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• 3 Principles for Hospitality Ministry Leaders
    What makes for a great leader of a church hospitality team? Or, what makes a great leader of the church greeter team? From my readers, I regularly hear: How do I get greeters motivated? How do I get more volunteers to care about the vision? If you are a leader of church hospitality committee, […]
• 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 […]
• Is your hospitality ministry disorganized?
    Here is one of my favorite questions: Our hospitality ministry is SOOOOO lacking. What can we do to fix it? I love answering questions from readers like you, particularly in response to reading my “7 Secrets of Effective Hospitality” report that you get for subscribing to my newsletter (Why Subscribe?) Based on some descriptions […]
• 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 […]
• Church Hospitality Ministry is not Evangelism!
    Does your church hospitality committee call itself something like: Evangelism Committee Evangelism and Outreach Committee Witness Committee? I’ve encountered several church committees with similar descriptions like this: (Evangelism) Ministry Team is responsible for greeting visitors to our church. Visitors  receive a visit from a member of our congregatio […]
• Send her away – we don’t want her here
    A pastor friend of mine was released from his leadership as pastor. Some might say he was fired. Other’s would say, “it wasn’t a fit.” The conflict was just too great. The reason for the conflict The pastor was bringing too many new people into the church. Too many new believers. Too many new […]
• 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 […]
• Video: Church Greeter Training Discussion Starter
    Here is a practical discussion starter to use in a church greeter training meeting. The goal of the discussion starter is for your greeter team to think through ways they might respond to a person with such questions. Every church wants their guests to return, and not be driven away by church greeters who […]
• Webinar: Church Greeter Training February 21, 2013
    What does it take to be a great church greeter? No church wants to give a bad experience to their first time visitor or returning guest. When visitors have a bad experience with your church, often your error is something unintentional. Church Greeters play an important role in your hospitality ministry, but some need […]