How
does your church treat first time visitors? Here's how
to find out!
 If
you would like to discover and improve the way you greet first-time
visitors to your church, here is a great way to do so.
Here is how it works. Print out the Guest's
Checklist,
linked below, and give it to a member of a neighboring church
or even better, to an unchurched person and have that person
visit your congregation, unannounced, on a Sunday morning.
After the service that visitor completes the checklist and
returns it to you.
This will give you invaluable feedback about how a newcomer
discovers your church, finds the church, parks, is greeted
in the narthex, experiences worship and church school, survives
coffee hour, etc. This will help you improve that first-time
experience for newcomers.
Most research shows that a newcomer will make us his/her mind
in the first four minutes of a visit. So we have to be sharp!
Have fun with this instrument and deepen your ministry of
hospitality.
Any questions? Contact Paul
Nickerson, Associate Conference Minister for Evangelism,
Mission and Justice.
Download
the Guest's Checklist for Hospitality
(This is a PDF document. If you cannot access
it, click here for help.)
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