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 guest to classes or the sanctuary if needed.

Greeting is more than just a hello.  It is a first impression.

I’ve got some free church greeter training videos here.

Or, purchase this DVD or Download video done in September 2011 to train greeters as a refresher.

Why is this important? Read these tweets and you get the idea.

Greeter at church- “How’s college? Have they kicked you out yet?” Not sure what this says about me.  –Twitter User

The greeter at church always flirts with me………uncomfortable!! — Twitter User

Way to go folks. Brought a visitor to church. Overheard “well that ain’t no way to dress for church.” — Twitter User

2. Cast a Hospitality Vision

Being friendly to your church visitor means that the church family is listening, inviting, encouraging, and caring.

Help your church get that vision for hospitality by casting it  when you can in sermons, meetings, and Sunday school classes. (Audio download from the store).

Church Visitors should be greeted by someone around them, not just the greeter at the door.

Particularly the lonely ones who may be away from family this time of year.

3. Church Visitors Welcome Packet.

Prepare Welcome Packets for your guest.

Read How to Prepare a welcome packet, perpetually one of the 10 ten articles on this website each year.

Include current information on upcoming programs and an invitation to meet with the pastor.

4.  Have a reception after the service.

Have a coffee/snack reception after the service.

This allows time for

• conversations with your church visitors to occur,
• for prayer to happen, and
• for your guests to meet with the pastors.

Beverages:

Make the coffee fresh and of appropriate strength. It shouldn’t be reheated from last night’s fellowship event nor should it be so weak as to taste like colored water.

While it doesn’t take a lot of skill to make coffee, making it right is the challenge.  Coffee drinkers know a good cup of coffee, and a bad cup will leave a bad taste.

Don’t forget to make enough – sometimes the pot gets drained before visitors have had a chance to get to the urn.

Offer alternatives such as teas, juice, ice cold water. If you choose to use bottled water, offer a recycle container for empty bottles.

Food:

Whatever snack items are offered, make sure they are fresh.

Stale sweets, or frozen items that had been thawed simply taste cheap and do not make a great first impression.

Consider common food allergies and either avoid those (like nuts) or provide an appropriate sign.

In our health conscious time, provide healthy options for those that don’t want sugary cookies or sticky sweets.

5.  Post visit Welcome Letter

Assuming you got church visitor contact information during the worship service, you’ll want to send them a nice follow up letter.

Be sure to include an invitation to return to the next worship service, as well as some upcoming event or service.

Don’t bother with “we are here to serve you, if you need anything.”

Instead, invite them to join you on a mission or upcoming event.

For example, “We believe in serving our neighborhood and being the best church for the community.  This month on [date] we’re going to serve the homeless and invite you to join us on that mission.”

Next steps

What are some areas that you would add?

Please share them in the comments below.

• 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 number of personal invitations that members give.

While your attendance may swell at Christmas time, the critical question is

• How can you get your church visitors to come back after visiting your church this Christmas season?

Here are four factors to keep in mind.

1. A excellent and meaningful Christmas worship experience.

Make sure all your Christmas season events and worship services are done with excellence and quality.

Don’t let sloppiness or a lacksidasical attitude hinder your visitors experience of the Christmas season.

Think about your worship experiences and ask “Is this helping our visitors and members experience God and hear God’s truth?”

If a visitor doesn’t have a sense of encountering God during their visit, it’s highly unlikely they will return.  Instead, they’ll simply wonder “What’s the point of that?”

2.  Well done hospitality that reflects Christmas cheer.

Remove the unnecessary barriers to a return visit.

• Make sure your greeters are smiling at Christmas.   Read 10 Tips for Greeters.
• Make sure your facility is cleaned up and well decorated.
• Make sure your processes of getting from parking lot to pew are frictionless.
• Make sure your bulletins are easy to follow.

And most of all, make sure your members people say hello to the visitors.

There is lots of other information on this website about church hospitality.

Create the best experience possible at Christmas.

