Care for Your Church, the free book by Jon-Michael Sherman

● Free book · 103 pages

Care for Your Church.

By Jon-Michael Sherman

Answer every need fast, notice who’s drifting, and make sure no one leaves unknown. For care, connections, groups and executive pastors, and the teams who care with them.

  • Capture every need in one place, triage it, and follow up within 48 hours
  • The care signals to watch, and the three-week window
  • Groups, care teams and standards, so care doesn’t depend on one pastor

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The care circle

People don’t leave because it wasn’t excellent.

They leave because they feel lonely, like no one cares, with no one to reach out to. Somewhere along the way they stopped feeling known, and nobody noticed.

Strong care closes the back door. This book builds it in four rings: answer fast, notice early, get everyone into friendship, and build the team underneath.

Your people don’t need less care. They need more people caring.

  1. 1RespondAnswer every need fast. Speed is how care feels.
  2. 2NoticeSee people leaning out before they’re gone.
  3. 3KnownFour to seven friends in a group who care for them.
  4. 4TeamThe care team and system underneath all three.

Inside the book

Respond. Notice. Known. Team.

Four parts, one ring at a time. Every chapter ends with one thing to do this week, and every part ends with a page on doing it in Engage.

Part 1Respond: answer every raised hand

  1. 1Speed Is How Care Feels
  2. 2Every Door Into Care
  3. 3Triage: Today, Two Days, Two Weeks
  4. 4A Name and a Voice
  5. 5What to Say on the Care Call
  6. 6The Visit
  7. 7You Are Not the Church’s Counselor
  8. 8Line Up Your Care Partners Before You Need Them
  9. 9Close the Loop

Part 2Notice: know the condition of your flock

  1. 10People Lean Out Quietly
  2. 11Name Your Care Signals
  3. 12The Three-Week Window
  4. 13The Faithful Volunteer Who Starts Saying No
  5. 14When Giving Goes Quiet
  6. 15Don’t Assume Why
  7. 16Good News Is a Signal Too
  8. 17The Weekly Signal Review

Part 3Known: friendship is the care that lasts

  1. 18Preaching Brings Them, Friendship Keeps Them
  2. 19Four to Seven Friends
  3. 20Groups Are Your Widest Care Net
  4. 21Lonely in a Crowd
  5. 22Who Isn’t in a Group?
  6. 23Group Leaders Are First Responders
  7. 24When Someone Leaves a Group
  8. 25Everyone Known by Someone

Part 4Team: the care engine underneath

  1. 26Stop Being Everyone’s Pastor
  2. 27One Care Owner
  3. 28Three Layers of Care
  4. 29Pick and Train Your Carers
  5. 30Write Your Care Standards
  6. 31Where Care History Lives
  7. 32Who Covers When You’re Out
  8. 33The Twenty-Minute Care Huddle
  9. 34Is Care Working?
  10. 35Care for the Carers

Prefer to watch?

See the care system in the free course.

Church Engagement is ten short video lessons in Jon-Michael’s own words: knowing the condition of your flock, following through until yes or no, team delegation, and getting every new person to four to seven friends in 90 days.

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