10 Things Every First Time Church Greeter Should Know
If you are a new church greeter, check out these ten quick tips to help you serve well that first day.
Are you involved in training church greeters?
Are you the head of the Greeter Ministry?
Then this collection of articles will help you with church greeter training.
Evangelismcoach Resources:
- Church Greeters 101 in Paperback/Kindle Order your copy from Amazon
- Church Greeters Training Video CollectionStream, Download, or DVD
How to Give Constructive Feedback to Your Church Greeters
One of the hard roles of a church hospitality ministry leader is to correct behavior that can have long reaching negative consequences.
Let me give you a few tips I've used to provide feedback to church greeters and correction to careless mistakes by hospitality ministry volunteers.
6 Goals of a Church Greeter
Every Sunday, I see commentary on Twitter about the joys at serving as a church greeter, complaints about experiences with rude church greeters, sarcasm aimed at unprepared greeters at church, and nervous greeters announcing how nervous they are. But if you can help your new church greeters know what to aim for, it might help them to rise to the occasion.
Different Greetings to Welcome Church Visitors
I asked some peers in some of my networking groups: Is there something more Church greeters can say than “Good morning?” What are some of your suggestions? Please comment on site and join the discussion. This was a response to a prior article: What do you say greeting church visitors?
Video Discussion Starter for Church Greeters
Videos can make for great discussion starters at your gatherings for hospitality workers or church greeters. Use as a discussion starter for your next church greeter training or hospitality training meeting. I enjoyed the humor and the painfully true characterizations.
Memo to Church Greeter: Don’t hug a guest!
How a church greeter left a wrong first impression on our family as we visited a local church for the second and third time. I felt myself making a mental note to not use that entry door. Yet, we continue to push through this and explore if this is a church we are called to serve in this stage of life.
Church Greeter Tips: Show Respect for your Guests
Several months ago, a church greeter kissed my wife. Other church greeters failed to make eye contact. We startled a church greeter by asking her a simple question “Where is the middle school Sunday school class meeting?” She didn’t know the answer and we created an awkward moment.
We will not forget THAT church greeter
It was our third visit to a local church in the last 102 weeks. We love visiting that church when we are in that city. In fact, whenever we go, we try to invite a friend to that church. Even through we have not ever experienced followup from filling out their visitor contact card, we …
10 Free Church Greeter Training Videos
I’ve updated the free church greeter training videos for 2014. Some of the videos I first recorded in 2009 now look awful by today’s standards.
Top 21 Posts on Church Greeter Ministry
Here are some of the top articles on church greeters and church greeter training. Some of these articles poke fun at the silly things greeters say and do. Others provide training tips, church greeting tips and more. Dig around and learn.
Church Greeter Case Study: An Unexpected Visitor
How can you prepare your church greeters for an unexpected visitor with a therapeautic dog? Rev. Susan and I talk about an experience of the unexpected that occurred during a church visit. She took a therapeutic dog to church and experienced different kinds of reactions to the presence of a dog. From the pastor From …
Church Greeter Prayer for Positive Attitude
Some days, your church greeter volunteer will wake up in the morning with a not so helpful attitude. Check out these tweets:
Your Turn: So Your Church Greeter Stinks!
I received a good question via email the other day. (Ask your question here). If you have a suggestion to help our reader, please add it to the comments below. How do I approach an usher who smokes and it smells on her? I am not the President of the usher board but would like …
When Church Greeters Object: I don’t know who the visitors are
If you are involved in recruiting and training of church greeters, you will likely run into a church greeter who says But I don’t know who the first time visitors are!!!! They may use that to avoid answering your call to recruit them for a given Sunday or for a given rotation on your schedule. …
A Church Greeter Prayer for Holiness
A holy life will make the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns, they just shine. “It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. We are told to let our light shine, and if it does we won’t need to tell anybody it does. The light will be …
Prayer for Church Greeters – Kindness
A Scripture filled prayer for church greeters as part of their preparation for ministry at church
Church Greeter Resources
Over 6 years of teaching on church greeters, I’ve assembled many church greeter resources of my own. Here is a quick list of how to get it all and where to find it.
2 Church Greeter Training Videos Now for Download
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 that I can purchase? They are now available in a single boxed set here (USA Only). Or available for digital download (world wide).
What is inside Church Greeters 101?
Church greeter ministry is a vital part of welcoming visitors to your church. Sadly, this aspecct of welcome ministry gets neglected, overlooked, or relegated to auto-pilot, ending up with church leaders begging for unmotivated volunteers who fill a space. Introducing Chuch Greeters 101 Church Greeters 101 leads you forward in starting or relaunching the greeter …
Your Turn: Help a Shy Church Greeter
You have a shy person who has volunteered to be a church greeter. . . what are some ways to help this person give the best welcome to your church visitors? Shy people can be introverts, or extroverts in a new situation where they simply hang back to watch and wait. Some have a surge …
3 Barriers to Recruiting Church Greeters
I would love for you to have success in church greeter recruiting and for you to have more volunteers for church greeters ministry than spaces you could fill. However, I’m not sure there are churches where people fight to be volunteer church greeters. If you find yourself struggling to recruit volunteers for your greeting ministry, …
Church Greeters 101 Available Now in Kindle and Paperback
EvangelismCoach.org announces the release of Church Greeters 101 in both paperback and kindle formats. Author Chris Walker has wanted to help churches: improve their hospitality ministries improve their welcome of guests and members make sure their hospitality ministry is NOT the reason visitors come back see growth because their awesome welcome ministries help visitors decide …
Church Greeters 101 Book Available for Kindle
Beginning June 3, 2013, Church Greeters 101 is available exclusively for the Kindle Format via Amazon. [update June 7, 2013: Also now available in paperback, see links below.] The church greeter ministry is a vital part of welcoming visitors to your church. Sadly, this ministry gets neglected, overlooked, or relegated to auto-pilot, ending up with …
A Church Greeter Recruiting Conversation
One task of any church greeter organizer is to recruit new greeters. I found the following fictional conversation: Church Greeters… Pastor: “Hey, we need someone for the ‘front lines’ of Sunday church services. Would you be willing to greet people at the door?” You: “Umm. Sure! I like people and I’m willing to stand there and say …