You can’t make a long term influence for Christ on a church visitor if they don’t come back to your church.

3.  Use the Advent time build momentum for your January sermon series.

The four weeks of advent is also a great time to start promoting your post Christmas sermon series.

Pick a topic that is relevant to life.

Do a six week  sermon series connected with the launch of new small groups.

These are great avenues to invite people back to church after the Christmas season is over.

Small groups allow for relationships to form, which increases the possibility your visitor will become a regular attender.

4.  Get visitor contact information.

There are many ways to get contact information.

I recommend the use of contact cards.   (Read and listen: How to Get Church Visitor Contact Information).  In our congregation, we are small enough to recognize first time vistiors. We hand them first time visitor cards.

Drop a note or Christmas card in the mail.

Invite them to other Christmas specials.  Remind your visitors they can bring a friend.

Also, use the card to remind your church visitors of the upcoming January series.

Even drop a little gift in the mail like a $5 gift card or gas card.

Some churches still make a personal visit within 24-48 hours.

Find ways to show honor to your visitor and invite them to return for January’s sermon series.

You can’t follow up if you don’t get any contact information.

Let me ask you this?

What specifically are you doing to be intentional about inviting your church visitors to return after Christmas?

Please share in the comments below.

Your pastor calls you on Thursday and says

We are preparing the church bulletin.

Would you like to be our liturgist and give the welcome speech on Sunday?

Your heart races, the mouth goes dry.  You think:

Me?  I have to say something in front of all those people?

But since you want to

• please the pastor, or
• volunteer your time, or
• practice good church hospitality because you know its the right thing to do,

you suspend your fear for just a moment and say yes.

How do I say a welcome at church?

When you hang up the phone its a race to Google and type in something like:

• How to Say the Welcome at/in Church
• How can I say a/the welcome in a church
• How do you say a church welcome at church functions
• How to do church greeting
• How to give a welcome address in the church
• How to give welcome address for church visitors
• How to give a church welcome
• How to give welcome speeches for church visitors

I know, because this question and variants are common for my website and in my coaching practice.  I was surprised by the number of queries asked of me, so let me give you some tips.

5 Tips to Prepare the Welcome Speech at Church

1.  There is no magic formula to a church welcome speech.

I wish I could give you a script.  I’m often asked for a script. You might even be looking for sample welcome speeches to give at church.

But churches are so unique, each church visitor is unique, every person who does this unique, and every worship service is unique.

Even the location of the greeting is so unique to every church.  Some give this welcome greeting at the beginning of the service, others in the middle in relationship to their connection card, and others at the very end after the worship is over.

What you will say in your welcome speech at church is dependent on lots of other variables.

2.  To design a welcome speech, think like a first time church visitor.

Once first time church visitors get to the sanctuary and are participating in the worship service, first time church visitors have common questions.

• Will I fit in here with this group of people?
• Is this a place where I can serve?
• How do I get more information about this church?
• Will this place help me grow in my relationship with God?

Depending on where your welcome or greeting speech for visitors is located in the service, you may want to address one or two of those typical questions.

3.  Typical parts of a church welcome speech

Your welcome speech doesn’t have to be long at all.

Most church welcome speeches start with some kind of acknowledgment or appreciation of the visitor’s presence.

• If you are here for the first time today, we’re glad you are here.
• We want to give a special welcome to our first time visitors today.

Some may then move on to address a potential fear in the mind of a church visitor at this point.  For example

• We won’t make you stand up if you don’t want to  . . .  .
• We want to give you space to be as anonymous as you want . . .

Some may then move on to how to learn more.  For example

• We invite you to visit the welcome center.
• If you’ll raise your hand, the ushers will give you a welcome packet that we’ve prepared just for you.
• If you’ll fill out your connection card, we’d love to send you a gift.

Some move into an invitation to some volunteer mission work or connection point that is upcoming.

