This week, I had a hospitality coaching call. The client was in charge of starting a hospitality and welcome ministry in a startup storefront church. Under 20 people attend on a Sunday at the moment. How can an extra small church give a good welcome? It’s a challenge when the extra small church still has …
Danny Franks, Connections Pastor at The Summit Church in North Carolina, considers the importance of preparing for guests who are visiting your church. Your sermon starts in the parking lot and he offers 5 principles to effective church hospitality and first impressions.
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 …
Your Christmas Eve church hospitality can make a big difference in a visitor’s decision to come back. Your Christmas Eve Outreach is a wonderful opportunity to invite first time church visitors! Your members can invite their friends as well as strangers they meet out in public. Visitors come through your doors. Some will be out of …
