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8 Lessons from My Church Shopping Experience

In the past 12 months, our family experienced being a church shopper.

We share some of first time visitor experiences

After a few months, we have found a church home, a new church development that is not yet public.

We are training our welcome teams from the start and building welcome and hospitality into our DNA.

Here are some lessons I learned from all 8 visits (I still have yet to write up two).

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20 Church Hospitality Goofs and How You Can Avoid Them

Church Hospitality MistakesYou 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.

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3 Lessons for Hospitality Committees from a church visit

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

I felt so out of place as we attended and tried to participate in their church service at their personal invitation.

The order of service, communal prayers, and liturgical responses were completely different from anything I had experienced before.
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Duties of Church Hospitality Committee or Team

A common question I receive is

What are some duties of the church hospitality team or committee?

I’ve put together a list of potential hospitality duties for your committee.

Your team might want to consider these as focus areas as you work on your church hospitality program.

Larger churches will break these into teams, while smaller churches will find some of these areas are not applicable.

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What does a church hospitality committee do?

Here as 2012 ends and we step into 2013, a common question appearing in my search results deals with

What does the church hospitality committee do?

Define the goal

I’ve spoken with several committees over the last few years in my coaching phone calls about their church hospitality program.

A common thread in these conversations is

Where do we start with our church hospitality program?

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