Customer Reviews

Getting Students to Show Up: Practical Ideas for Any Outreach Event---from 10 to 10,000

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This book ultimately affirms that size matters. It draws upon the tired strategies of influence (manipulation!) to get people to "go to church". I'd recommend a book more in tune with a theology of incarnation where real presence matters more than tactics.

If you are looking for a list of outreach ideas, then this book will disappoint you. However if you have little or no experience at planning an outreach event then this book is a great starting resource. The book has practical advice about how to think about outreach events, but is lacking in providing preplanned outreach events. In addition, there is information that most youth leaders will never need to think about, like how to book a band or a speaker.

I am a new youth minister and I found the book to be a good starting point, but I was looking for more outreach ideas. Getting students to show up did illuminate some areas that I had neglected in my planning so it is a good resource, but it is not a list of outreach ideas.

The end of the book does contain some outreach ideas and he points you to a free website (www.thesourceforym.com) which he is involved with and which does contain a list of outreach ideas.