4 Areas of Prayer for 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 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.
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 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 …
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
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.
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 …
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 …
How to keep church visitors coming back after Christmas
Most churches experience an influx of church visitors at Christmas time. Churches have special activities that are geared at increasing the number of personal invitations that members give. While your attendance may swell at Christmas time, the critical question is
3 Quick Fixes to Your Church Greeter Ministry
New to leading your church greeter team? Looking for new ideas to improve the existing greeter ministry in your church?
If your church greeters are showing up late, not fulfilling their roles, or seem to be apathetic in their hello,
try these quick tips to jump-start your church greeter training
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 …
How to Personally Recruit New Church Greeters
Recruiting church greeters isn’t about filling a schedule—it’s about finding people who naturally express warmth and welcome. This excerpt from Church Greeters 101 offers practical coaching on identifying potential volunteers, inviting them into ministry, and helping them grow in confidence as they serve your guests.
Book Review: Serving as a Church Greeter Les Parrott
The church greeter surveys that I’ve been conducting on greeter training material reveal that there is a tremendous lack of easily available information on recruiting and training church greeters as of 2009 when I write this article. I’ve read a series of books on the issue, and agree with that observation. UPDATE: I wrote my …
Make it easy to Build Relational Connections
As the author, I get to hear various reasons why people buy my book on church hospitality, How to Welcome Church Visitors. Why are church hospitality committees (Read: What do Church Hospitality Committees do?) looking to improve their hospitality ministry in their church by buying my book? Fear that a visitor to their church will come …
New Video: How to Organize Church Greeter Teams
New training video posted How to Organize Your Church Greeter Teams. Get your free video at
10 Tips for Church Greeters
Greeting visitors at church is such an important part of the hospitality ministry of the church. Church Greeters are part of the ministry team and form part of the first impression that a visitor receives. Here are 10 tips for greeters.