Search Builder

First Time Attenders¶

The most reliable way to find first-time attenders is the Has Recent New Attend Condition. It finds people who attended recently after a long period with no attendance, regardless of attendance type or how many times they attended.

Has Recent New Attend¶

This Condition is on the Recent Attendance category tab in Search Builder. Enter:

Days - the recent period to search, for example 7.
Number of days for no attendance - how far back before that period the person must have no attendance, for example 365. If left blank, 365 days is used.

Then select True. Leave Program, Division and Involvement blank to include attendance anywhere in the church.

With these values, the search finds everyone who attended one or more times in the past 7 days and had not attended at all in the 365 days before that.

../_images/FirstTimeAttenders-HasRecentNewAttend.png — Has Recent New Attend: attended in the past 7 days, with no attendance in the previous 365 days¶

Other Conditions and their limits¶

Recent Attendance Type: Selecting the New Visitor attendance type finds people who attended an Involvement for the first time without being a member of it. It does not show whether this was their first visit to the church, only to that Involvement. People who register online and then attend are recorded as Member, not New Visitor, because they are already enrolled in the Involvement.
Recent Attendance Count: This Condition must be added twice, once for the recent period and once for a longer period, and both counts must match exactly. For example, someone who attended worship and a small group in the same week has two attendances, so both Conditions would need a count of 2.

Reports¶

The Reports menu also includes 1st, 2nd and 3rd Time Attender reports.