Here comes the church.
Homecoming Sunday isn't one church's event. It's a national day. Hundreds of churches, one weekend, one message: come home.
The 2nd Sunday of September. When churches move as one, the invitation stops being a flyer and starts being a moment the whole country can feel.
The family that drifted. The friend who left. The neighbor who's never come. One Sunday built entirely around the words we saved you a seat.
Picture your lobby loud again. Members bringing friends. Familiar faces walking back through the doors. That kind of Sunday.
Your church doesn't have to build a movement. It just has to join one, and be ready when they walk in.
You've done the big Sunday that didn't work.
Announced two weeks out. Posted the graphic. Prayed. And Sunday looked like every other Sunday. It wasn't your people. It was the plan. Big Sundays fail for three reasons:
Your church shouldn't have to guess its way through the most important Sunday of the year.
I've carried the clipboard you're holding.
I'm Sheldon Andrus. I've led big Sundays at churches of 60 and churches of 15,000, including on the executive team of one of the fastest-growing churches in America. This playbook is the exact system I run with consulting and coaching clients, written down so any team can follow it.
Three steps to a full room.
Get the playbook
Instant access to the plan, every script, and every template. Read it in an hour.
Run the six weeks
Pick your Sunday, put the one-page plan on the wall, and work the checklist as a team.
Fill the room, and keep them
30% more people on the day, and a follow-up system that turns them into your congregation.
A complete campaign, ready to run.
Not a PDF of theory. A working kit. The plan on the wall, the card in every hand, the mailer in every mailbox.
Everything is already made. Add your church's name.
The Playbook + Workbook · the full six-week system
Stage & video scripts · word for word
Invite card & postcard · print-ready
The invite email sequence · ready to send
Plan-Your-Visit page · working prototype
Follow-up texts, emails & call script · the first 48 hours
Web & social copy bank · paste and go
Ad specs & budget guide · by church size
Two ways this fall can go.
Without a plan
Another announcement, another graphic, another Sunday that looks like last Sunday, and a team that quietly stops believing big days work here.
With the playbook
A room a third fuller than you've seen all year. Guests welcomed by name. Baptisms on the calendar. And a team that knows exactly how it happened, because they can do it again.
This is what six weeks of runway looks like on a Sunday morning. Build the runway. Fill the room. Keep the people.
The Homecoming Sunday Playbook
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Before you ask.
Will this work for a church our size?
It's been run in rooms of 60 and rooms of thousands. The goal is proportional (your baseline +30%), and the budget guide covers under-200, 200 to 500, and 500+ churches.
We've never run a campaign. Is this over our heads?
It was written for you. Every term is defined, every week is a checklist, every script is word for word.
How much time and money does it take?
Six weeks of runway, a few focused hours per week. The biggest growth lever (members inviting friends) costs about as much as printing business cards. Ads are optional.
Is this only for fall?
Fall is the most natural invite window, but the same runway works for any anchor Sunday. Buy once, run it every season.
What if it doesn't work for us?
Email within 30 days for a full refund. No forms, no hoops.
Start with the free guide.
Pick the perfect date for your Homecoming Sunday in ten minutes. Free. We'll send the one-page guide and a few short notes to help you plan your fall.
Get the free guide →Stop hoping. Start building.
Six weeks from now, the room looks the same, or it's the Sunday your church talks about for years.
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