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7 Ways to Prepare Your Church for Mothers Day

April 17, 2022 by EvangelismCoach

As you plan for this year's celebration of Mother's Day at your church, here are 7 things you can do to prepare your church beforehand.

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10 Things Every First Time Church Greeter Should Know

August 5, 2021 by EvangelismCoach

If you are a new church greeter, check out these ten quick tips to help you serve well that first day.

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6 Goals of a Church Greeter

May 10, 2018 by EvangelismCoach

Every Sunday, I see commentary on Twitter about the joys at serving as a church greeter, complaints about experiences with rude church greeters, sarcasm aimed at unprepared greeters at church, and nervous greeters announcing how nervous they are. But if you can help your new church greeters know what to aim for, it might help them to rise to the occasion.

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Things to say to church visitors

Different Greetings to Welcome Church Visitors

April 18, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

I asked some peers in some of my networking groups: Is there something more Church greeters can say than “Good morning?” What are some of your suggestions? Please comment on site and join the discussion. This was a response to a prior article: What do you say greeting church visitors?

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Video Discussion Starter for Church Greeters

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

Videos can make for great discussion starters at your gatherings for hospitality workers or church greeters. Use as a discussion starter for your next church greeter training or hospitality training meeting. I enjoyed the humor and the painfully true characterizations.

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How to Prepare the Welcome Greeting for Your Church

November 29, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Take the time prepare your welcome greetings for your church visitors.

Make your church welcome greeting sound normal and personal with these 5 tips to shape your preparation.

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Memo to Church Greeter: Don’t hug a guest!

July 6, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

How a church greeter left a wrong first impression on our family as we visited a local church for the second and third time. I felt myself making a mental note to not use that entry door. Yet, we continue to push through this and explore if this is a church we are called to serve in this stage of life.

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Church Greeters could use this tip as soon as this Sunday at church. Read on and share

Church Greeter Tips: Show Respect for your Guests

May 17, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Several months ago, a church greeter kissed my wife. Other church greeters failed to make eye contact. We startled a church greeter by asking her a simple question “Where is the middle school Sunday school class meeting?” She didn’t know the answer and we created an awkward moment.

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Church Pews are Empty

Ask EvangelismCoach: That leader keeps the sanctuary empty!

August 11, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

I know first hand the uncomfortable awkwardness when church visitors show up 10 minutes early to get a seat and the sanctuary is empty except for a few musicians finishing a review rehearsal, and church members arriving up to 30 minutes late. Recently, a reader submitted a question via Ask EvangelismCoach, concerning a Sunday School …

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20 Church Hospitality Goofs and How You Can Avoid Them

June 6, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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We will not forget THAT church greeter

December 22, 2014 by EvangelismCoach

It was our third visit to a local church in the last 102 weeks. We love visiting that church when we are in that city.  In fact, whenever we go, we try to invite a friend to that church. Even through we have not ever experienced followup from filling out their visitor contact card, we …

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5 Church Hospitality Lessons from the Honda Classic

March 7, 2014 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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10 Free Church Greeter Training Videos

10 Free Church Greeter Training Videos

May 13, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

I’ve updated the free church greeter training videos for 2014. Some of the videos I first recorded in 2009 now look awful by today’s standards.

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Top 21 Posts on Church Greeter Ministry

December 24, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

Here are some of the top articles on church greeters and church greeter training. Some of these articles poke fun at the silly things greeters say and do. Others provide training tips, church greeting tips and more. Dig around and learn.

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Church Greeter Case Study: An Unexpected Visitor

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

How can you prepare your church greeters for an unexpected visitor with a therapeautic dog? Rev. Susan and I talk about an experience of the unexpected that occurred during a church visit. She took a therapeutic dog to church and experienced different kinds of reactions to the presence of a dog. From the pastor From …

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The Best of EvangelismCoach: 2013 Edition

July 7, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

Looking back over the past year, some particular blog posts rose to the top for 2013. Please consider sharing this post, or some of these with other believers in your network. In this post you’ll see some of the most popular posts of 2013 in Personal Evangelism Church Greeters First Impressions EvangelismCoach Products

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See you Next Week

Hospitality Ministry Book Review: See You Next Week

March 2, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Church Greeter Prayer for Positive Attitude

October 11, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

Some days, your church greeter volunteer will wake up in the morning with a not so helpful attitude. Check out these tweets:

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Smelly Church Greeters

Your Turn: So Your Church Greeter Stinks!

August 11, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

I received a good question via email the other day.  (Ask your question here).  If you have a suggestion to help our reader, please add it to the comments below. How do I approach an usher who smokes and it smells on her? I am not the President of the usher board but would like …

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Signs of a Church Visitor

When Church Greeters Object: I don’t know who the visitors are

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

If you are involved in recruiting and training of church greeters, you will likely run into a church greeter who says But I don’t know who the first time visitors are!!!! They may use that to avoid answering your call to recruit them for a given Sunday or for a given rotation on your schedule. …

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Without holiness no one sees the Lord

A Church Greeter Prayer for Holiness

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

A holy life will make the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns, they just shine. “It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. We are told to let our light shine, and if it does we won’t need to tell anybody it does. The light will be …

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Prayer for Church Greeters – Kindness

December 5, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

A Scripture filled prayer for church greeters as part of their preparation for ministry at church

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Resouce List for Church Greeters

Church Greeter Resources

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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Chris Walker's Church Greeters 101 now available in print

What is inside Church Greeters 101?

August 12, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

Church greeter ministry is a vital part of welcoming visitors to your church. Sadly, this aspecct of welcome ministry gets neglected, overlooked, or relegated to auto-pilot, ending up with church leaders begging for unmotivated volunteers who fill a space. Introducing Chuch Greeters 101 Church Greeters 101 leads you forward in starting or relaunching the greeter …

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