed It
Summer Resources we highlighted in July
Events in July
Grow Resources
Implement the Back to School Plan
August Member Events
Coaching Call: Pixar Principles
Aug 27
Leadership
Leadership Book Review: Upstream
Volunteers
Huddle Talks
Connections
Connect Card Scripts
Giving
Giving Talks
September
- September
Prayer Focus: Pray for fresh wisdom, vision, and direction.
Fall Kickoff
Host a Sunday kickoff event and use that as a launching pad to invite people back to your Fall series. Plan this for 2-3 weeks after school starts.
Monthly Goals:
- Back-to-school kick-off!!
- The planning is DONE! All you need to do is execute
- Work on Visitors System
- Learn More about the Visitors System
- Send team members who haven’t gone through the Visitors System through the course – Visitors System
- Have them review the Blueprint
- Attend Weekly Member Calls to hear some Visitors System insight from Ryan Wakefield
- Host a Welcome Party for the people who started coming at Back to school Kickoff.
- Plan your Fall Harvest Party for October
In Case You Missed It
- Resources we highlighted in August
- Events in August
Grow Tasks
- Attend the Welcome Party
- Work on your Automatic Invite System
- Work through your Two Page Plan with a Coach
September Member Events
Grow Welcome Party
Sept 5
Weekly Member Call: 3 Powerful things to get your Congregation to invite w/ Bobby Williams
Sept 10
Weekly Member Call: Delight Like Disney w/ John-Erik Moseler
Sept 17
Weekly Member Call: Visitors System w/ Ryan Wakefield
Sept 24
Leadership
Leadership Book Breakdown: The Captain Class
Volunteers
Huddle Talks
Connections
Connect Card
