Assimilation Design

Turn guests into fully engaged members.

Visitors need more than a friendly greeting—they need a clear next step toward deeper engagement. When people know where to go next, they stay, grow, and thrive.

Your Next Step

Is your church turning guests into disciples?

Assimilation Design

From decades of helping churches create meaningful connections, we’ve learned that a well-designed church visitor experience is the key to long-term engagement. We help churches craft seamless pathways that move people from first-time visitors to fully engaged disciples—ensuring every step of their journey is clear, intentional, and inviting.

Where Many Churches Get Stuck

Many churches struggle to bridge the gap between visitors walking in the door and fully engaging in the life of the church. Without a clearly defined pathway, people are left unsure of their next steps—leading to low visitor retention, weak assimilation, and disengagement. Even when onboarding classes exist, they often feel disconnected from the larger experience, making it difficult for people to move from attendance to activation. Is your church offering a clear, compelling journey that makes it easy for people to connect, grow, and get involved? If not, it’s time to create a streamlined process that welcomes, equips, and integrates people into the heart of your church.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to developing a discipleship pathway. Our process aims to understand who you are in order to uniquely optimize your onboarding, assimilation, and activation processes for who you're called to reach.

How We Help You

We help churches design and implement a next steps experience that naturally moves people from guests to committed members. Our strategic pathway development empowers churches to provide tangible steps for spiritual growth—motivating your visitors to:

  • Keep coming back to church.

  • Find community at church.

  • Get engaged in the life of the church.

  • Advocacy

Designing Your Pathway to Church Engagement

Key Focuses

  • Onboarding Process & Assimilation Design

    • We create a visitor-friendly assimilation process that guides new visitors through intentional next steps and increases church visitor retention.

    • We work with you to optimize church visitor follow-up strategies.

  • Onboarding Class & Curriculum Development

    • We collaborate with your team to build a compelling new members class that introduces your church’s mission, vision, values, and pathway.

    • We develop an engaging curriculum and resources that help new members integrate into the life of the church.

  • Streamlining Activation Across the Entire Journey

    • We define a clear process for moving people from visitors to active members

    • We develop an ongoing church engagement strategy that connects people to groups, serving, and living generously.

    • We establish metrics and touchpoints to track engagement and guide improvement.

  • Helping People Get Connected & Stay Engaged


    • We identify barriers to deeper church involvement.

    • We build a system that makes it easy for people to take their next step.

    • We help you implement best practices for guiding people into ongoing discipleship and community.

Want to learn more?

Your Next Step

Results

  • / 01
    +63%
    New Growth Under Age 40

    One year after rollout, attendance had increased 17%, with over 63% growth among those under 40.

    -Hill Country Bible Church

  • / 02
    2x
    Growth in Investment, Volunteering, and Attendance

    Volunteering almost doubled while giving saw exponential increase.


    - This Rock Baptist Church

  • / 03
    +30%
    Growth in Attendance

    Within the first year of rollout, attendance growth in Traditional and Contemporary Services grew dramatically.

    - Trinity on 5th

  • / 04
    +40%
    Growth in Giving

    The velocity in developing new relationships skyrocketed and subsequent giving for missional efforts increased by over 50%.

    - Unknown Nations

  • / 05
    +28%
    Growth in Attendance

    Within 9 months of rollout, attendance across all services was up by 28%, and giving and volunteering have also increased significantly.

    - Coppell Bible Church

It all starts with a
360° Perspective

Learn about our powerful two week process for gaining a complete perspective of where you stand.

Get your leadership team aligned around the right changes to create exponential progress.

We'd love to connect and learn more about how we can partner with you to develop a next steps process that fosters connection, discipleship, and sustainable church growth.