• We are building houses for Habitat this next Saturday and we invite you to come and serve with us and meet more people who might just be the ones to help you grow in your faith.
• This Friday, we’re having a newcomers gathering at the pastors house.  Come and meet new people and get some of your questions answered.

4.  Invite them to join your church’s mission

That last part is a big deal for me.

I don’t know about you, but the generic “we are here to serve you” speech falls on my deaf ears.

I find that the more and more I hear that, the less I pay attention.

Why?

“I don’t know how the church can serve me.  I know nothing about it.  I don’t know their programs, I don’t know their people.  They don’t know me.”

What catches my attention is the church’s mission and programming.

What is your church’s unique mission and how are you expressing that in your programing in the next few weeks.

Think like a visitor.

What would motivate you to explore more of the church’s programming / service

• We are here to serve you.
• We are building houses for Habitat this next Saturday and you are invited to come serve with us.

You don’t need to cover every announcement every week, but pick one program expression that you want to invite people to.

This is simply suggesting a next step in a first time church visitors process of connecting with your church.

5.  Cover your visitor welcome speech with Prayer.

As you prepare your welcome greeting, pray for your part in the service.

Your part is one of many that the Lord may choose to use in helping people make another step of growth in their spiritual journey.

If you are a layperson, pray that the Lord will give you the right words for that particular crowd on that particular worship service on that particular day.

Let me ask you this?

What advice would you give to someone who is nervous about composing or giving a church welcome speech?  Use the comment field below

Tonight I was asked by a guy in our church
to be a “Greeter” which means
I’d shake people’s hands as they come in.
(Twitter user)

Being a greeter is much more than shaking hands as people walk in the door of your church during worship services.

So many churches simply recruit warm bodies to fill the role of church greeter without much

• thought,
• training, or
• planning

into the role that greeters have come to play in American churches.

Greeters are the front line of your church’s hospitality ministry.

They are a vital part of your organized friendliness that helps members and visitors connect.

But how do you train greeters?

(There are only so may ways to say “Good Morning”.)

What does a church greeter training meeting look like?

What resources might be available to help with recruiting and organizing greeters?

Author of The Work of the Greeter, Paige Lanier Chargois has found some insights from her research and experience across the United states and 47 different countries.

She’ll join us in the next installment of the EvangelismCoach.org webinar series

Thank you for providing this valuable service. I attend a smaller church and there were several points that we will be able to work on for an improved more complete welcome to those who are seeking to worship together with their brothers and sisters. Thank you. I look forward to going over the presentation power point with our group next.

Diane

Webinar Resources:

• The Work of the Greeter
• Certain Women Called By Christ:  Biblical Realities for Today
• Church Greeters 101, order ebook online
• Back to School Season Greeter Training webinar DVD or Download (order online)

New Church Greeter Training DVD for purchase

I’ve recorded  an on-line training event for

• First time greeters and Ushers
• Potential Greeter and Usher Volunteers
• Hospitality ministry organizers who want a review.
• Current Greeters and Ushers

to help you give that last minute training.

You’ll

• Sharpen your own skills to greet
• Receive a fresh vision for effective greeting
• Overcome the awkwardness some new greeters feel
• Learn some helpful things to say to make small talk with guests.

Read more:

http://www.evangelismcoach.org/store/back-to-school-season-greeter-training/

Replay of Pagie’s Church Greeter webinar

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Who is Paige Lanier Chargois?

Her first solo book is Certain Women Called By Christ:  Biblical Realities for Today which is based on the Gospel of Luke 8:1-3.

Her second book, The Work of the Greeter was released in June ’09.  It provides the biblical basis of hospitality along with practical directions and instructive information about launching or sustaining a congregation’s greeters ministry.  It is part of Judson’s book series covering every task in the church.

Paige has served as Director of Membership and Maturity with the Saint Paul’s Baptist Church in Richmond VA at which she developed the structure to accomplish the Pastor’s vision for small groups.  More recently she has served as the Pastor of First Baptist Church in Franklin, VA.

