This toolkit of intentional and compassionate strategies takes an encouraging, incremental approach to help even small groups get started quickly. Study the separate chapters on: imaginative marketing; the ministry of greeting, crafting welcoming materials, tracking and involving newcomers and structuring groups for growth. Then adapt an additional 34 pages of template forms, brochures, and procedures to your needs while employing Weeks' point-by-point recommendations to: make sure your signs and property invite, not confuse; create powerful, welcoming ads and print communication, train and prepare greeters; and develop programs to incorporate and track newcomers during their first critical months.

Andrew Weeks has been a business executive and management/systems consultant in the U.S. and Canada. When returning to organized religion in the late 1980s, he became more sensitized to the needs of newcomers and aware of how few chueches were providing an organized response to those needs. He has developed a series of workshops and conferences in Canada and the U.S. for local and regional groups of churches, dioceses, and synods, and state and provincial associations.