Pastors can refresh their church’s vision for hospitality in less than five minutes. Learn how short reminders and sermon moments can reawaken your congregation to welcome guests with warmth and purpose—and discover new ways to strengthen your church hospitality team.
The ministry of church ushers supports the entire hospitality system of your church. From greeting guests to managing the worship flow, ushers help people experience a meaningful encounter with God. Explore their biblical foundation, duties, and training ideas to strengthen your usher ministry.
The gospel should be offensive, not your church members or a lackadaisical hospitality ministry.
Your hospitality ministry in the church is one of the most important factors in the experience of first time visitors that will influence their personal decision to come back to your church.
Our family attends a growing church. I see 6 things in the attitudes of church leadership that I'm convinced help it grow. Do these 6 ingredients show up in your church?
5 Lessons I learned about church planting from planting new churches during my ministry career.
Should we invite non-believers to our church services? So far through the three parts of rereading the book of Acts (part 1 covers Acts 1-5, part 2 covers Acts 6-9, part 3 covers Acts 10-11), I don’t see a clear answer to the question. As I have looked at the gatherings of the disciples so …
Recently, I was asked via Ask EvangelismCoach about ways to increase the number of invitations to church that members give to their network of friends. Review these posts to get on board with some of the answers More church invitations: Friends and Family Get More Church Invitations: Prayer I want you to come to my …
A lifeway study also asked how many times respondents have personally, “invited an unchurched person to attend a church service or some other program at your church?” Nearly half (48 percent) of church attendees responded, “zero.” We need to change this. Download this video at BeamerFilms.com. Use this mini-move to help encourage your congregation to …
It might seem obvious. Relevant and helpful sermons can increase the number of church invites your members might give. If your church members think "My friend needs to hear this" you will increase those invitations.
Helping church members invite their friends is one of the side effects of an engaged church, as Albert Winesman wrote Growing an Engaged Church. The basic question of his book is addressed on the jacket: What would a church look like if members of its congregation were 13 times more likely to have invited someone to …
Recently, I’ve been asked via Ask EvangelismCoach about ways to increase the number of invitations to church that members give to their network of friends. Review these posts to get on board with some of the answers More church invitations: Friends and Family Get More Church Invitations: Prayer Today, I add number 3 3. Church …
LifeWay Research did a study and asked how many times they have personally, “invited an unchurched person to attend a church service or some other program at your church?” 48% of church attendees responded, “zero.” 33% percent of people say they’ve personally invited someone one or two times. 19% say they’ve done so on three or more …
During a recent coaching appointment, a pastor in a small country church in the United States expressed frustration that church members are not inviting guests to church.
The church had reached a plateau in attendance and had been stuck there for nearly 2 years.
A regular question I get is "How do you grow a small church?" "How do I grow small church numbers?" We were a small church, made up primarily of immigrants from other countries. Here are 5 steps we are implementing to grow that total number to 70.
A church on invited me out last weekend to prepare their team to go door to door. I thought I was invited to give my workshop on personal evangelism. Because of some miscommunication, I didn’t realize that this was my expected purpose until it was too late. The organizer mentioned that 53 people were attending …
Thom Rainer surveyed adults who became church going believers. Through interviews with the formerly unchurched, he discovered some top reasons why they would choose their church.
Puzzled why your church visitors don’t come back? How do you create a vision for radical church hospitality that is beyond the pastor and church hospitality committee? How can you develop a passion within the congregation for welcoming first time visitors? Maybe your members talk to each other and ignore the first time visitor. Maybe …
Easter is rapidly approaching and many of you are gearing up for your Easter Outreaches and special Easter Services Let me give you a three pointers to increase your congregation’s impact this Easter. 1. Do a hospitality review. Give your systems a look over to make sure they are up. Read more: Church Hospitality Review …
Ron Crandall’s research on small church growth revealed 15 effective ways to increase the number of first-time church visitors. His study explored what specific actions pastors and leaders could take to help their congregations grow through intentional outreach and genuine hospitality.
This week and next, you’ll be reading about small church transformation, particularly the role of evangelism, based on a study of small churches first done in 1995 and then updated in December of 2008. These first few posts setup some of the background and are meant to be in small blog-size portions for easy consumption. …