Dr. Chargois teaches theology, world religions, and missions at Richmond Virginia Seminary.  She is a member of the Saint Paul’s church family, and continues to serve the Kingdom of our Lord as a church consultant, leadership trainer, workshop leader, and Bible teacher along with being tapped to preach at churches and retreats.

1.  Preprint church name tags for your regular attendees

One church set up two large registration areas.

One has preprinted tags for regular attendees and blank name tags for first-time guests.   To get a name tag, each guest completes a registration information card. The next week, those guests have preprinted name tags waiting for them.

Another area has preprinted name tags for staff and core volunteers such as the prayer team or ushers.

First time guests are somewhat easy to identify because their name tags are handwritten.  This can help your ushers and greeters connect them with more information and resources about the church.

Yet, this “obvious” distinction may have an unintended consequence of showing a visitor that they are yet “different” as the nametag is not like the others.  You know your local culture to be able to discern how people might feel about this.

2. Handwritten name tags every Sunday

Another church has a stack of labels every Sunday.

All members and visitors fill one out as part of their “culture.”

All are handwritten, avoiding some of the concerns of the pre-printed ones

This takes administrative burden off the staff, but requires that your regular members understand the reason for doing this every week.

One church shared with me they preprint a theme logo, plus the branding of the church with its phone number, name, and website.  Sometimes they will use an image for a special event that week, like a Baptism, or communion.

3.  Distribution of name tags

Churches need to design a system that works for them.

Some will have a board of some kind near entrances where members can obtain their name badge and return it when the service is over.

Visitor centers or guest information booths will have greeters staffed to provide name tags for visitors.

4.  Recollecting name tags

Some may have one central area near the entrance, and make announcements in the bulletin about how to return the nametag.

Inevitably, some will get ripped, accidentally taken home and put through the wash, or just somehow lost.

Part of your ongoing maintenance of a name tag initiative is replacing lost ones, torn ones, or overly doodled nametags.

I’m familiar with churches where about every quarter, leadership reminds people of the reason behind the name tags and that begins a new wave of organizing, using, and distributing.

Let me ask you this?

• What style of nametag do you use that you have found effective?
• How do you distribute them?
• How do you recollect them?
• How do you maintain them?

Share your thoughts in the comment field below (Feed or email readers: click through to find the comment field).

See also

• Using Name Tags in Church
• Why Use Name Tags in Church

For more church hospitality tips on welcoming church visitors, buy your copy of How To Welcome Church Visitors.

Why are church hospitality committees looking to improve their hospitality ministry in their church by buying my book?

• Fear that a visitor to their church will come a few times and still not feel welcome.
• Fear that a church visitor will be overlooked.
• Fear that a first time church visitors will not welcomed because of the actions of untrained church greeters.
• Fear that their church greeters will be too overzealous and drive visitors away.

Readers find that these fears are calmed somewhat by this practical “how to book.”

In it they find over 60 practical hospitality ideas for new church visitors and how to organize their church hospitality.

Results not guaranteed

You might be thinking – If I buy your book, will I see results?  Yes, but with qualification.

The risk is assuming that the church hospitality ideas found inside this book are a formula that will guarantee the results.

“If I perfect the system, I’ll get the results. .. ”

That’s flawed thinking.

This thinking might work for weight loss, making money on line or fixing your golf swing, but not building your church.

Church’s come in different sizes, shapes, local cultures, and different theological traditions.

Hospitality ideas in the church may works in one place, but the same church hospitality idea may not work in another context.

For example, a personal visit to the home of a first time visitor that Sunday afternoon, unannounced, may still work in some places, but would be considered intrusive in others.

Identifying visitors by making them stand up, wear a visitor badge, or sign a guest book might work in some places, but fail miserably in others.  (By the way, I don’t recommend any of these ideas).

The point is, technique doesn’t automatically build relationship.

The goal is relationship.

The goal of your church hospitality ministry is to facilitate emotional and relational connections with the church family.

The goal of your greeting ministry is to remove easy barriers to making that happen.

