The Essential Church Event Planning Guide
Great events don’t fail because the idea was bad. They fail because planning and promotion started too late. This guide gives your church the structure you need to plan ahead, stay organized, and avoid last-minute chaos.
What's Inside
When you download this church event planning guide, you’ll get:
Event Planning Timelines
Clear timelines for internal, community, and large external events so you always know when to start planning. You’ll never have to scramble at the last minute again.
Event Planning Worksheet
A one-page organizer that captures all the essential details of each event and helps plan dates, budget, teams, promotion, and follow-up, so nothing slips through the cracks.
Sample Event Plan
See the guide in action with a filled-in example. This makes it easy to adapt the planner to your own events right away.
Event Health Assessment
A post-event church event planning checklist to grade your event and identify areas for improvement.
Why You Need This Guide
Pastors and church leaders already juggle preaching, discipleship, and leadership responsibilities. Event planning often gets pushed to the last minute, and the result is low attendance, missed opportunities, and unnecessary stress.
This free church event planning guide is designed to:
Help you plan church events with confidence
Give your team a repeatable system they can actually follow
Ensure every event has purpose, clarity, and impact