4 Ways to Pray for Your Church’s Hospitality Ministry
Four areas for leadership teams to pray for your church hospitality work of the ministry.
You can easily spend 30 minutes a week in prayer as part of improving your welcome ministry.
How to Give Constructive Feedback to Your Church Greeters
One of the hard 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.
Memo to Church Greeter: Don’t hug a guest!
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.
Mothers Day Church Greetings that Honor All Mothers
Mothers Day can create awkwardness at church? How would you honor all mothers without that awkwardness?
Church Greeter Tips: Show Respect for your Guests
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.
10 Free Church Greeter Training Videos
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.
Top 21 Posts on Church Greeter Ministry
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.
Church Greeter Case Study: An Unexpected Visitor
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 …
Church Greeter Prayer for Positive Attitude
Some days, your church greeter volunteer will wake up in the morning with a not so helpful attitude. Check out these tweets:
3 Tips for Church Hospitality Etiquette
This short comical video gave me a good laugh today. You might use it for an upcoming hospitality training on what not to do. Do you lead your greeter ministry? I’ve written a book for leaders of church greeter ministry. Click on these links to read more (at Amazon). Church Greeters 101 in Paperback Church …
Your Turn: So Your Church Greeter Stinks!
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 …
When Church Greeters Object: I don’t know who the visitors are
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 Church Greeter Prayer for Holiness
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 …
What is inside Church Greeters 101?
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 …
Your Turn: Help a Shy Church Greeter
You have a shy person who has volunteered to be a church greeter. . . what are some ways to help this person give the best welcome to your church visitors? Shy people can be introverts, or extroverts in a new situation where they simply hang back to watch and wait. Some have a surge …
A Church Greeter Recruiting Conversation
One task of any church greeter organizer is to recruit new greeters. I found the following fictional conversation: Church Greeters… Pastor: “Hey, we need someone for the ‘front lines’ of Sunday church services. Would you be willing to greet people at the door?” You: “Umm. Sure! I like people and I’m willing to stand there and say …
Church Greeter Training Collection on DVD
You know that church greeters can be a great asset to your hospitality ministry. But one thing I encounter frequently from my readers is: Is there a Greeter Training DVD I can show? A Church Greeter Training DVD is now available Yes. Purchase this set of DVDs. Use them for greeter training. Or if you are the …
Need More Hospitality Ministry Volunteers?
Here is a common email I receive (composed from various ones): I’m having a hard time finding volunteers who believe in the ministry of hospitality. They think everyone should be doing this automatically. Our church doesn’t have enough people who are interested in being greeters. We can’t get any volunteers. . We’ve not ever organized our …
Expecting Church Visitors at Christmas? 5 areas to spruce up
Are you prepared for to receive new church visitors at Christmas time? I want to give you 5 areas to consider improving your church welcome for your first time visitors when the come this Christmas Season.
How to keep church visitors coming back after Christmas
Most churches experience an influx of church visitors at Christmas time. Some are out of town guests. Other church visitors seek out the Christmas traditions of their youth. Others are awakening to their spiritual thirst. Churches have special activities that are geared at increasing the number of personal invitations that members give. While your attendance …
Christmas Eve Church Hospitality Failure: A True Story
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 …
25 Factors That Shape Visitor Perceptions About Church
Today’s Guest Article is from Steve Fogg: Clear and Simple. He is a blogger from Australia, focused on communications and PR for churches. I first found Steve through a Blog Carnival on OurChurch.com While I’m away on vacation, there will be a few guests posts this week. This list is an awesome compilation of factors …
Webinar: Training Church Greeters Resources
Tonight I was asked by a guy in our church to be a “Greeter” which means I’d shake people’s hands as they come in. (Twitter user) Being a greeter is much more than shaking hands as people walk in the door of your church during worship services. So many churches simply recruit warm bodies to …
How to Personally Recruit New Church Greeters
Note: What follows is a sample chapter from the book, “Church Greeters 101.” Here is what one reviewer has already said: I’ve been looking for a resource to help guide me as I work to rebuild our greeter ministry. Church Greeters 101 hits the spot! What I really found helpful was the practical action steps …