Recent research revealed that many people outside the church are open to discussing spiritual issues more than we expect.
What this means is that if we get more creative with our services, we might attract a lot more people.
If your church has stuck with a particular service order for several years, it is time to change it. Get creative and infuse new ideas into your service to reduce predictability and boredom. It will also help you to reach out to lost souls a lot more. We have put together some interesting church service ideas to improve your service experiences in the coming year.
Church Service Ideas for Creative Churches
Clinging to the foundation of what we believe in as a church is great. However, there are some sacred traditions that we must break or adjust to make church services more interesting. Taking this step is very important for proper congregation management and better worship experiences. Below are a few church service ideas and elements that you can add to your services:
Outreach Sunday
Let’s face it, some folks love God but just cannot attend a regular service in a church. An “Outreach Sunday” service could help you reach such individuals by taking the service to them. In this case, you’d still use your regular service time, just that the location will be different.
The best way to determine the venue is to look out for areas of need in your locality. It may be a charity or some sort of community service. Build your outreach service upon this foundation, print t-shirts, and move some of your equipment to such locations. Taking this step is one of the ways to show that you practice what you preach. You can have one outreach service per year but make sure you collect contact details that you can add to your church database.
Student Services
One way to inspire the young people in your church and shake things up is to organize student services. Have a special service where you allow the students in your congregation to lead. Of course, you must have an existing student fellowship to organize such a service.
Ask the youth pastor to work with the students to come up with special ideas for this special service. The music team of the student fellowship can handle the music for the service. Doing this shows that your church is interested in the development of the next generation.
Music Services
Every church has music during its services but a music service is different. In such a service, music is the main theme while everything else moves to the background. Music is one of the most powerful instruments for attracting people to church.
Work with your Minister of Music and the Church Music Director to organize this service. Your music team can come up with a special theme for the service. They should choose five to six songs in line with the theme and minister them during the service. Invite some popular gospel musicians in your locality to grace the occasion. You can have other forms of art during such services to spice things up.
Themed Worship Backgrounds
Creating and using themed worship backgrounds add some spice to your worship services. Placing song lyrics, scripture, and key sermon points on such backgrounds make services a lot more interactive.
You can come up with unique designs if you have a strong graphics team. If your church media team isn’t proficient with designs, you can download backgrounds online and add your text. You don’t have to come up with a complex design, less is always more. The mix of text and these backgrounds improve church communication during services.
Testimonies
It is always great to hear from congregants during services. One way to do this is to create time for testimonies. Congregants can come up to share what God has done in their lives in recent times. Testimonies help us to acknowledge God’s faithfulness and also encourage other congregants that God can help them as well.
Ensure that you create a structure for your testimonies. You can infuse a few minutes for this every week or have a special “Testimony” service once a month. Announce such services ahead of time so that congregants with testimonies can indicate interest ahead.
Montages
Montages are short films that carry important messages. You can speak to your church media team to create montages for different parts of your services. Montages can help in passing across special announcements or introducing different parts of your service. You can also use these videos as service openers to make your services more interesting.
Prayer Services
Prayer services help congregants that hardly pray on their own spend time in corporate prayers. You can infuse some worship into such services, however, the music shouldn’t be performance-based. It should be targeted at leading people into God’s presence to pray more effectively. Set some time aside for short exhortations to encourage people to pray with more direction.
Conclusion
There are so many service ideas but we have shared seven of them in this post. What other service ideas do you know? Please, share them with us in the comments section. Kindly check out ChurchPad to find out more ways to improve your worship experience and church communication.