From:
FJPearce@aol.com [mailto:FJPearce@aol.com]
Sent: Thu 8/10/2006 12:45 AM
To: rareese@maranatha.net; Chap Gleason
Subject: Re: August 31 Local Committee Meeting - Can You Be There
Ron,
Thanks for your note of encouragement. It is a good work and we have a GREAT
team. It's a pleasure to be a part of it.
Yes, I will plan on being there on the 31st of August. I will definitely be done
with the Montgomery County pilot project by then. I have used the
yellowpages.com website as my source of information and have created database
records from the website. I've copied and pasted the results of the searches by
denomination within the zip codes contained within Montgomery County into a Word
document. I then ran a Visual Basic macro to reformat the listings into a comma
delimited file that I then imported into the Excel spreadsheet from 1997. I
then sorted the data by street address to find the duplicates. The next step I
need to do yet is to determine how many new entries have appeared since the 1997
database was created. The data in these listings only include the church name,
street address, city, state, zip code, denomination and phone number. To get
more detailed information will require doing a Google search for each church to
get their website and perhaps doctrinal statements to zero in on the churches
most likely to accept our invitation. This will be more fruitful than the
shotgun approach of sending invitations to all the churches on AIG's "most
likely to support" list of denominations. This will allow the county
coordinators to focus their callers energies on the best prospects.
That's it in a nutshell (sort of). I will create a PowerPoint presentation and
send it to you and Chap for feedback before our August meeting so that I can
refine it before presenting it.
Chap, I don't have a list of pastors or churches that came to CLM for the last
seminar. Do you have that list? Did we have any way of tracking the people and
their church that came last time as well? Those churches that came last time
should also be high priority targets.
I'll keep you posted on my progress.
In Christ,
Fred