Every person needs security. Every person needs to belong. Every person needs to believe that he or she has influence. Everybody needs self-esteem. When a church lives up to the potential God has given it, no organization does these things better.
Herb Miller

What do you do if you discover your Sunday school is actually repelling instead of attracting visitors? Don Michael McDonald, teacher of an adult class in the Community Bible Church of San Bernardino, California, had a comfortable, informative class just like thousands of others, but that's the question he had to face. Knowing people join niches and not just churches, he was determined to find out what was wrong and how to make his niche attractive to newcomers.As a result of what McDonald learned and put into practice, the class began to grow about 10 percent each month, and by the end of a year it had reached an average attendance of sixty-five. Perhaps the best indicator the new strategy was working was that 80 percent of class ...

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