3 Things to Do After Easter (to keep the momentum)

You’re energized and exhausted at the same time.

I get it.

So while you’re recovering from all that God did during Easter weekend, I want to help you stay intentional and strategic so that you can join God in the momentum He’s building in your church.

3 Things to Do After Easter

1. Follow up with first-time guests.

As long as you have a couple of Connections Systems, this will be seamless.

• Gather all of your physical connection cards.
• Check your digital connection card forms.
• And don’t forget to check your kids’ check-in software for new family accounts.

Pray for them. Share the list of names with your leadership team and invite them to pray for them.

Send them a text. Send them an email. And send them a handwritten card.

Space out when you send each and make it personable.

You want to make sure that your follow-up process does a few things:

1. Let them know you’re so grateful they joined you for Easter
2. Let them know you’re praying for them
3. Invite them to share any specific prayer requests with you
4. Invite them to ask any questions they have
5. Invite them back to church

2. Follow up with those who surrendered to Jesus.

My hope and prayer is that you were able to see people surrender to Jesus and be baptized. If God moved in this way, be sure to follow up with everyone who decided to follow Jesus.

They are excited and need to be led to “what’s next.” This is an amazing opportunity in their lives when they’re going to be open to what this new life with Jesus looks like. Let’s not waste any time. Be sure to spur them on to love and good works.

This could look like a combination of things:

• Handwritten card from the church’s leadership team
• Invitation to take a next step in your Next Steps Pathway
• Gift them a Bible
• Teach them spiritual disciplines
  • Record a special video with practical rhythms they can adopt
  • Write an article that captures the same teachings

They’re open. And they’re probably desperate for guidance.

I know I was when I surrendered to Jesus.

Make sure you meet them there.

3. Get your team together to Celebrate, Collaborate, and Curate.

Often, we get past Easter and we’re on to the next thing we need to plan for. But don’t rush past it.

Get your team together – yes, a meeting… Provide plenty of coffee and some snacks.

Set aside a couple hours to do these three things together:

• Celebrate all that God did throughout Easter weekend. Give space for everyone to share how they saw God move. Encourage team members in specific ways. Send text messages to ministry team members not in the meeting, encouraging them and thanking them for their time and dedication. Tell the story of what each of you witnessed God do. In other people’s lives. And in your own.
  
  
• Collaborate and open the floor to what went well, how you can celebrate what God did during next Sunday’s service, and discuss what needs to be changed next year (or moving forward). Maybe your church was busting at the seams and you’re continuing to plan to add another service by the fall. Or maybe you realized that your first impressions team needs more people. Whatever bumps in the road you and your team noticed, it’s important to collaboratively work through them and prayerfully find solutions.
  
  
• Curate creative ideas for next year’s Easter services. Because if you’re anything like me, you’ve got more ideas than you could put into motion this year. So make a list of creative, fun, and compelling ideas for next year’s services so that when you begin planning Easter 2026 Services, you’re starting from a wealth of ideas.

And while you’re together, bring the list of names of first-time guests and those who surrendered to Jesus with you and pray for them by name together.

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