If you were the first time visitor in a church, would you want to be introduced publically to a group of people you didn’t know, hadn’t met, and may not see again?
Your own answer to that question may give you a clue as why that is a bad idea.
Don’t introduce first time visitors. Introduce your church instead.
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).
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 this past Sunday drew my attention to the value of small talk. [Read more…]
In the summer of 2014, our family moved to central Florida due to an expansion of our ministry’s vision and reach.
I wrote up our experience of the first church we visited. [Read more…]
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I know first hand the uncomfortable awkwardness when church visitors show up 10 minutes early to get a seat and the sanctuary is empty except for a few musicians finishing a review rehearsal, and church members arriving up to 30 minutes late.
Recently, a reader submitted a question via Ask EvangelismCoach, concerning a Sunday School teacher who doesn’t finish their class on time.
The result keeps many church members out of the sanctuary in those important first impression minutes visitors get of a church. [Read more…]
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