Twenty Five Ways to Discover Prospects 

1. List unchurched families discovered from Vacation Bible School records.
2. Use telephone directory to survey (phone inquiries) an entire telephone exchange.
3. Survey (census) your community.  Update former community surveys.
4. Conduct a recreation event and invite the community. Register all participants. Make a list and prospect assignments of everyone not a member of your church.
5. Ask church members to identify colleagues who are prospective members.
6. Obtain cooperation of associational office on any prospects.
7. Request church members to identify neighbors who are unchurched.
8. Identify unenrolled parents of children enrolled in Sunday School.
9. Find unchurched parents from church day care center enrollments.
10. Identify unchurched parents of children enrolled in church kindergartens or church schools.
11. Request mail response from radio or television audience.
12. Obtain names from Dial-A-Devotional Service.
13. Use TIP (Turn In a Prospect) cards in pew racks.
14. Use “I know a Prospect” cards throughout the church. For example conduct an “I Know a Prospect” Sunday and distribute and collect cards through the Sunday School.
15. Follow up on information received from Sunday School visitors.
16. Identify and follow up unchurched person attending Bible Study Fellowships.
17. Check church roll against Sunday School roll for Bible study prospects.
18. Identify unchurched persons in one’s vocation, discipline, and/or professional club.
19. Locate persons in correctional institutions desiring Bible study; provide classes in the prison.
20. Check birth announcements in the newspaper, and send congratulatory letters to parents of newborns.
21. Follow up on prospects discovered by bus/transportation ministry.
22. Check all family members of babies enrolled in Preschool Departments and cradle Roll. Add any unchurched to the prospect file.
23. Provide guest book in the church lobby to identify visitors to weddings, funerals, and other meetings at the church.
24. Use special registration forms for special events held at your church.
25. Register attendance of every person who attends revival services or special musical events at your church.