Millions of Canadians have never heard a clear presentation of the gospel of Christ. The Finding the Hope community outreach helps churches place a gospel message in every home to reach every heart.
Finding the Hope outreaches help you connect with every home in a neighbourhood or entire city. You select the area you want to reach, and we’ll mail the Finding the Hope gospel booklet to each home, along with an invitation to your church or your event.
Thanks to the postal system, we have an easy, efficient, and cost-effective way to deliver the gospel message. The Finding the Hope gospel message, along with information about your church, is mailed to every home in your selected postal codes.
Before the Finding the Hope packet arrives in people's homes, volunteers from your church can optionally place door hangers at the homes in your selected area. The hangers give people a heads up that the packet is coming to their mailbox. We print information about your church or special event on the back of the hanger.
The Finding the Hope packet includes multiple ways for people to respond and connect with your church:Â
“Our regular attendance of around 80 people rose to 96 on Palm Sunday and to 137 on Easter Sunday.”
Pastor – Greenfield Park, QC
Finding the Hope is more than just a booklet. We have created several resources that support a flexible strategy to help you reach your neighbourhood. In addition, our office will help you plan and implement a Finding the Hope outreach tailored to your specific vision.
Begin your outreach
Announce what’s coming to people’s mailboxes with a door hanger shortly before the scheduled mailing of the Finding the Hope packet. After your outreach, an additional door hanger creates another point of contact for your church. We imprint the church’s contact information on the back along with any message or invitation. Door hangers also provide a great opportunity for prayer walking in neighbourhoods!
Prayer is central to Finding the Hope outreaches. To help facilitate a prayer movement in every participating church, we created a card that folds to a pocket size and offers a 7-day prayer focus to assist prayer before, during and after the outreach.
We design and print informational cards about your church that fit inside the Finding the Hope packet. These cards help your church present its ministries to your neighbours, or invite people to a special event. These customized cards are included in your Finding the Hope packet.
The Finding the Hope community outreach brings the gospel message right to people’s mailbox. These outreaches are often the first contact from a local church for many individuals. The evangelistic packet contains the Finding the Hope gospel booklet, a letter of introduction, a response form with a postage-paid envelope for those who do not use technology, and an invitation to your church or event.
We support community outreaches with targeted Facebook ads before, during and after an outreach. The Facebook ads often reach beyond the neighbourhoods selected for the community outreach, identify the city or community, and provide the name and contact details of the church. It gives people beyond the scope of an outreach an opportunity to read the Finding the Hope booklet online and order a copy, along with the free book Seven Days with Jesus. Thousands of impressions are recorded every time!
Components of the Finding the Hope outreach invite people to visit findingthehope.com, a website dedicated to helping people find out more about Jesus and his gospel message, discover the Christian faith, and request follow-up. The site also provides the contact information of every participating church, so people can easily find a church near them and connect with people of hope!
Finding the Hope helps you:
Every home in your target area can be reached for less than $1.00 per home. This includes the Finding the Hope gospel packet, and the follow-up book Seven Days with Jesus for everyone who responds.
With decades of experience in a variety of cultures across the globe, we know that the Finding the Hope outreach can impact your community. We are here to help!
“The Finding the Hope outreach was a great experience for our church.”
Pastor – Gatineau, QC
Finding the Hope is highly flexible. It's not a one-size-fits-all outreach. We work together to tailor the process to your vision and customize Finding the Hope for your specific needs.
First, you and any other church you're collaborating with identify the area you want to reach, assemble your coordinating team, and develop your local strategy. Our Campaign Coordinator will provide you with an outreach guide to walk you through this process.
We believe it's essential that churches establish a prayer team for a Finding the Hope outreach. Evangelism is a spiritual work. Your evangelistic efforts will be much more effective with prayer support. Many churches plan prayer walks, services, or other prayer-focused events before the Finding the Hope packet arrives in people's homes.
We mail the Finding the Hope packet to all the homes you've selected. Alternatively, members of your church can hand deliver the packet. The Finding the Hope packet includes a letter of introduction, a richly illustrated gospel booklet, and an invitation from your church to a special event or church service.
