bringing attendance to a Christian club on campus?

[Jaltus-bot]

We aren't getting a lot of people from last semester who are able to attend the Christian club meetings at my college. Not a lot of new people are coming. We still haven't been able to hold elections to replace the three officers that we lost last semester through being them too busy with work and stuff or transferring as happened with our president.

What can we do to draw people to the club?

What would make you want to consider attending attending a Christian club meeting at school if you weren't sure about it?

[Kaligraphic]

Free pizza. It's like a flame to moths, only it draws students instead. And it's... not... on fire... usually...

[Syreth]

Here's an idea that one of my friends at Bible College gave me. He was telling us about how every month at his old college there was an appreciation week for everything you could think of (even a smoking appreciation week!) , so what he did was got together with his friends and asked if they could do a Christianity appreciation week. They surprisingly said yes, just as long as it was well-planned. They did it and it was both a success and a testimony to the whole school. Perhaps it might be a good thing to look into, since it might show other Christians that there's an active Christian organization at the school.

[Warrior4Christ]

At our campus we have a "Jesus Week" (put on by the Christian group I'm in).

Also, people are more likely to be eager to participate if they feel they have greater 'ownership' of the group. So if you could get people more involved in the planning/organising/leading/whatever roles, then they would feel like they belong to the group (if that makes sense).

[Puritan]

Free pizza. It's like a flame to moths, only it draws students instead. And it's... not... on fire... usually...

That works, I've known freshmen to survive for large amounts of time first semester by simply going to a bunch of meetings with free pizza. If you serve it, they will come.

On a more serious note (although pizza will work) I think that the best way to expand a Christain group is word of mouth. Invite people, talk to the pastor or staff at the church you go to and ask them to put something in the bulletin, that type of thing. While you could put on a "Christianity Week" or whatnot, I find that the best way to get people to attend something like this is to just tell people you know and invite them. Your club may be too small to put on a big weeklong event, and my experience is that most people are so used to big meetings and events that they simply ignore them.

[Debitt]

Free pizza. It's like a flame to moths, only it draws students instead. And it's... not... on fire... usually...

That worked really well for one of the Christian groups at my school - ^^ while sometimes I question the sincerity of the people coming, I think it gets the people coming and hopefully their attendance will spark interest.

[mitsuki lover]

You should also be specific about what you do at your club that way it might get more people who are interested.

[mechana2015]

Do a lot of name recognition stuff too, like flyers and posters and whatnot.
I personally believe that low attendance to campus clubs is often due to students not being aware of whats avaliable to them on campus. Making your activity/club well known will help dramatically with attendance.

[uc pseudonym]

I think that, as others have said, name recognition is more important than anything. Someone put up a ton of posters around my campus for some event Sunday evening (without explaining anything about it), and I'm at least going to ask about it.

But that aside, it is important for people to know what you actually do at the club. Most of them probably have numerous organizations they could join and a lot of stresses on their time between schoolwork and extracirricular activities. I would want to know my time would be well spent. Actually, I'd probably just come and see, but most people aren't very motivated.

[TallHobbit86]

messaging people who go to your college and are on http://www.facebook.com and who have the Bible among their favorite books or something like that worked well for a Christian group at my university to get name recognition and spread details about their Christian group events

[Jaltus-bot]

Thanks so much for your help everyone.

[PigtailsJazz]

Pray.

[Icarus]

The reason I started going to the Wesley was a free lunch.