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List unchurched
families from Vacation
Bible
School
record.
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Conduct an inside
census.
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Locate newcomers
by calling all new listings in the phone directory.
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Update a former
community survey.
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Identify homes
where children are playing in the yards on Sunday morning.
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Ask youth to
survey blocks in which they live.
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Compare church
recreation participants to Sunday School rolls.
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Subscribe to
newcomer service for information on prospects.
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Locate homebound
by publishing lists and asking for update.
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Use telephone
directory to survey and entire telephone exchange.
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Subscribe to local
Legal News for information on new homeowners.
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Canvass university
dormitories for unchurched.
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Check with BSU
leaders for unenlisted students.
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Survey apartments
adjacent to campus for student prospects.
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Check college
admission office for church preferences of students.
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Confer with
student housing office for names of students.
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Check with workers
at day care centers near colleges.
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Check with workers
provid8ing nurseries near colleges.
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Confer with
workers at college infirmaries.
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Confer with
workers at kindergartens near colleges.
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Request
information on prospects of mobile home park managers.
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Ask neighborhood
ice cream route man where children live.
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Request religious
affiliation of students from college registrars.
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Call college
placement offices for names of newly employed.
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Enlist help of
diaper service route man for prospect information.
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Check with
receptionists in doctor's offices.
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Check with
receptionists in dentists' offices.
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Confer with
instructors in trade schools.
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Enlist the help of
school guidance counselors.
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Contact
administration of local trade schools for information.
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Identify shift
workers through church survey.
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Ask shift workers
to identify colleagues who are prospects.
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Gather information
on those who work in hospitals.
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Survey membership
for those who are good service workers.
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Survey membership
for those who are hotel and motel employees.
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List church
members who work on Sundays.
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Ask Sunday School
workers to provide the names of colleagues with whom they work.
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Contact
international clubs for information on foreign students.
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Talk to labor
unions for information on migrant workers.
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Confer with
military base chaplains for unchurched families.
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Inquire of
seaman's service for information on internationals.
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Secure cooperation
of associational office on any prospects.
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Use door-to-door
surveys to locate unchurched people.
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Request business
people to identify associates who are unchurched.
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Request church
members identify neighbors who are unchurched.
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Identify
unenrolled parents of children enrolled in Sunday School.
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Find unchurched
parents from day care center enrollments.
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Identify
unchurched parents of children enrolled in church day schools.
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Identify
unchurched parents of children enrolled in church kindergartens.
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Request mail
response from radio audience.
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Secure names from
Dial-a-Devotional service.
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Survey by phone
the newcomers listed by utilities turn-ons.
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Contact moving
companies for newcomers.
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Use tip prospect
cards in pew racks.
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Use "I Know A
Prospect" cards throughout the church.
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Follow up on
information received from Sunday School visitors.
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Follow up on
information received from church worship service visitors.
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Check with
military base
chaplain for those with special Bible study needs.
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Request
information on newcomers from real estate agents.
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Report the
unchurched attending Bible Study Fellowship near military bases.
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Use military base
phone directories to take telephone surveys.
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Locate unchurched
and unsaved deaf people by checking with community institutions.
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Locate unsaved and
unchurched blind persons by checking with community institutions.
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Check with public
health service for names of handicapped persons.
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Locate mentally
retarded though the Mental Retardation Association.
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Secure information
on the families of mentally retarded.
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Check church roll
against Sunday School roll.
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Identify
unchurched persons in one's vocation, discipline, or professional
club.
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Request union
members to identify unchurched work associates.
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Talk to nursing
home personnel for information on patients.
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Request personnel
at retirement centers for prospect information.
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Locate persons in
correctional institutions who need Christ.
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Enlist help of
institutional doctors to identify prospects.
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Enlist help of
institutional chaplains to identify prospects.
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Secure assistance
of relatives of institutionalized persons.
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Enlist help of
institutional managers in finding person to whom the church can
minister.
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Enlist help of
employees at institutions for providing prospect information.
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Glean local
newspapers for information on newlyweds.
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Check hospital
reports in newspapers for names of new babies.
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Enclose a
"return card" in graduate's congratulations.
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Send
congratulations to those who have been reported achieving any public
recognition. Request
information on an enclosed return card.
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Secure cooperation
of businesses to identify recent high school graduates.
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Identify recent
graduates with bank's list of new accounts.
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Request apartment
managers' assistance in locating recent graduates.
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Ask guidance
counselors for names of recent graduates.
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Follow up on
prospects located through bus ministry.
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Ask bus riders to
identify other unchurched children and families.
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Follow up on
families reached through bus outreach.
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Contact welfare
agencies to identify sub-culture groups.
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Secure cooperation
of social workers to identify sub-culture groups.
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Check all family
members of babies enrolled in Preschool Department.
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Use
Cross-reference directories to survey apartment complexes.
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Provide
Outreach-Ministry forms for ongoing prospect reporting.
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Provide guest book
in church lobby to identify visitors to weddings, funerals and other
meetings at church.
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Use special
registration forms at special events such a musicals, folk groups, and
dramas.
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Register
attendance of everyone who attends revival or special services.
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Check newspaper
for families of deceased - offer ministry.
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Provide social
events for "partners without partners."
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Secure information
from administrators of senior adult centers.
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Conduct an age
group hunt of a specific area, and age.
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Request
baby-sitters to report information on unchurched families.
