“Sticky Church” is a the new paradigm for what has been called “assimilation," retention," or “closing the back door.”  
 
A Sticky Church is a church that no one wants to leave!
 
StickyChurch.com is a community that is here to help your church be more effective in building authentic relationships with your visitors and attendees. It is our goal to help you deepen those important connections so people will STICK to your church and to the Lord.
 
Here you will find resources on:

Sticky Church Conference October 6 & 7, 2008
Sticky Church (the book) by Larry Osborne Zondervan - coming October 2008

As well as books, resources+ideas, stories, links, forums, blogs and much, much more. Come be part of the Sticky Church community!

Sticky churches are…

• Healthy
• Feel small, even when they’re big
• Growing
• Care about individual people
• Don’t let anyone fall through the cracks
• Have easy ways for people to connect
• Relational
• True communities
• Provide a feeling of significance
• Connection - to other people, to God!
• Evangelistic
• Spiritual
• Biblical
• Have small back doors
• Are comfortable and inviting
• Apply common sense
• Multiply naturally

 Sticky Church and StickyChurch.com are brought to you by Coast2Coast Training Network, a ministry of North Coast Church in Vista, CA. But this is YOUR community.  Please add your comments, suggest resources, tell your stories, share your ideas.  We want to hear about your STICKY CHURCH too!

Here are a few:

• North Coast Church
• Life Church
• Good Shepherd Community Church
• Mosaic
• Segadores de Vida
• The Journey Church