Your Turn: How to Identify Church Visitors in a Large Church
Five body language observations that can help your church greeters detect first-time church visitors
6 Goals of a Church Greeter
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.
How to Say the Welcome Greeting at a church
Imagine that you are a lay person in your congregation (many of you are). Your pastor calls you on Thursday and says We are preparing the church bulletin. Would you like to be our liturgist and give the welcome speech on Sunday? Would you like to be person who says “Welcome to our church?” Your …
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
Guest Assimilation: A Roadmap to success
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.
How to Give An Extra Large Welcome in an Extra Small Church
This week, I had a hospitality coaching call. The client was in charge of starting a hospitality and welcome ministry in a startup storefront church. Under 20 people attend on a Sunday at the moment. How can an extra small church give a good welcome? It’s a challenge when the extra small church still has …
What does the Bible say about Hospitality Ministry?
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 …
14 Bible Verses on Welcoming the Stranger
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.
Take Your Church Up A Notch For Under $2,500!
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, …
Need More Hospitality Ministry Volunteers?
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 …
This belongs in your church’s DNA
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 …
10 Things Every First Time Church Greeter Should Know
So you want to be a church greeter, but too embarrassed to say you are not sure what you are doing? Don’t want to say something that would put you on this list of crazy things church greeters say? If you are a first time church greeter, here are ten things you need to know …
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 …
Your Turn: What to say to latecomers to church
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 …
Quick Survey to Evaluate Your Church Guest Services
This was originally posted at Group’s Church Volunteer Central (Link discovered broken in 2017) On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being “This needs definite work”… 5 being “We rock at this”) rate your churches greeting and guest services practices:
Identify Your Church Hospitality Blind Spots
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. …
Top 10 Church Greeter Guidelines
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.
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 …
4 ways to pray for your church’s hospitality ministry
The problem that many of our churches face is that church visitors do not come back for the second or third time. Churches need to get the core values of church hospitality: Visitors are a gift from God. We have the privilege of influencing their journey to faith. We can lead them to Christ. We …
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 …
Guest Article: Seeing Your Church through the Eyes of a Church Visitor
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.
Do a Quarterly Review Of Hospitality Ministries
I visited a church this weekend. No one said hello. Even though we waited around for nearly 20 minutes after the service was over. No one said hello.
5 Barriers to Effective Church Hospitality
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 …
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 …