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?
Every pastor I know wants to grow their church by leading people to Christ.
If that’s you, you’re in good company.
If you’re succeeding at it, you are in rare company.
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.
Healthy churches grow in worship, fellowship, discipleship, and mission engagement in the community.
They also grow through evangelism.
What is your church's evangelism strategy?
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.
A resource compilation of 38 articles related to church hospitality, church greeters and welcome ministry.
In a powerful video, a church goer describes the hospitality experience that made it a no-brainer for her to return.
In our family’s current journey of looking for a church, we empathize anew with Christian families that are new movers and have to find a new church on their own. I am re-discovering is the value of small talk when engaging your first time visitor. (Read these 20 Crazy Church Greeter Comments). Our church visit …
In the summer of 2014, our family moved to central Florida due to an expansion of our ministry’s vision and reach. We are new movers into the community. We have no friends yet. We are a blank slate looking for a church. We are the first time visitor. We are the church shopper. I wrote up …
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 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.
In my first church, we chose October 31 as a safe alternative to Halloween. We planned all sorts of children’s games, candy giveaway, costume contest, and all around fun. We mobilized lots of volunteers to run the games and our small church had a tremendous party every year. Our Harvest Party (we called it) celebrated …
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.
Church Greeters can do a wonderful job but if the congregation fails behind them, their best efforts at welcoming visitors will be undermined by a negative impression.
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.
Top 10 Church Greeter Guidelines plus a link to greeter training DVD Material. To pull off an effective welcome consistently, use church greeter guidelines that you can communicate quickly with your team. Here are 10 quick tips, followed by 10 more in video.
The other day, I saw a question in my Twitter feed: How do we measure our hospitality? There are a couple of different ways to measure the success of your hospitality ministry. You could measure effective church hospitality program by Volunteers who are excited to serve because of they see impact or influence they have. …
At the beginning of every year, people make New Year's resolutions. Some want to start growing spiritually and they will check out churches that might help them grow.
Throughout the year, someone will attend your church for the first time.
Are you prepared for their visit?
Are you ready to receive them and welcome them with the love and message of Jesus Christ?
Wise church leaders will regularly evaluate their church hospitality program. Later this month, I will help two churches evaluate their church hospitality ministry as they prepare to welcome new guests this fall. Summer is perfect time The summer months in the United States are traditionally a slower season of church programming and activities. But, it’s …
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 …
A few years ago I attended a seminar dinner on How to Minister to Visitors at the local church and I learned some great ideas that are worth sharing here. Perhaps these can help you minister to the people God brings to your church through your invitation or through His own sovereign means. 1. Miracles …
