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, …