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3 Lessons for Hospitality Committees from a church visit

My family and I attended a church service in a Christian faith tradition completely different than what we are used to.  We learned 3 important lessons for hospitality committees at churches

I felt so out of place as we attended and tried to participate in their church service at their personal invitation.

The order of service, communal prayers, and liturgical responses were completely different from anything I had experienced before.
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8 Steps to Relaunching A Church Hospitality Committee

do-over-buttonAt the beginning of each year, many churches form new church hospitality committees or relaunching a tired committee with new people.

They want to update or infuse their church hospitality program with new ideas.

One common question that I get, particularly from smaller churches that have ignored this issue for some time is:

How do we start a church hospitality program?

I already touched lightly on this subject of starting a church hospitality committee, but want to develop it a little more: [Read more…] about 8 Steps to Relaunching A Church Hospitality Committee

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Duties of Church Hospitality Committee or Team

A common question I receive is

What are some duties of the church hospitality team or committee?

I’ve put together a list of potential hospitality duties for your committee.

Your team might want to consider these as focus areas as you work on your church hospitality program.

Larger churches will break these into teams, while smaller churches will find some of these areas are not applicable.

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What does a church hospitality committee do?

Here as 2012 ends and we step into 2013, a common question appearing in my search results deals with

What does the church hospitality committee do?

Define the goal

I’ve spoken with several committees over the last few years in my coaching phone calls about their church hospitality program.

A common thread in these conversations is

Where do we start with our church hospitality program?

You don’t want to re-create the wheel. [Read more…] about What does a church hospitality committee do?

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Evaluate Your Hospitality Program for the Price of a Cup of Coffee

Measure your church hospitality
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Someone had a really bad experience visiting a church – so bad they shared it on twitter.

I blacked out the church name.  The visitor card pictured to the right came across my Evangelismcoach twitter feed this week.

I hope your church doesn’t receive visitor cards like this. [Read more…] about Evaluate Your Hospitality Program for the Price of a Cup of Coffee

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4 ways to pray for your church’s hospitality ministry

praying hands2The problem that many of our churches face is that church visitors do not come back for the second or third time.

Churches need to get the core values of church hospitality:

  • Visitors are a gift from God.
  • We have the privilege of influencing their journey to faith.
  • We can lead them to Christ.
  • We can help them find a place to serve.

But that is if our church

  • welcomes visitors,
  • loves the church visitor,
  • serves the first time church guest, and
  • works at including them in the Body and help them to grow.

We don’t want to make it unnecessarily uncomfortable for our guests.

We don’t want our behavior to make our guests decide not to come back.

They might be offended by the claims of Jesus Christ, but that is different from the unnecessary offense that our members might create against visitors who come for the very first time.

Growing effective hospitality ministry is one way that we can improve our congregation and one way that we might help improve our visitor retention rate.

So let’s pray. [Read more…] about 4 ways to pray for your church’s hospitality ministry

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