Could the same principles that create a five star hotel be applied to the church and its hospitality? That is the basic structure of the fictional conversation between a pastor and staff and the general manager of a five star hotel, as mapped out in the book The Five Star Church: Serving God and His …
During a recent church visitor assimilation webinar (available now for purchase), we discussed some excellent resources on the assimilation process. One participant recommended a short book on hospitality ministry that was helpful to them. See You Next Week is a short text crammed full of ideas that could help your church get started in improving …
No church wants to give a their first time visitor or returning guest a bad experience. I have not run into a church that wants to create a bad experience for its guests. When visitors have a bad experience with your church, often your error is something unintentional. No church wants to be rude. No …
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 …
You want real life steps for church hospitality that you can implement this very weekend. Print it out, highlight it, mark it up, and give it to your church hospitality teams.
In response to a recent phone conversation about church greeter training, I compiled a list of books on church hospitality. The first two are mine, the rest are available from Amazon. How to Welcome Church Visitors, instantly downloadable. My first book on Creating better first impressions. Church Greeters 101, instantly downloadable. Takes the small chapter …
