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10 Things Every First Time Church Greeter Should Know

August 5, 2021 by EvangelismCoach

If you are a new church greeter, check out these ten quick tips to help you serve well that first day.

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Quick Survey to Evaluate Your Church Guest Services

November 30, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being “This needs definite work”… 5 being “We rock at this”) rate your church's greeting and guest services practices:

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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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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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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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Guest Assimilation: A Roadmap to success

August 9, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Churches that don't have a clear, simple and logical path for visitors to follow send out some conflicting messages! Members think they're a welcoming church, but the church guests experience something different.

The loving bonds of friendship that tie the church members together end up becoming barriers to those who'd like to elbow their way into the congregation! Read more. . . .

Make it easy for them, pastor.

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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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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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14 Bible Verses on Welcoming the Stranger

14 Bible Verses on Welcoming the Stranger

October 20, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

You can turn this list of bible verses on welcoming the stranger into a simple email to your greeter volunteers as a reminder of how they are called to extend an awesome welcome to your visitors and regular attenders. You might even consider separating them out one at a time for your reminder emails.

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Take Your Church Up A Notch For Under $2,500!

February 14, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

If you had a $2500 budget to spend on improving your church for a better welcome, where would you spend it? This could be a great discussion starter for your hospitality committee to help reveal some dreams and vision development.  Use it as a brainstormer an capture the ideas. If you had $2500 to spend, …

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How do I find hospitality ministry volunteers for my church?

Need More Hospitality Ministry Volunteers?

July 22, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

Here is a common email I receive (composed from various ones): I’m having a hard time finding volunteers who believe in the ministry of hospitality.  They think everyone should be doing this automatically. Our church doesn’t have enough people who are interested in being greeters. We can’t get any volunteers. . We’ve not ever organized our …

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This belongs in your church’s DNA

March 4, 2013 by EvangelismCoach

What do you want your church visitors to think when they experience your church? You’re crazy. God is in your midst. Last night, I taught in a church that is planting two more churches here in 2013. This is a young congregation, under 4 years old, already raising money and training leaders for future church …

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Your Turn: What to say to latecomers to church

July 2, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Recently, I was asked the following question via Ask The EvangelismCoach. I’ve posted this to the community Facebook Page, but wanted to give you all a chance to help pitch in.  I hope to do this on a more regular basis. Ask EvangelismCoach Question from Ed: “How do we greet late comers? Do we need …

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Identify Your Church Hospitality Blind Spots

January 26, 2018 by EvangelismCoach

Sometimes, we simply grow blind to the obvious. Junk gathers in rooms. Church Bulletins from prior weeks are left laying around. Lost and found items keep gathering in a corner. Bulletin boards get out of date. Toilet handles need jiggling. Window sills accumulate dust. In churches, we simply get used to the way things are. …

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10 Quick Tips for Church Greeters

Top 10 Church Greeter Guidelines

May 13, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Top 10 Church Greeter Guidelines plus a link to greeter training DVD Material. To pull off an effective welcome consistently, use church greeter guidelines that you can communicate quickly with your team. Here are 10 quick tips, followed by 10 more in video.

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Break the Barriers Hospitality Training on DVD

January 26, 2018 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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25 Factors That Shape Visitor Perceptions About Church

April 14, 2015 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Guest Article: Seeing Your Church through the Eyes of a Church Visitor

July 27, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Today’s guest article about being a church visitor comes from Fran, who is currently visiting churches after many years with one church of one brand. Here are her observations after visiting.  Reposted with permission.

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Do a Quarterly Review Of Hospitality Ministries

July 28, 2021 by EvangelismCoach

Many wise leaders of church hospitality teams know that a regular review of your systems is a good way to make sure things flow smoothly.

Inertia and inefficiency always creep in, and churches are no different.

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5 Barriers to Effective Church Hospitality

May 1, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

In the registration form on a recent webinar on Improving your Church Hospitality, people were asked “What is your biggest challenge in your church hospitality ministry?” Most respondents were people leading or serving in Hospitality ministries, pastors and officers in church leadership, plus a few church planters and church consultants. The answers fell into 5 …

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Webinar: Training Church Greeters Resources

December 24, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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How to Make and Use Church Name Tags

May 1, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Rabbit and the Elephant Book Review

The Rabbit and the Elephant Review

December 5, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

Today, I’m participating in a blog book tour for The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today’s Church Tony and Felicity Dale. Others have published their entry ahead of me (see below), and a few others will follow behind. The Rabbit and the Elephant A movement of house churches is …

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