Taste and See events are where the public is invited to attend some fun event with some of your best incubators/evangelists.

It is best if the church think for themselves and lead their team through some “brainstorming” sessions that force them back to their own cultural/ mission field context.

I can list some of them, but it’s more helpful to have people think through their own context.  For example, if I we were planting a church in Port Aransas, Texas where I live, the local culture would dictate what events everyone already did.  One would revolve around fishing, maybe two boats, with four church members inviting 4 guys who didn’t have a church home, and that night having the wives/ sweethearts join them for a catch of the day dinner.

Have some courses to go through with invitees.  A DVD series, for example, Financial Peace University, is a great way to have unconnected people attend on the elbow of someone in the group.

Arrange some small golf outings, usually 2-foursums, in which members invite an outside person to play with you.

Progressive Dinners, including some of the invitees acting as host for a particular portion of the meal.

All-Church events, would include “Bring – A – Friend” Sundays, (these things, though corny, are like the Fund-raising Red Thermometer---they work)

Large Group events, usually conducted away from the church: Outdoor concerts in a park, Valentine’s Dinner, Muscle Car Show with 50’s Music Theme

Small Groups

Dinners for 8

Progressive Dinners

Fishing

Financial Peace University Study