What does it take to lead a volunteer ministry team in the area of church hospitality?
What makes for a great leader of a church hospitality team?
Or, what makes a great leader of the church greeter team?
Are you a new leader in your church’s hospitality or welcome ministry?
This on-demand class will help you get started in preparing for the upcoming season of welcome.
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.
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.
Our family has been the church shopper. We moved to a new city, had no friends in that city, and looked for a church where our family could give our time, talents, and treasure. We wanted a place where we could invest our lives for this new chapter of life. Here are 8 lessons I learned from making several visits over the past year before we found a church home.
We were prepared to be the first time church visitor in our new home town of Port St. Lucie Florida. The church planting team we are a part of has taken a holiday break, so our family was free on a Sunday morning to be that first time visitor and experience once again the challenge of …
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 …
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.
I love answering reader questions. I usually get to answer right away, and sometimes they are such great questions that I want to share them with you all, with permission I thank you so much for giving me ideas on how to improve my hospitality department. I am in a small church and the hospitality …
I’ve been the first time visitor to churches during the Christmas season. I have been the first time visitor to a Christmas Eve service where I didn’t ever want to go back. On the other hand, I visited a church on Christmas Eve and was so impressed I wanted to invite friend the following week. …
My family and I attended a church service in a Christian faith tradition completely different than what we are used to.
We learned 3 important lessons for hospitality committees at churches.
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 …
Churches form new church hospitality committees or relaunch a tired committee with new people.
They want to update or infuse their church hospitality program with new ideas.
Your task is to help your guests feel and experience the love of God by truly welcoming them into God’s house through friendly and authentically gracious service.
Your team might want to consider these as focus areas as you work on your church hospitality program.
What does a church hospitality committee do?
If you are just getting started, check out these areas of work or influence plus a few starting steps.
Many churches have special events with the idea of “invite a friend” or to open up their church to the neighborhood. As a church leader, here is a tip to getting a free or nearly free hospitality assessment.
Over at http://www.ChurchHospitalityTraining.com, I’ve released video Number 3. In today’s video, I address one of the biggest barriers that churches put up to visitors who do come back for several weeks in a row. I once attended a local fellowship for nearly 6 months and still had no friends. It was a fellowship with about 100 …
At the beginning of every year, people make new year’s resolutions. Some want to start growing spiritually and they will check out churches to connect with. Are you prepared for them?
Puzzled why your church visitors don’t come back? How do you create a vision for radical church hospitality that is beyond the pastor and church hospitality committee? How can you develop a passion within the congregation for welcoming first time visitors? Maybe your members talk to each other and ignore the first time visitor. Maybe …
Today is part two of a series on four substitutes for Evangelism. This may sound funny coming from me, because I write so much on this topic (and even sell two ebooks). But as I’ve consulted with churches, I run into this substitute regularly. #2: Church Hospitality Ministry. In many churches, we have substituted evangelism …
Many wise leaders of church hospitality teams know that a regular review of your systems is a good way to make sure things flow smoothly.
Inertia and inefficiency always creep in, and churches are no different.
