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7 Ways to Prepare Your Church for Mothers Day

April 17, 2022 by EvangelismCoach

As you plan for this year's celebration of Mother's Day at your church, here are 7 things you can do to prepare your church beforehand.

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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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Church Hospitality Survey Assessment or Audit

July 27, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

The gospel should be offensive, not your church members or a lackadaisical hospitality ministry.

Your hospitality ministry in the church is one of the most important factors in the experience of first time visitors that will influence their personal decision to come back to your church.

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How do some large churches identify their first time visitors

Your Turn: How to Identify Church Visitors in a Large Church

July 11, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Five body language observations that can help your church greeters detect first-time church visitors

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Connecting to a Church

Help Church Visitors Make Connections

April 18, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

God sovereignly brings visitors to your church. But once people are first welcomed into your church during their first visit, what happens when the service is over? How do you help your church visitor connect?

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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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6 Goals of a Church Greeter

May 10, 2018 by EvangelismCoach

Every Sunday, I see commentary on Twitter about the joys at serving as a church greeter, complaints about experiences with rude church greeters, sarcasm aimed at unprepared greeters at church, and nervous greeters announcing how nervous they are. But if you can help your new church greeters know what to aim for, it might help them to rise to the occasion.

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2 Church Website Pages to Help First Time Visitors

November 7, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Two important church website pages that could answer questions in the minds of visitors.

One is particular to this large urban church with limited parking.

The other is for every church.

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Video Discussion Starter for Church Greeters

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

Videos can make for great discussion starters at your gatherings for hospitality workers or church greeters. Use as a discussion starter for your next church greeter training or hospitality training meeting. I enjoyed the humor and the painfully true characterizations.

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What Spurgeon Thought Was Sufficient to Grow Your Church

October 19, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

Many churches have bought into church growth technique as if hospitality technique will reinvigorate a church in transition. They search for techniques: Visitor retention rates, the "right thing to say" to church visitors: or the best church visitor assimilation process. But the right technique doesn't grow your church. Charles Spurgeon shared some thoughts on this:

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How to Prepare the Welcome Greeting for Your Church

November 29, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Take the time prepare your welcome greetings for your church visitors.

Make your church welcome greeting sound normal and personal with these 5 tips to shape your preparation.

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Six hints for welcoming visitors to your church

May 20, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Many church members, pastors and greeters have forgotten what it is like to be a church visitor. Here is a quick list of 6 hints to improve your welcome

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A small Church can still give a great welcome.

How to Give An Extra Large Welcome in an Extra Small Church

April 21, 2022 by EvangelismCoach

How can the extra-small church give a good welcome?

It can be done. We were welcomed into a small church of under 40 people and stayed in spite of their obvious shortcomings - why?

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8 Lessons from My Church Shopping Experience

August 10, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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.

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First Time Church Visitor Story

Church Shopping Visit Number 6

January 27, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Confessions of a Church Shopper – Can I make a friend?

November 5, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

We tried for 6 weeks to make friends at a church we thought we'd become a part of. Yet we could never seem to find how the way in.

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Church Small Talk from Church Visit

Useful Small Talk at the Church Welcome Center

July 6, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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5 Church Hospitality Lessons from the Honda Classic

March 7, 2014 by EvangelismCoach

I’ve never  attended a major golf championship until last week’s Honda Classic I was a first time guest in an environment I had never visited. We were invited guests of a golf fanatic who secured 2 tickets for our family (plus tickets for the 2 reluctant kids were free). I do play golf (about 1 …

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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 Visitor Reception

Why your small church should have a reception after your service

March 15, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Having Church Visitor Reception AFTER a service in a small church can make the difference between a visitor who returns, and one who doesn't.

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The Best of EvangelismCoach: 2013 Edition

July 7, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

Looking back over the past year, some particular blog posts rose to the top for 2013. Please consider sharing this post, or some of these with other believers in your network. In this post you’ll see some of the most popular posts of 2013 in Personal Evangelism Church Greeters First Impressions EvangelismCoach Products

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6 Christmas Strategies to Grow Your Church

April 20, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

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. …

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Video:Your Sermon Starts in the Parking Lot

July 27, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Danny Franks, Connections Pastor at The Summit Church in North Carolina, considers the importance of preparing for guests who are visiting your church.  Your sermon starts in the parking lot and he offers 5 principles to effective church hospitality and first impressions.

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What does Bible Say about Hospitality

What does the Bible say about Hospitality Ministry?

July 27, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

The Bible has a lot to say about Christian Hospitality in general.  Two of the most popular posts on Evangelismcoach.org are lists of Biblical references to hospitality and welcome. I’ve updated these lists to include Scripture Verses and a print feature for you to print out what might the Bible say about Hospitality Ministry. If …

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