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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.
The Connections Pastor could see that they were stuck. Hospitality ministry workers were apathetic. The leader who oversaw the church greeters saw no point in any more training. Even through the church had a visitor connection card, church greeters, Church Visitor Welcome Packets, excellent and polite church ushers and a welcome center, the Connections Pastor knew it …
“I wish more church visitors would come back and get involved.” This is common lament I hear from church leaders. They might be leading small churches. They might be managing large churches. These leaders have put forth valiant efforts to improve their hospitality, increase their marketing, and even provide some programming that would attract new …
Are you starting a church hospitality ministry, or wondering how to start a hospitality ministry in church?
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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 …
I’ve started a new website off shoot of Evangelismcoach.org about training church greeters to improve their greeting church visitors: www.ChurchGreeterTraining.com Visit this site to start a video course of church greeter tips and join in the conversation over there. I’ve also placed 100% Free church greeter training videos for welcoming church visitors. Visit www.ChurchGreeterTraining.com For …
We had a great webinar this afternoon. Registrations from 10 different countries, covering 31 different states and churches from a wide variety of denominations and traditions. Perhaps you’re wondering How to improve your first impressions ministry for first time church visitors What to say to a first time visitor. How to train church greeters. Do …
A way of doing ministry in which Christ followers model, encourage, and equip others to be salt and light servants where they live
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The North American Mission Board is developing a new evangelism initiative to fulfill their 2020 vision of “Every Believer Sharing, Every Person Hearing.” “God’s Plan for Sharing” is meant to encourage Christians to prayerfully and thoughtfully engage in the most effective approach for making Christ known. GPS lays out four biblical mileposts to lead your …
This was submitted by one of our readers and permission granted to be distributed by EvangelismCoach.org. The writer wishes to remain anonymous. Some slight editing for on-line reading have been made. The writer gave this as part of their Hospitality training to their welcoming ministries team in a mid-size congregation, so some may be worded …
As I continued to read through Ron Crandall’s book, he gives a list of principles for church renewal and revitalization from the ages of church history. It may seem like a no-brainer, but at least observations through church history back it up. 1. Personal renewal. Renewal of a church begins with renewal of the individual. …
This week and next, you’ll be reading about small church transformation, particularly the role of evangelism, based on a study of small churches first done in 1995 and then updated in December of 2008. These first few posts setup some of the background and are meant to be in small blog-size portions for easy consumption. …
Later in December, I will give a talk on helping churches evangelize in areas of extreme poverty, with lots of high-risk or at-risk children. At-risk or high-risk is defined locally as children who are Abused Addicted Abandoned Children of an addicted parent. Fourteen churches want to send their pastors and children’s workers to a day …
Last evening, I spent time in some personal evangelism training, coaching another person in their evangelism skills, and helping them discover an insight their personal evangelism. It was an informal evangelism training conversation, and the person felt jazzed about what he has been learning and discovering. He left prepared for the evangelism conversations he expected …
Recently, in late July, I was in Volcán Panama, teaching evangelism training workshops at the mission base of Operation Mobilization Panama. Missionaries from 6 different countries had come to Volcán Panama for two months of working with the local church. To double up the use of the time, I also had the opportunity to do …
According to a Barna Research survey of people looking for a church, “Friendliness to Visitors” is Extremely important: 71% Somewhat important: 21% Based on a national telephone survey of 1,015 people 18 or older; sampling error of plus/minus 3 percent. Citation: Moody (Jan/ Feb 2002); For 9 out of 10 visitors, the friendliness of your …
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In addition to our one-to-one evangelism coaching and mentoring services, EvangelismCoach.org provides services as an evangelism consultant and trainer to come along side local church sessions, presbyteries, other governing bodies or judicatories. We want to encourage through training and motivating people to become more confident about sharing their faith and as a consequence helping them …
Maybe you want to improve your church’s hospitality. Maybe you want to grow in your personal evangelism skills. Maybe you want practical and implementable steps you can take to grow your church. Maybe there are too many pages on my website for you to know where to start! 7 Reasons to Sign up for the …
If you haven’t done it already, what is your church’s evangelism strategy for 2008? Have you set measurable evangelism goals? I met a pastor last week who was telling me that their church will be focused on Evangelism as one of their top priorities in 2008. He has invited me to come in my role …
