Starting a church is hard. Starting a church without an assimilation process is stupid.

Motion Church’s assimilation process looks great on paper – but we are finding out that it is much more difficult to put into practice.

The goal of the assimilation process at Motion Church is to move people to take the important, life-changing step of church membership – to become an owner of Motion Church.

The first step in the AP is to break the process down. We don’t think about the AP as “first-time guest to sold-out member” but we look at it in 3 steps:

1. First-time guest to second-time guest
2. Second-time guest to regular attender
3. Regular attenders to sold-out member

This allows us to identify the commitment level of frequent visitors and we have a process for each step in order to get people plugged into Motion Church.