It was a beautiful Sunday morning. The sun was bright, not a cloud in the sky, and our family makes a Sunday visit to a local church for the second time.
But a church greeter changed my attitude with an attempt at friendliness that went wrong. [Read more…]
Mother’s Day can be really awkward at church.
Being sensitive not only to to your members, but also your first time visitors, you’ll want to remove as many of those awkward possibilities on Mothers Day.
Out of a noble desire, church leaders desire to honor mothers and celebrate motherhood with announcements, particular prayers focused on mothers day, and even a sermon related to the qualities of an awesome mom.
How will you give a church welcome speech that would honor mothers?
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. [Read more…]
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. [Read more…]
A church greeter I never met invaded my personal space.
An apathetic church greeter gave me a bulletin while talking to a friend.
A church greeter wore so much cologne that my eyes watered when standing in his presence. [Read more…]
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.
Technology has improved.
I’ve added new ones as well.
By signing up specifically for this list, I’ll send you 10 videos for training church greeters.
They are free and will come to you by email every 3 days for the next 30 days. [Read more…]
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.
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.
Watch this church greeter video case study and then add your comments to the field below.
Listen particularly to Susan’s point around the 4 minute mark about small talk for Church Greeters
How can you prepare your church greeters for a situation like this?
In the comments below, how can you prepare your church greeters for surprise situations?
Share with us your thoughts.
If you lead your church greeter ministry, you’ll want to acquire this for your own inspiration or training:
Some days, your church greeter volunteer will wake up in the morning with a not so helpful attitude. Check out these tweets:
This short comical video gave me a good laugh today.
You might use it for an upcoming hospitality training on what not to do.
I’ve written a book for leaders of church greeter ministry. Click on these links to read more (at Amazon).
You can get the 2 DVD Combo Set of Greeter Training DVDs from the store
Also, see this tutorial on fixing your greeter ministry.
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