Hospitality ministries are one of many pieces – ministry events, small groups, etc — to help that process happen.

Techniques help, but if your congregation isn’t truly friendly to your guests, you still won’t get the result you are looking for — growth.

Think of the goal first.

Then work backwards and ask yourself –

• Does this hospitality practice help or hinder that goal?
• What additional practices can we do to facilitate relational connections with the congregation?

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Church Hospitality Trainers
The Welcome & Hospitality People
Houston, TX

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How To Welcome Church Visitors is a well-written, thought-provoking resource that is going to be a blessing to anyone who reads and applies it’s content to their church needs.

This book is especially important to me, as I serve on my church evangelism board and recently volunteered to manage our greeter program.

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Chris Walker’s coaching ability is wonderful. He’s a clear thinker with a way of cutting through the clutter and confusion surrounding a problem.  He focuses on the most practical path to a resolution and effectively communicates how to reach the intended goal.

Les Dahlstedt
St. Matthew Lutheran Church
Rocklin, CA

The Rev. Paul Stokes has published a review for GEAR (the Group for Evangelism and Renewal in the United Reformed Church).

Ron Crandall, connected with Asbury seminary, wrote about his take on this book.

One Presbytery in the Presbyterian Church (USA) bought and gave away copies of How To Welcome Church Visitors to over 50 of their church congregations.

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The writer gave this as part of their Hospitality training to their welcoming ministries team in a mid-size congregation, so some may be worded for their context.  They have chosen to use the word guest for their church visitors.

H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L-I-T-Y

H is for HOST

The word hospitality is defined as the relationship process between a guest and a host.

Christian hospitality flows out of our relationship with God, who has graciously shared His riches with us, resulting in our salvation and adoption into His family.

God is the host, and we experience His gracious hospitality. As recipients of God’s hospitality, we also must act as hosts as we welcome the stranger among us. (See Luke 24)

O is for OPPORTUNITY

Although it is much easier for some people than for others, we all possess some type of spiritual gift towards hospitality to others.

We need to see this as our opportunity to serve others as Christ has served us.

Romans 15:7 says, “Welcome one another therefore just as Christ has welcomed you for the glory of God.”

Through hospitality, we have the opportunity to imitate God’s welcome.

S is for SENSITIVITY

In order for us to effectively serve as ministers of welcome, it is important for us to understand the mind of the typical guest to church.

Most want to be welcomed, observe our church worship services, and be provided an easy opening if they choose to come again.

Most of all, they do NOT want to be pressured.

We have to be sensitive to these characteristics of the guest.

Think of a time when you, yourself, were a first-time guest in a strange place… where everyone seemed to know everyone else, except you! How did you feel? Were you uncomfortable? Self-conscious? Nervous?

Leviticus 19:33-34 commands Israel to welcome strangers because of their experience in Egypt. “When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.” They were not to oppress the alien because they knew how it felt when they were in Egypt.

P is for PREPARATION

We need to be sensitive to the guests needs, and must prepare ourselves for company to come.

We need to know how to identify a guest.

The most obvious way for us to figure out if someone is a guest is if we do not recognize the person or persons. But, if we don’t feel like we know all that many people who attend our church, here are a few tips on how to tell if they are newcomers:

First time guests usually arrive early. Many of them do not take the initiative to introduce themselves when in a new place. They typically stand back and observe the space and the people in that space.

For example, if a greeter sees someone walk into the [our fellowship hall], then stop to look around and read signs…the person is most likely visiting for the first time.  They usually prefer to “size-up” the church before they are recognized as a visitor…if they want to be recognized at all! So, it is important not to bombard them with too much welcoming!

Some guests are obvious – standing around, reading brochures that they pick up off of the desk, and are generally being overlooked. When they are sitting in the worship area, they often have their head down reading the bulletin.

They are often those people that we forget to extend a welcoming hand to, particularly those “invisible people” who are quieter and less conspicuous. They may differ from others in the congregation in what they wear, their skin color, or their language.

