How to Prepare the Welcome Greeting for Your Church
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.
Six hints for welcoming visitors to your church
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
3 Keys to Make an Evangelistic Sunday School Culture
Sunday school has a long history of being an evangelistic tool of the church. I’ve visited growing churches that utilize their Sunday School to not only grow their members, but create a space where newcomers can connect and discover faith. Recently, a small church pastor asked me about how to make their Sunday School evangelistic. …
Break the Barriers Hospitality Training on DVD
You’ve worked so hard to attract church visitors. . . . . You passionately desire to reach these newcomers for Christ. You know that Jesus can make a difference in their life. Perhaps you’ve spent money on advertising like a direct mail campaign or business cards members give away. You’ve designed sermon series to hopefully …
Podcast: Christmas Outreach to the Community
Listen in as one church tells the story of getting their Christmas events out to a few thousand people during a town Christmas event. I interview Kevin Cunningham, outreach pastor of a church in Nashua New Hampshire, a town of about 80,000.
Update your Church Website for Your Christmas Visitors
Many people check out a church’s website or Facebook page prior to visiting your church at Christmas. If you are having special events at Christmas to attract new church visitors, ask yourself these questions while at your church website: What time is your Christmas Eve Service? What should I expect on Christmas Eve? Is there …
6 Steps to Organize an Invite a Friend Day
A reader contacted me via Ask EvangelismCoach: “Pastor, our small church needs help organizing a Friends and Family day for the end of August to launch our new season. Can you help us?” As we talked on the phone, we kicked around a few ideas unique to their church, but developed some ideas that are …
25 Factors That Shape Visitor Perceptions About Church
Today’s Guest Article is from Steve Fogg: Clear and Simple. He is a blogger from Australia, focused on communications and PR for churches. I first found Steve through a Blog Carnival on OurChurch.com While I’m away on vacation, there will be a few guests posts this week. This list is an awesome compilation of factors …
Webinar: Training Church Greeters Resources
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 …
How to Make and Use Church Name Tags
For churches that have considered and want to implement using name tags, today’s post gives you some thoughts about how to make and use name tags in church. 1. Preprint church name tags for your regular attendees One church set up two large registration areas. One has pre-printed tags for regular attendees and blank name …
Make it easy to Build Relational Connections
As the author, I get to hear various reasons why people buy my book on church hospitality, How to Welcome Church Visitors. Why are church hospitality committees (Read: What do Church Hospitality Committees do?) looking to improve their hospitality ministry in their church by buying my book? Fear that a visitor to their church will come …
Mothers Day 2009 Outreach Ideas
Mother’s Day 2009 may be a time to conduct special weekend event outreaches. I know several pastors that will give a sermon related to motherhood. But it’s also an opportunity for churches to engage their neighborhood. Some links have since broken.
Church Hospitality Webinar Slides Only and Related Resources
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 …
How to Get a First Time Church Visitor
The short answer: Personal Invitation from a Trusted friend. Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn) In your research, have you found that there’s one specific reason that visitors come to church? The friendship factor. We’ve asked more than 50,000 people over the last 10 years why they came …
10 Most Important Minutes to Church Visitors
Church growth books on first impressions often stress the first 7 minutes of a visitor’s experience. But this surprise result indicates that the something else is more important than first impressions. Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn) We also asked the focus groups when they decided that the church …
Guest Article: Church Hospitality Training
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 …
Connecting Worship and Evangelism
During January, I received a series of questions via Ask Evangelism Coach section. A series of posts this week will focus on sharing these. It’s my hope that our readers will join in the conversation. The question for today: What is the difference between Evangelism and Worship?
3 Places to Greet Visitors in a Sunday School
The article mentions three times/places where we need to greet guests: entrances, the front, and after. Allow me to adjust the article's suggestions to apply to the class:
The Overzealous Church Greeter Guy
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For Greeters: What to say to A Church Visitor
let me share some possible starting scripts that you can use yourself, or develop more fully into a resource you can use at your church.
10 Church Visitor Gift Ideas
The wow factor can play a role in helping a church visitor come back for a second visit. That is one of the first steps to church visitor assimilation. Sharing a small gift as a token of appreciation after a first visit can be a way to stand out and demonstrate extra care. What are …
3 Steps to Make Church Visitor Welcome Packets
Ideas of how to create church welcome packets and what to put in a church visitor packet folders, or guest welcome folder.
20 Blunders in Welcoming Church visitors
The last two posts (part I and part II) shared common practices on welcoming visitors to church. Here are 20 blunders I’ve seen churches make in greeting visitors to church. Feel free to add your own in the mix (use the comments below). No One Said Hello. Bad breath. 20 question doctrinal exam to make …
10 Practices to Welcome Church Visitors
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 …