Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
Are you prepared for to receive new church visitors at Christmas time?I want to give you 5 areas to consider improving your church welcome for your first time visitors when the come this Christmas Season. 1. Train Greeters Greeters can provide a warm handshake, helpful information and walk a … [Read more...]
Most churches experience an influx of church visitors at Christmas time.Some are out of town guests. Other church visitors seek out the Christmas traditions of their youth. Others are awakening to their spiritual thirst.Churches have special activities that are geared at increasing the … [Read more...]
I had an interesting experience the other night at one of those huge superstores.I was the first time visitor to that store and felt completely lost and out of place.What words might you accidentally use to make your first time church visitor feel clueless or ignorant?What words does … [Read more...]
I am a church strengthening consultant for the Montana Baptist Convention.Our analysis of several churches showed that the “friendship” factor was low and was costing them the retention and assimilation of first time guests who were passing through their churches without a second visit.I … [Read more...]
It’s church hospitality week. All this week, I’ll be sharing posts on ways you can improve your church hospitality experience. Be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to get new posts as soon as they come out. Is your church friendly? Most church members, of any church, would answer … [Read more...]
In the picture to the right, this lady with the child was visiting the church for the first time.When the service was over she came up to the pastor and I (I was the guest preacher, and pastor is to my right).She began to talk with us.She had been walking by the church and heard the … [Read more...]
I like the simplicity of the book because it makes for an easy read. I now have a clearer picture of the greeters role and will take this to my team when we meet this weekend.We were also wondering what to include in the welcome packets that we planned to put together. We had some ideas and … [Read more...]
Tonight I release another free download resource:Church Hospitality Audit 2.0The original Church Hospitality Assessment was released February 2007 and has been downloaded over 2100 times. Download your Free Church Hospitality SurveyUse this church hospitality survey form as part of … [Read more...]
A reader contacted me: “Pastor, our small church needs help organizing a Friends and Family day for the end of August to launch our new season. Can you help us?”As we talked further on the phone, we kicked around a few ideas unique to their church, but developed some ideas that are useful to … [Read more...]
Check out this video (the volume on the final credit page gets really loud. . .. )Video: [Thoughts of a Church Visitor]I found this video this morning while preparing for a workshop in Richmond VA.It captures the private thoughts of a first time church visitor as they prepare to come … [Read more...]
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