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Your church visitor has a list

Your church visitor will have an invisible list in their head that they will use to evaluate your congregation.  As a leader of hospitality and welcome ministry, what can you do about that list?

How can you respond or be prepared?

How I re-discovered the list

Our family has begun once again to visit local churches.  For the last two years, we found a spiritual home in a new church development for Spanish speaking immigrants.  But the tough decision has been made to close.

Thus, we are once again looking for a church, a spiritual home, a place where we can give our life away in the kingdom of God.

As we have had to church shop two times in two years, I discovered that we have a list of what we want in a new church family.

Our list the filter we bring to in our quest to find a church where we will give our life away, where we will give our tithe, find a community of care, and where we will serve with volunteer hours.  We’ve visited the same one for three Sundays now and realize that list is shaping what we experience.

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Confessions of a Church Shopper #7: An Easter 2015 Church Visit

It was Easter Sunday.

We attended a traditional church in a mainline tradition.

It was the traditional service, one of 3 main services on a Sunday morning.  Full robes were worn by the hand bell team and the full choir.  The pastor wore a suit and tie.  We sang the awesome hymns of Easter accompanied by the choir and full organ.

We were an invited guest.

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Church Shopping Visit Number 6

We were prepared to be the first time church visitor in our new home town of Port St. Lucie Florida.

The church planting team we are a part of has taken a holiday break, so our family was free on a Sunday morning to be that first time visitor and experience once again the challenge of being a new mover Christian family looking for a church home.

It is another visit in our series on church shopping.

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Send Your First Time Church Visitor a Followup Letter

Our family was the first time church visitor as a result of moving our home office to the state of Florida.

We visited a few churches around our new little area of Port St. Lucie.

Since we have no church going friends in this city, we are dependent upon advertisements and the internet to find a church.

We share some of first time visitor experiences here, here, here, here, and here. Due to my teaching schedule this fall, I have not made another first time visit.

I have written before about different ways to follow up on church visitors, but want to share with you some current life experiences of followup letters. [Read more…] about Send Your First Time Church Visitor a Followup Letter

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Useful Small Talk at the Church Welcome Center

In our family’s current journey of looking for a church, we empathize anew with Christian families that are new movers and have to find a new church on their own.

I am re-discovering is the value of small talk when engaging your first time visitor.  (Read these 20 Crazy Church Greeter Comments).

Our church visit this past Sunday drew my attention to the value of small talk. [Read more…] about Useful Small Talk at the Church Welcome Center

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Oops! We used the wrong door – A church visit story

We found our way to the church parking lot, in a round about way.

We drove past the one driveway and found the second driveway was roped off.   We drove around the city block to once again approach the one and only OPEN driveway.

As our family makes a trek to the third church in our church shopping campaign, I’m beginning to empathize in a new way with new movers like ourselves searching for a church to become a part of.

Since we have no churched friends in our new town, no one will invite us to their church that they are proud of. [Read more…] about Oops! We used the wrong door – A church visit story

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