If you’ve been asked to lead a greeter meeting, it can feel overwhelming. These ten steps will help you prepare a greeter training meeting that encourages your volunteers, builds teamwork, and refreshes your church’s vision for hospitality.
Churches of all size know the importance of your greeter volunteers. This might include the ushers, parking hosts, and connection center teams.
If you are a new church greeter, check out these ten quick tips to help you serve well your first day.
Your church visitor will have an invisible list in their head that they will use to evaluate your congregation. As a leader of hospitality and welcome ministry, what can you do about that list?
One of the harder roles of a church hospitality ministry leader is to correct behavior that can have long reaching negative consequences.
Let me give you a few tips I've used to provide feedback to church greeters and correction to careless mistakes by hospitality ministry volunteers.
How often have you sat (or slept) through slide presentations that were a forgettable confusion? Or how about unreadable slides? This past Sunday, we visited a church that crammed so many words on one slide that we couldn’t read any of it, and we were on the 3rd row.
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.
Church greeters should not accidentally violate A person's sense of personal space.
Encourage your church greeters to set aside their personal preferences (e.g., "I'm a hugger") for a normal greeting that is customary and culturally appropriate to where your church is located
Some days, your church greeter volunteer will wake up in the morning with a not so helpful attitude. Check out these tweets:
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 …
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. …
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 …
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.
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 …
Not every church greeter volunteer will be ready to greet your visitors.
I often get asked by greeter team leaders how to help a shy church greeter get started.
Here are 3 tips for church greeter coordinators that may help.
Do your new church greeter volunteers need training? What about those who have been serving 20 years?
Let me challenge you to rethink your answer.