I is for INTEREST

The next thing needed in order to prepare ourselves for company coming is how to approach the guest. The main thing to understand about this is the importance of showing genuine interest in the individual (s).

When someone comes into your parking lots, buildings, or worship areas, you should approach them by saying something like, “We’re glad to have you here today! I don’t know if we’ve met. My name is …………………”

You should avoid saying, “Is this your first time at our church?”, because you might embarrass yourself or offend someone who is a regular attendee.

It is important to point out that visitors have a way of sensing if someone is genuinely interested in them or not. If phoniness or indifference is at all present in the encounter that they have with people at our church, they can usually sense it.

The first few seconds will shape their impression of the congregation. They can usually tell immediately if the church is a place of welcome, acceptance, and friendship or not.

T is for Team Effort

Being ministers of welcome is a team effort! Although welcoming guests to church SHOULD be the job of the entire congregation, we can’t assume that everyone will always seek out guests and make the effort to welcome them.

From the second someone drives into your parking lots until they get back into their automobiles to leave, you need to have a team of people whose sole purpose is being welcoming to all who come. And it takes many people to accomplish this, because one person can only be stationed at one place at a time!

A is for Acceptance

The next point I would like to make is the importance of being accepting of guests just AS they are and WHERE they are in their faith journey. No matter how they are dressed, how they smell, or how they talk…..they should be seen as God’s honored guests. They may, in fact, be sent directly by God.

Hebrews 13:2 says, “Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.” Angels are all around us and we never know when we will be entertaining one.

L is for LOVE

We should show Christian hospitality in all situations with genuine acceptance and love. We need to do our best to love the outsiders, to love those who have lost their way in life and remember that when we receive them with hospitality we’re doing it to Jesus.

I is for INFORM and INTRODUCE

Part of helping people to feel accepted and welcomed is by helping them to connect both by informing and introducing.

So, we all need to be familiar with things such as where our rest rooms are located and where other key areas, like nurseries and children’s Sunday school classes, are located so that we can inform our guests.

We can also introduce them to regular attendees who are close by who might be able to answer any questions that we may not have the answer to.

So that you don’t have to leave your post, introducing guests to friendly regulars could be an opportunity for the guest to meet people and have someone to sit with during worship.

T is for TIMELINESS

In order to make certain that as many guests as possible are warmly welcomed, it is important for us to all be timely to begin our various duties.

We don’t want to miss a single opportunity to meet someone in the parking lot, the fellowship area, or the worship area that may be searching for help in life and hoping that someone will care about them.

We don’t want to miss a chance to reach out to people who need the hope of Jesus in a world where few people really seem to care about them.

Y is for Yahweh

Hospitality stands at the center of biblical faith and can’t be taken lightly, because it’s how God treats every one of us.

We find in scripture, from Genesis where God provides a garden right through to Revelation where God provides a new heaven and new earth.

It’s a theme that is repeated over and over. It helps us to understand God’s will for us. In Psalm 23, the psalmist tells us that in Yahweh’s tent we find protection and a gracious welcome.

This is divine hospitality, of God actually making space for us. It’s not temporary but for eternity. Even in the face of all that might be against us, Yahweh still provides a safe place for us.

Chris Walker’s coaching ability is wonderful.  He’s a clear thinker with a way of cutting through the clutter and confusion surrounding a problem.

He focuses on the most practical path to a resolution and effectively communicates how to reach the intended goal.

He then went on to talk about his experience of the book:

How To Welcome Church Visitors is a well-written, thought-provoking resource that is going to be a blessing to anyone who reads and applies it’s content to their church needs.

This book is especially important to me, as I serve on my church evangelism board and recently volunteered to manage our greeter program.

I measure the worth of a book by the number of ideas I’m able to apply to real needs. I found no fewer than 25 great ideas that I can apply immediately!

I recommend this book without reservation.

Les Dahlstedt
St. Matthew Lutheran Church,
Rocklan CA
Evangelism Board

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