Church Visit Story

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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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