Ideas for Locating Prospects

There are many ways to find Sunday School prospects. You are only limited by your imagination. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Ideas For Locating Sunday School Prospects

There are many ways to find Sunday School prospects. You are only limited by your imagination. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

• Look at your church roles to see who is not enrolled in Sunday School.
• Contact newcomers in your community.
• List unchurched children and families from your VBS records.
• Conduct a community survey either door to door or by phone.
• Identify homes where children are playing in the yards on Sunday morning.
• Compare church recreation participants to Sunday School rolls.
• Subscribe to local newspapers for information on new parents.
• Canvas university dormitories for unchurched students.
• Request information on prospects from mobile home park managers.
• List church members who work on Sunday.
• Secure cooperation of your associational office on any prospects they might have located.
• Request business people to identify associates who are unchurched.
• Request church members to identify neighbors who are unchurched.
• Request church members to identify family members who are unchurched.
• Identify unenrolled parents of children enrolled in Sunday School.
• Identify unchurched parents of children enrolled in church day schools and kindergartens.
• Contact moving companies for newcomers
• Use “I Know a Prospect” cards in the pew racks and throughout the church.
• Follow up on information received from Sunday School visitors.
• Follow up on information received from church worship visitors.
• Request information on newcomers from real estate agents.
• Report the unchurched attending Outreach Bible Studies.
• Locate the deaf and blind by checking with community institutions.
• Check with public health service for names of handicapped persons.
• Identify unchurched persons in one’s professional club.
• Talk to nursing home personnel for information on patients.
• Request personnel at retirement center for prospect information.
• Locate persons in correctional institutions desiring Bible study.
• Glean local newspaper for information on newlyweds.
• Check the hospital reports in newspapers for names of new babies.
• Send congratulations to those who have been reported achieving any public recognition.
• Request information on enclosed return card.
• Request apartment managers’ assistance in locating young adults and children.
• Follow up on prospects located by bus ministry.
• Check family members of babies enrolled in First Contact.
• Use special registration forms for special events such as musical groups, choir programs, etc.
• Register attendance of every person who attends revival.
• Check newspaper for families of deceased – offer ministry.
• Conduct a parents night out for the community.
• Conduct an age group hunt of a specific area and specific age.

If you have any questions about “Ideas for Finding Sunday School Prospects,” please contact Kiely Young, kyoung@mbcb.org