See what's working
Seeing what's working answers the question a headcount cannot: of the people we reached, how many are still here?
Attendance on any given Sunday tells you almost nothing on its own. What matters is how many first-time guests came back, whether somebody reached them first, and which way in — the card, the Visit Page, a knock on the door — actually produced people who stay.
In this section
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Reports | Whether first-time guests come back, whether anyone reached them, where they came from, and, on your plan, outreach, drifting, attendance, decisions and giving |
Where to start
Select Reports in the main navigation. If your church is new, expect thin data for the first few weeks — most of these numbers need several Sundays of attendance before they mean anything.
Start with whether first-time guests come back rather than with attendance. A church whose attendance is flat but whose guests keep coming back is in better shape than the reverse.
:::note Recent periods always look worse Somebody who visited last Sunday has not had time to come back. Reports tells you how many of a period's guests are too recent to tell — Reports explains how to read it. :::
How it connects
Everything here is downstream of data your team enters during the week. If a number looks wrong, the fix is almost always upstream: attendance not being recorded, or guests not being captured in the Guests hub.