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4 Ways to Pray for Your Church’s Hospitality Ministry

November 22, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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How to Give Constructive Feedback to Your Church Greeters

May 24, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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Memo to Church Greeter: Don’t hug a guest!

July 6, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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Ideas to Honor Mothers at Church on Mothers Day

Mothers Day Church Greetings that Honor All Mothers

April 17, 2022 by EvangelismCoach

Mothers Day can create awkwardness at church? How would you honor all mothers without that awkwardness?

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Church Greeters could use this tip as soon as this Sunday at church. Read on and share

Church Greeter Tips: Show Respect for your Guests

May 17, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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10 Free Church Greeter Training Videos

10 Free Church Greeter Training Videos

May 13, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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Top 21 Posts on Church Greeter Ministry

December 24, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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Church Greeter Case Study: An Unexpected Visitor

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Church Greeter Prayer for Positive Attitude

October 11, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

Some days, your church greeter volunteer will wake up in the morning with a not so helpful attitude. Check out these tweets:

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3 Church Hospitality Tips

3 Tips for Church Hospitality Etiquette

September 27, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

Read more3 Tips for Church Hospitality Etiquette
Smelly Church Greeters

Your Turn: So Your Church Greeter Stinks!

August 11, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Signs of a Church Visitor

When Church Greeters Object: I don’t know who the visitors are

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

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. …

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Without holiness no one sees the Lord

A Church Greeter Prayer for Holiness

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Chris Walker's Church Greeters 101 now available in print

What is inside Church Greeters 101?

August 12, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Your Turn: Help a Shy Church Greeter

July 4, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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A Church Greeter Recruiting Conversation

May 24, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Church Greeter Training DVD Set

Church Greeter Training Collection on DVD

March 9, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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How do I find hospitality ministry volunteers for my church?

Need More Hospitality Ministry Volunteers?

July 22, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Church Visitor Welcome Packet

Expecting Church Visitors at Christmas? 5 areas to spruce up

December 17, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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Attracting Christmas Visitors to your church? Some ideas on keeping them.

How to keep church visitors coming back after Christmas

December 17, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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I was the first time visitor at a church that really blundered their Christmas Eve Outreach

Christmas Eve Church Hospitality Failure: A True Story

December 17, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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25 Factors That Shape Visitor Perceptions About Church

April 14, 2015 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Webinar: Training Church Greeters Resources

December 24, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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How to Personally Recruit New Church Greeters

June 28, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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