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
A pastor friend of mine was released from his leadership as pastor. Some might say he was fired. Other’s would say, “it wasn’t a fit.” The conflict was just too great. The reason for the conflict The pastor was bringing too many new people into the church. Too many new believers. Too many new disciples …
As Easter is not too far away, what are you doing to help your church visitors and invited guests to come back the following week? The following article is from a friend of this ministry, Gary Rohrmayer, who writes at YourJourneyBlog. Read on for what Gary shares. To read the development of each of the subpoints, visit …
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 …
No church wants to give a their first time visitor or returning guest a bad experience. I have not run into a church that wants to create a bad experience for its guests. When visitors have a bad experience with your church, often your error is something unintentional. No church wants to be rude. No …
Our family experienced a temporary life transition that involved us moving to another state in the US for a period of four months. We left our work, our church that we are planting, our friends and support networks. During this temporary time, we chose a local church in the community we lived in. We chose …
Consider these small talk questions as icebreakers your church greeters, ushers or volunteers could use to open the doors to a potentially deeper conversation and connection with your first-time church visitor.
One reader put a challenge to me about whether or not a greeter ministry was appropriate in a church. Why have church greeters? Since I teach and train on good hospitality practices such as greeter ministry and other church growth issues, it’s a question that I’ve been pushed to re-look at. In chapter 1 of …
Churches form new church hospitality committees or relaunch a tired committee with new people.
They want to update or infuse their church hospitality program with new ideas.
In 2012, our family was once again out of town for Christmas, visiting family. For the last 5 years, we have not had a Christmas Eve service in our own church, but near where my parents reside. We’ve had a few rough first time Christmas Eve church visits, but this year was different. Through a …
What does a church hospitality committee do?
If you are just getting started, check out these areas of work or influence plus a few starting steps.
In the summer of 2012, I played the mystery visitor at the request of the pastor of a church not to far from where we were living. I stepped into two awkward moments. He gave me liberty to pick any Sunday I chose. Furthermore, I was not to let anyone know of my visit ahead …
Our family has experienced a temporary life transition that had us move to another state in the US for a period of four months, away from our church, away from our social networks, and away from our friends. Four months not enough time to visit many churches to look for a church home. to build …
Recently, I was asked the following question via Ask The EvangelismCoach. I’ve posted this to the community Facebook Page, but wanted to give you all a chance to help pitch in. I hope to do this on a more regular basis. Ask EvangelismCoach Question from Ed: “How do we greet late comers? Do we need …
Sometimes, we simply grow blind to the obvious. Junk gathers in rooms. Church Bulletins from prior weeks are left laying around. Lost and found items keep gathering in a corner. Bulletin boards get out of date. Toilet handles need jiggling. Window sills accumulate dust. In churches, we simply get used to the way things are. …
You’ve worked hard to attract visitors to your church. You passionately desire to reach these newcomers for Christ. You know that Jesus can make a difference in their life. Perhaps you’ve spent money on advertising like a direct mail campaign or business cards members give away. You’ve designed sermon series to hopefully entice a second …
I received this testimonial from a pastor who attended the workshop where I recorded “Break the Unseen Barriers.” I enjoyed getting to know Joe during this brief event. As a pastor in my very first month at a new church, I was almost too busy to attend. I wasn’t even sure what we were doing …
Many churches have special events with the idea of “invite a friend” or to open up their church to the neighborhood. As a church leader, here is a tip to getting a free or nearly free hospitality assessment.
The other day, I saw a question in my Twitter feed: How do we measure our hospitality? There are a couple of different ways to measure the success of your hospitality ministry. You could measure effective church hospitality program by Volunteers who are excited to serve because of they see impact or influence they have. …
You’ve worked so hard to attract church visitors. . . . . You passionately desire to reach these newcomers for Christ. You know that Jesus can make a difference in their life. Perhaps you’ve spent money on advertising like a direct mail campaign or business cards members give away. You’ve designed sermon series to hopefully …
Over at http://www.ChurchHospitalityTraining.com, I’ve released video Number 3. In today’s video, I address one of the biggest barriers that churches put up to visitors who do come back for several weeks in a row. I once attended a local fellowship for nearly 6 months and still had no friends. It was a fellowship with about 100 …
A big hospitality barrier for many churches is a malfunctioning greeter ministry. Greeters don’t show up on time, do a half-baked job, rarely make eye contact, and seem don’t they don’t really care. I saw this on my twitter feed not too long ago: Church Greeters who scowl when they are told good morning really …
Earlier this year, a church hospitality committee leader called me up to have chat about how to restart their hospitality ministries. Perhaps you have the same challenge they had: People come for the first time, but they don’t come back. What can we do to fix that? This church began looking for solutions by evaluating …
The Institute For American Church Growth asked over 10,000 people this question: “What was responsible for your coming to Christ and this church?” Their replies were: I had a special need – 3% I just walked in – 3% I liked the minister – 6% I visited there – 1% I liked the Bible classes – …
Are you prepared for to receive new church visitors at Christmas time? I want to give you 5 areas to consider improving your church welcome for your first time visitors when the come this Christmas Season.
