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    How to Grow an Adoration Program

    8/5/2020

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    Use Software
    The first thing you will want to do to grow your adoration program is to sign up for adoration management software like AdorationPro.  AdorationPro will free you up to spend more time on promoting adoration. If you are busy chasing subs around and filling empty spots, you won't have time to promote adoration.

    Promote at Mass
    Probably the best thing you can do is have your adoration program announced at Mass. Even better would be if the pastor could personally recommend signing up for a time slot either during the homily or before/after Mass. If you already have AdorationPro, you can make iPads and computers available after Mass to allow people to sign up direclty into AdorationPro. You can also promote your link to AdorationPro on flyers or signs for those passing by quickly. By using AdorationPro, new adorers can quickly see what spots are available and sign up directly after into the system. You won't have to spend time converting hand written sign ups into adorers. You might even have volunteers holding the iPads and helping new adorers sign up.

    Promote the AdorationPro Link Everywhere
    When you sign up for AdorationPro, you will receive a special website address that is just for your adoration program. You can promote this address in the bulletin, at the end of all staff emails in the signature field, in bulk email announcements, and on flyers around the church. Anywhere anything is promoted, make sure your adoration program is also promoted and include your AdorationPro website address.

    Use the Kiosk
    AdorationPro can use an iPad for a kiosk to help regular adorers and visitors sign in. The kiosk will make it easy for visitors to sign up for a permanent hour or become a sub.'

    Personal Emails & Social Media
    Gather a few key steakholders in the adoration program and have them all send out personal email invitations. Be sure to use your AdorationPro website address. You can do the same thing with Facebook and other Social Media outlets. Send out messages inviting friends to join. You can also make general status posts about your adoration program.
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    Starting Small with Eucharistic Adoration at Your Parish

    8/5/2020

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    While you may have a long term goal of perpetual adoration, you can easily get started with only a few hours of Adoration per week. The advantage to starting small is that you, as the administrator or coordinator, can slowly work your way into learning everything that goes into running an Adoration program.

    There will be many logistics to learn such as exposing the Eucharist and reposing the Eucharist. You will also need to manage sign ups, sign ins, and attendance. Of course, we highly recommend that launch your Adoration program right from the start by using AdorationPro, our custom program for scheduling Eucharistic Adoration. 

    Easy Signs Ups
    AdorationPro provides you with a public website address from which people can sign up for individual hours. You can share this URL in the various ways:
    • bulletin
    • email announcements
    • projector slides
    • announcements
    • newsletter
    • personal emails
    • emails from faith formation and other groups
    • iPads or computers after Mass

    By directing everyone to the online sign up, adorers are entered exactly into the system where they need to be. You save yourself the time of converting paper signs ups into sign ups in the system. However, if you prefer, you can still manually enter adorers into AdorationPro.

    Easy Hour Adjustments
    In AdorationPro, you can easily adjust how many hours you have Adoration. A simple start might be to begin with 5 hours on Friday such as from 9am-2pm.  You can select only these hours to show in AdorationPro which means when you do your above promotion, it will be very easy to fill those 5 available hours. You can even make AdorationPro turn off the sign up button for a given hour once a certain number of adorers sign up. For example, you can set AdorationPro so that after 3 adorers sign up for an hour, the sign up button disappears.  This forces adorers to pick another time slot.  Under this plan, you only need 15 adorers to fill your 5 hour slots. If you are able to fill these slots quickly, then you can easily add more hours in AdorarationPro and do the above annnouncements and promotions again to fill your new slots. Or, you can run Adoration with only 5 hours a week for a few weeks to study all the moving parts. If you run the program smoothly for 3 weeks with only 5 hours per week, then you will likely run things smoothly for 10 hours per week. So, you could add in more hours such as from 2pm-7pm on Fridays.  Or, instead of extending Fridays you could add Thursdays from 9am-2pm.  Of course your local schedule of Masses and other activities may dictate which hours work best. The point is to start small and to grow carefully.  The success of few hours will signal to the parish that you know what you are doing and that the program is sustainable.

    Consider Saving Night Hours for Last
    It probably makes the most sense to fill in the day hours for 5-7 days per week before moving into night hours. With day hours you likely have staff at the church who can help with any problems. You also completely avoid any nighttime security issues. While 24/7 adoration is a wondeful goal, it probably makes sense to expand into the daytime hours first. Again, the beauty of using AdorationPro is that you can easily add these hours and request sign ups.
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