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How does your church treat first time visitors? Here's how to find out!
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.
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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.