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by Christopher Walker (Author)
Church greeter ministry is a vital part of welcoming visitors to your church. They help shape that first impression which in turn, may very well shape a visitor's journey to Christ.
Sadly, greeting ministry gets neglected, overlooked, or relegated to auto-pilot. Church leaders end up begging for unmotivated volunteers who fill a space.Church Greeters 101 leads you forward in starting or relaunching the greeter ministry of your church, covering such topics as:
- how to recruit church greeters,
- ideas to train church greeters, and
- ways to cast the vision for ongoing hospitality ministry.
- You've been asked to recruit greeters for your church greeting ministry.
- You've been asked to organize your church greeters, but aren't quite sure where to start.
- You've been asked to train your current greeters but can't find any adequate training material available.
Where do I begin?
Perhaps your greeter ministry has fizzled out during an interim minister. Maybe your church greeting ministry has been neglected because your church has been through a process of healing. Or maybe your church has never had a greeter ministry and you feel the need to start something fresh. If you have the responsibility to lead the your church's greeter ministry, Church Greeters 101 can help you start organizing this ministry to
- improve your church's welcome experience,
- identify and recruit new volunteers,
- cast a renewed vision for hospitality ministry, and
- take your welcome experience to new levels.
- How to recruit new church greeters
- How to keep your church greeters from dropping out of ministry.
- Meeting ideas for church greeter training.
- 4 steps to recruit new church greeters and keep them on board.
- 11 Sample exercises and role plays
- 27 brainstorming questions for your greeter ministry
- A special section on ushers
- How to notice a 1st time visitor
- What to say to first time church visitors
- What NOT to say to first time church visitors
- How to spiritually prepare your greeting team
- A plan for organizing your greeter department or ministry
- Sample church greeter guidelines and checklist for last minute reference
- Sample initial greeter training meeting
- 6 qualities of a excellent greeter
- 10 possible topics for greeter training meetings
- How to organize a greeting ministry from scratch
- How to schedule greeters
- How to figure out how many greeters you need.
- 6 different types of greeters.
- Ideas to develop your own church handouts and checklists.
- Help your greeters develop a commitment to this ministry.
Author Biography
Chris has studied evangelism and church growth ever since answering phones for a Billy Graham crusade over 20 years ago, and has led countless training seminars throughout North and South America in many different denominations. He wants to help your church improve its evangelism and hospitality systems to help reach more people for Christ where your church is planted. Chris was involved in youth ministry for 15 years, was associate pastor at Christ Presbyterian in Richmond VA, and in 2001 helped to launch Eternity Church, an international church focused on gathering the nations to worship Christ. He earned a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield IL, and a Master of Theology from Union Theological Seminary, Richmond VA. Chris has taught evangelism and church renewal in 8 different countries: United States, Austria, Panamá, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
