I felt so out of place. I was polite and attended their church service at their invitation.But apart from the sermon, the order of service and communal prayers and responses were all completely different from anything I had experienced.My family and I attended a church service yesterday, in a Christian faith tradition completely different … [Read more...]
Do you need Bible verses to consider for your hospitality committee devotions?Perhaps you need a list of welcoming bible verses for your greeter ministry?You can turn this list into a simple email to your greeter volunteers as a reminder of how they are called to extend an awesome welcome to your visitors and regular attenders.You … [Read more...]
You know that church greeters can be a great asset to your hospitality ministry.But one thing I encounter frequently from my readers is: Is there a Greeter Training DVD I can show? At this moment, I have made two DVDs for greeter training.Greeter Training Webinar #1, Recorded in 2011 Greeter Training Webinar #2, Recorded in … [Read more...]
Not too long ago, a major Christian conference came to our city.Guests were coming from all over the region to attend this multi-day event.Members of our church offered their homes to host out of town guests, as an act of Christian love, that of hospitality.Christian Hospitality is a larger topic than Church Hospitality, so I want to … [Read more...]
If you had a $2500 budget to spend on improving your church for a better welcome, where would you spend it?This could be a great discussion starter for your hospitality committee to help reveal some dreams and vision development. Use it as a brainstormer an capture the ideas. If you had $2500 to spend, what would you do with it to improve … [Read more...]
Here is a common email I receive (composed from various ones): I'm having a hard time finding volunteers who believe in the ministry of hospitality. They think everyone should be doing this automatically.Our church doesn't have enough people who are interested in being greeters. We can't get any volunteers. .We've not ever organized our … [Read more...]
Does your church hospitality committee call itself something like:Evangelism Committee Evangelism and Outreach Committee Witness Committee?I've encountered several church committees with similar descriptions like this: (Evangelism) Ministry Team is responsible for greeting visitors to our church.Visitors receive a visit from a … [Read more...]
What do you want your church visitors to think when they experience your church?You're crazy. God is in your midst.Last night, I taught in a church that is planting two more churches here in 2013.This is a young congregation, under 4 years old, already raising money and training leaders for future church plants.I asked them the … [Read more...]
Here is a practical discussion starter to use in a church greeter training meeting.The goal of the discussion starter is for your greeter team to think through ways they might respond to a person with such questions.Every church wants their guests to return, and not be driven away by church greeters who say embarrassing things.How your … [Read more...]
Recently, I was asked via Ask EvangelismCoach about ways to increase the number of invitations to church that members give to their network of friends.Review these posts to get on board with some of the answersMore church invitations: Friends and Family Get More Church Invitations: Prayer I want you to come to my church Get More … [Read more...]
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