One hour with a coach to help your welcome ministry get unstuck and moving forward.
Feeling stuck with your church’s welcome?
Your church wants to be warm and welcoming, but you also see gaps. Maybe greeters feel unsure. Maybe first-time guests slip away. Maybe you stepped into leadership and do not know where to begin.
Examples:
- Does your hospitality ministry feel stuck?
- Are people resisting your leadership because they don’t want to change?
- Are you frustrated that they “just don’t get it?”
- Do you feel there is just too much information out there to know how to begin?
You do not have to figure this out alone. In one focused hour, you will be able to name the issues, clear the clutter, and set yourself some simple, practical next steps you can use right away.
Who This Call Helps:
- Pastors and leaders who want a clear plan for greeters and welcome teams
- New hospitality leaders who need a place to start
- Churches that lost momentum and want to rebuild
- Teams that feel overwhelmed by ideas and need a simple path
Some Topics that have been covered:
Several church leaders and pastors have found breakthrough by allowing me to ask questions about their current hospitality systems. Coaches bring questions to help you uncover what’s underneath the surface so that you can get clarity.
- How to cast a vision for hospitality when no one seems to care.
- How to help your church members see the need for a better welcome.
- How to find and recruit church greeters
- How to take your hospitality ministry forward for growth.
- How to analyze your current system and make incremental improvements.
- How to build a culture of welcome.
What we will do together
During our one hour phone or video call, you’ll be able to:
- Clarify your top hospitality challenge
- Assess what is working and what needs attention
- Outline two or three next steps that fit your church
- Identify quick wins you can implement this month
Get unstuck
Other hospitality ministry leaders broke through that log-jam of inaction and got moving forward again.
A good coaching conversation gets your creativity going and new steps forward towards improving your welcome ministry.
Chris Walker’s coaching ability is wonderful. He’s a clear thinker with a way of cutting through the clutter and confusion surrounding a problem. He focuses on the most practical path to a resolution and effectively communicates how to reach the intended goal.
Les Dahlstedt
St. Matthew Lutheran Church
Another leader wrote:
You’ve given me some great thoughts about what steps I need to take. Taking on organizing this ministry doesn’t seem so overwhelming anymore. The phone call we had helped me discover some practical steps I could immediately take to fire up the ministry in our 400 member church.
J Hampsher
Am I right for you?
If you have a highly effective hospitality ministry, then I am not the right person. I could be learning from you!
If you are looking for a general church consultant who has all the answers to every problem of your church, this is not the right phone call.
I have served churches of many sizes since 2007 as a church hospitality consultant and coach. My focus is practical and targeted. I help you take the next faithful step toward a more welcoming church.
I am an ordained pastor in the ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians, the principal writer for EvangelismCoach.org, and have been certified as a Flourish Coach for ECO by the International Coaching Federation.
I’ve studied evangelism and church growth ever since answering telephones for a Billy Graham crusade in the mid-1980s as a teenager, and have led countless training seminars throughout North and South America in different denominations, in English and Spanish.
How it Works
1) Click the button to purchase your session through our secure store.
2) You will receive an email with your scheduling link right away. I suggest you place it within the next two weeks for your schedule.
3) We meet on a video call or by phone for a 60-minute call focused on your needs.
It’s travel-free training, and much cheaper than having me come in person.
If the call does not give you the clarity you expected, you will receive a full refund of your payment. No hassle. Your trust matters.
Coaching calls are available from 1pm to 9pm Eastern US time. Please allow for one hour, and flexibility in schedules if last-minute changes arise in our schedules.
Questions you might have
Do I need my whole team?
No. You can come alone or invite one or two key leaders.
Can we cover more than one topic?
Yes. We will focus on your top priority and touch related areas if time allows.
What if I need more help?
If you want continued support, we can add a short coaching series after this call.
I don’t want a multi-year commitment that will break your budget
Unlike other church consultants who want you to do expensive multi-year commitments, I want to help you break through now.
One call is usually enough for a creative breakthrough.
One call is usually enough to get your committee moving forward again with fresh ideas to improve your greeter and welcome ministry.
If you decide to upgrade to a package of calls, we’ll push through and finish in the course of a few months.
One Outcome of Church Hospitality Coaching Session
I had the opportunity to visit with some elders of the Deming Presbyterian Church in Northwest Washington State (Acme WA), with about 15-25 people in worship.
Here is what one of the elders had to say [edited for spacing and readability]:
On the evening we and other church elders met with Chris Walker, he was able to provide new insight and confirm existing notions about reaching our community for Christ.
His taking the time to first hear about our church profile and current state of evangelistic activities before offering input was encouraging and helped make the title of Evangelism Coach fitting for Chris. He then proceeded to offer direction that was both appropriate and doable.
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Chris also drove home some great points we all could benefit from :
- Seek the face of God when we pray; we want to follow His will not our program.
- When we meet as a group to seek the will of God, save the brainstorming until after significant time is spent in group prayer.
- Once an inventory of community needs is taken, know that no church can meet them all. Ask the Lord to direct the church to which needs it is called to minister to.
- Do ministry with the stamp of Jesus clearly visible. It needs to be publicly proclaimed that our work is empowered by the love for others that flows from Jesus, through us and into the lives of others.
- Get out! These Post-Christendom times require us to get out of our building and into the community.
The following Sunday morning in our Adult Study time, after inviting our Lord’s leading, we had discussion about our mutual desire for our little church to become more connected to our community.
Next thing we knew we were inspired by an idea . . . . .
To conclude, I would say that Chris is about delivering the truth in a way that emulates how Jesus does it: He turns our attention and hope toward our Father.
Grateful,
Bruce Burke
