FlipMyChurch.com has found that many congregations are pretty good at "reaching out to others," at least when it comes to responding in times of crisis and need. Part of our flipping challenge, though, is that we've come to reach out to others on our own behalf, rather than on Jesus', and as such the world has lost the opportunity for Jesus' tangible touch . . . or maybe it's that we've missed a lot of opportunities to serve as the tangible touch of Jesus. Complicating this fact is the factor that many of us now pursue reaching out to others as a way to meet our expenses and attendance expectations. But reaching others is the way we tangibly touch people on Jesus' behalf while introducing them to the One on whose behalf we exist! Is your congregation more like the one that anonymously serves in local good work (engaging service but not necessarily participating in mission), or more like the congregation that gave each of its members $10 to pass on to someone in need, noting only that it was a gift from their church, on Jesus' behalf (combining mission and evangelism)? Transformational congregations know that mission cannot exist apart from evangelism. And FlipMyChurch.com realizes that we're a lot better at mission than evangelism. In 2009, FlipMyChurch.com launched HitchhikersGuidetoEvangelism.com, a ministry developed to equip, empower, and encourage the entirety of your congregation to reach others in ways that are relational and non-offensive. HitchhikersGuidetoEvangelism.com offers everything your leaders and evangelism and outreach committees need to help themselves and others move from "pretty good" to excellence in reaching others: from basic, introductory how-to training videos to monthly video workshops to weekday motivationals to resource blogs and more for your leaders and evangelism and outreach committees! Go to HitchhikersGuidetoEvangelism.com for more information or to subscribe!