Effectively reaching your community is an ongoing process that doesn't need to end after your Finding the Hope outreach. Many churches continue reaching their neighbourhoods and inviting people to special events. Some churches have hosted concerts, movie nights, breakfasts of hope, barbecues, and more for their communities. The possibilities are endless for your ongoing outreach plans.
We give every person who responds to any part of the Finding the Hope outreach our free follow-up book, Seven Days with Jesus. This book is written to help people take their first steps into discipleship. We encourage local churches to engage new believers in ongoing discipleship after a Finding the Hope outreach.
After the Finding the Hope packet arrives in the homes you've selected, our resources and strategy will remain available to you for your ongoing outreach efforts. This includes a page for your church on our follow-up website.
Eva is a senior lady in Alberta. In the summer she hands out Finding the Hope booklets to children in her VBS. At Christmas time she includes a booklet in the buyers’ bags at her church’s Holiday bake sale.
Gino and Tracey travelled from Eastern to Western Canada on their motorcycle and brought along Finding the Hope booklets. They wrote: “We use the booklets to spread the gospel message as we travel. This is why we are placing a big order so that no matter where we are, we can give people the message that leads them to Christ.”
Since participating in the Finding the Hope outreach our church has developed a positive “can-do!” attitude about evangelism. We now know from experience that we have the ability to evangelize in a non-threatening way.
After serving a 12-year prison sentence for killing his brother, this devout Hindu from a South Asian nation, said he had unsuccessfully tried to rid himself of guilt through his religious practices. Through the gospel literature he received from EHC, he learned that Jesus died on the cross for his sins and found the freedom that only Christ gives. Now he attends a Christ Group fellowship and testifies to others of the love of Christ.
Peter lives in Guam and spent years in and out of prison. He thought it would always be that way until an EHC team knocked on his door. He was reluctant to talk, but soon a conversation began. Peter prayed to receive Christ and now, he is leading others to the Lord, including family members.
A lady who has been attending for a few months received Christ as her Saviour in one of our services. She later showed me the Finding Hope booklet she received last year and said that it had prompted her to start attending our church!
Jim is part of a group that reclaims food and goods from grocery stores and redistributes these items to homeless and disadvantaged people in Southern Ontario. They include the Finding the Hope booklet in the parcels they distribute and give the message of hope along with basic necessities.
Gary and his wife Beth include a Finding the Hope booklet in homemade Christmas cards which they distribute at a nursing home where they visit and minister to people.
The initial outreach is done but our Finding the Hope committee still meets and continues to plan other outreach events to connect with the community. We have weekly prayer meetings and encourage our congregation to do acts of kindness in our city.
Pastor – Cornwall, ON
We make it easy for people to learn the name of any and all participating churches:
In general, we need a minimum of 6 weeks to identify the mail parameters and assemble the packets that will be mailed. If the outreach includes many customized features, add-ins, and associated events, it will take longer to prepare. In some areas of the country, additional time is needed for Canada Post to deliver the packets to homes on the chosen mailing date.
The participating churches, in collaboration with our coordinator, decide how many homes can be reached.
When it comes to prayer initiatives and promotion of the outreach, such as placing door hangers, the local committee and churches decide who will focus on what area. The goal is to provide the gospel message to people home by home.
Some churches set aside an amount from their outreach budget. Others receive special offerings from their congregation.
No problem! The outreach can be tailored to your specifications. If you would rather have the booklets hand-delivered by volunteers, that can be done. If you would rather not host an event, no problem. Everything you see on this page is a snapshot of the possibilities.
Yes! We are more than happy for you to keep sending people to the Finding the Hope website for as long as you want. Your church will remain listed on the website indefinitely, so anyone who visits the site or uses our Church Finder can come across your church’s listing.
Yes! Special bulk prices are available for churches that have partnered with Finding the Hope. We want to equip caring people who will happily sow the seeds of hope in Christ as an ongoing practice. You can also stock some of these booklets as part of your integration strategy and discipleship ministry.
The Finding the Hope method is very effective in sowing the gospel message, using the only mechanism available to place the message in every home in Canada—the postal service. A Finding the Hope outreach makes the gospel present to every home in a community, creating significant opportunities for people beyond the normal reach of the local church.
Leave us a message and we'll connect with you to arrange an introductory phone call. We'll help you plan and customize a Finding the Hope outreach for your neighbourhood or city.