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How do you communicate with your parents who DON'T go to your church?
If you are having some success with outreach in your current youth ministry, you will start to have parents who do not go to your church that you are connecting to.
We break those parents into 2 groups:
1. Those parents who do not attend church-- they seem to be somewhat open and generally positive toward our communication efforts
2. Those parents who attend another church-- they seem to like to "take advantage" of some of our events/programs but don't really want or appreciate follow-up.
We currently send out a Top 10 list of things to know each month to parents of any student who has attended some youth program in the last 3 months.
Just wondering how you communicate without offending or looking like you're "sheep-stealing".
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I do my best to speak with them when they pick up their student. I do my best to tell them about upcoming events, or things they maybe are not hearing from their student. I have found I should not expect students to pass EVERYTHING I said at home, they forget or don't care often. |
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None of the parents of my youth attend our church (or mostly church in general). Unfortunately with most of them there is a language barrier (spanish/english), but I always make a point to speak to them when I do have a chance to see them (which isn't a lot). I also send home calendars, letters and go talk to parents if we go on overnight trips. |
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We send home a letter with each kid that comes to the first youth group of the month. We have a website created for parents, and I send out a weekly email to all of the parents that I have email addresses for. |
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I say you should over-communicate anyway, and those who don't want it should be able to have the ability to easily remove themselves from your list. |
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I send a bi-monthly update on stuff going on in our youth ministry and that goes to all parents-churched or not. I also make it a point to try to visit the kids whose parents don't attend our church. I also make sure they know they are always welcome at our parent meetings and to come be anytime. |
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I treat them just like any other parent, not really making a distinction between our church and no church/other church. I figure if their teen has been involved (to whatever degree) with our program they (the parents) have a right (and should expect) some communication from me. Thus they receive any pertinent info and when appropriate any general info (via snail mail). We also have our info posted to a blog that they may access if they desire (this is a bit less intrusive since they make the choice to go there vs. me sending something to their home). We also do a mail list purge at the end of the year and usually weed out inactive addresses at that time. |
