Next to personal evangelism, Church Hospitality is arguably one of the most important ministries of the local church. So many churches fail in this ministry of kindness. I’ve collected nearly 100 of these articles in a download resource for sale. Visit How To Welcome Church Visitors for information about this ebook
One consistent question on church hospitality processes that I receive is how to follow up on your first time church visitors. Questions like: Another question I’ve received is related to the data management side of handling visitor contact information. How can church management software help our visitors become new members? Today’s guest post answers that …
You know that churches make all sorts of hospitality mistakes. You’ve probably experienced a few church hospitality errors first hand. Over the last few months, I’ve compiled this list of 20 complaints shared on Twitter. Read them and cringe.
I love answering reader questions. I usually get to answer right away, and sometimes they are such great questions that I want to share them with you all, with permission I thank you so much for giving me ideas on how to improve my hospitality department. I am in a small church and the hospitality …
I’ve never attended a major golf championship until last week’s Honda Classic I was a first time guest in an environment I had never visited. We were invited guests of a golf fanatic who secured 2 tickets for our family (plus tickets for the 2 reluctant kids were free). I do play golf (about 1 …
The Connections Pastor could see that they were stuck. Hospitality ministry workers were apathetic. The leader who oversaw the church greeters saw no point in any more training. Even through the church had a visitor connection card, church greeters, Church Visitor Welcome Packets, excellent and polite church ushers and a welcome center, the Connections Pastor knew it …
Having Church Visitor Reception AFTER a service in a small church can make the difference between a visitor who returns, and one who doesn't.
During a recent church visitor assimilation webinar (available now for purchase), we discussed some excellent resources on the assimilation process. One participant recommended a short book on hospitality ministry that was helpful to them. See You Next Week is a short text crammed full of ideas that could help your church get started in improving …
Helping your church visitor become a regular attender is not rocket science. Church visitor assimilation is ultimately a matter of personal relationships and connections. But there are plenty of good strategies that churches have tried to help those connecting relationships form naturally. If you want to do some good reading on the subject, here are …
Danny Franks, Connections Pastor at The Summit Church in North Carolina, considers the importance of preparing for guests who are visiting your church. Your sermon starts in the parking lot and he offers 5 principles to effective church hospitality and first impressions.
The Bible has a lot to say about Christian Hospitality in general. Two of the most popular posts on Evangelismcoach.org are lists of Biblical references to hospitality and welcome. I’ve updated these lists to include Scripture Verses and a print feature for you to print out what might the Bible say about Hospitality Ministry. If …
Don’t you wish that you could sometimes learn why a church visitor would choose not to come back after their first visit? There is one way you might learn: ask. But don’t start thinking you need to make a cold call and talk with a stranger who will likely be polite to your face.
This short comical video gave me a good laugh today. You might use it for an upcoming hospitality training on what not to do. Do you lead your greeter ministry? I’ve written a book for leaders of church greeter ministry. Click on these links to read more (at Amazon). Church Greeters 101 in Paperback Church …
Would my own church welcome my friend? Did they get the hospitality vision?
Had we been diligent in casting a vision for welcome and hospitality with our church? Suddenly, this was personal.
Here was MY friend and MY invited guest.
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.
Did you start a new position as the leader of your church welcome committee? Do you find yourself wondering where to start with the over 1000 articles on EvangelismCoach.org? Some volunteers are new to hospitality ministries and have no idea where to start making improvements. Other members are appointed by the pastor to fix the …
Are your first time visitors inviting visitors after their first visit? Is that even possible? Check out this story:
Visiting a church in a different tradition taught us three big lessons about church hospitality. We felt welcome as people, yet lost in the service. Let me coach your hospitality committee through three practical steps I learned.
A first time church visitor has made the steps to finally visit your church. Then comes that potentially awkward moment that some call “the passing of the peace,” that handshake ritual that may have some traditional symbolism that only Christians know. To the church visitor, it can be a weird moment, a time of shaking …
Would your church bathrooms make your mother proud? We all have memories of being told to clean the bathroom before guests came over. Here is a quick checklist for those doing a church facility audit.
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 …
Church Greeters can do a wonderful job but if the congregation fails behind them, their best efforts at welcoming visitors will be undermined by a negative impression.
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, …
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 …
Church hospitality is not evangelism. Your welcome ministry has a supporting role in the work of making disciples, but it is not evangelism.
