Serving as a Church Greeter

Serving as a Church Greeter
Author: Zondervan,
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310833264

For:•Individual use•Group trainingGreeters are the welcoming arms that people long to find in a church. This practical guidebook will help you reach out to people who need to experience the warmth of belonging to a church family.Serving as a Church Greeter sheds light on•The Ministry of Church Greeters•The Need for Warmhearted Greeters•Developing a User-Friendly Foyer•A Better Way of Doing Things•The Parking Lot MinistryZondervan Practical Ministry Guides provide you with simple, practical insights for serving in today’s churches. Written by experienced pastors and church workers, these easy-to-read, to-the-point booklets address the fundamentals of different ministries as practiced effectively in real life. You’ll find biblical insight and wise, field-tested advice you can apply today, as well as discussion questions to help you think through and integrate what you read.

Greeting 101

Greeting 101
Author: Buddy Bell
Publisher: Harrison House Publishers
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1577948874

Dr. Buddy Bell, Ministry of Helps specialist, gives church greeters humor and instruction on how to carry out one of the most important areas in church ministry ndash; the first impression of greeting.

Zondervan Practical Ministry Guides

Zondervan Practical Ministry Guides
Author: Dr Leslie Parrott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780310644613

Zondervan Practical Ministry Guides provide you with simple, practical insights for serving in today's churches. Written by experienced pastors and church workers, these easy-to-read, to-the-point booklets address the fundamentals of different ministries as practiced effectively in real life. You'll find biblical insight and wise, field-tested advice you can apply today, as well as discussion questions to help you think through and integrate what you read. This new edition of The Greeter's Manual deals with those who are often the first people one encounters at church-the greeters (not the pastor or a musician or even an usher). Here are the whys and wherefores of effective greeters, whether a church is large or small.

Greeting 101

Greeting 101
Author: Dr. Buddy Bell
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2007-04-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 160683228X

Momentary Ministers . . . Most people think it takes a long time--years, months or even days to accomplish something profound, something great for God. The truth of the matter is that church greeters have this opportunity every time someone walks through the doors of their church. Greeters have the awesome ability and opportunity to be an...

Serving as a Church Usher

Serving as a Church Usher
Author: Leslie Parrott
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310247632

C.1 ST. AID B & T. 03-18-2008. $7.99.

Becoming a Welcoming Church

Becoming a Welcoming Church
Author: Thom S. Rainer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1462765467

Most church members don't see their churches clearly. In almost all of Thom S. Rainer's consultations, church members perceive their church to be friendly. But as he surveyed guests, he found that the guests typically saw church members as unfriendly. The perception chasm existed because the members were indeed friendly . . . to one another. The guests felt like they crashed a private party. Bestselling author Thom Rainer (I Am a Church Member, Autopsy of a Deceased Church) has a game plan for churches to become more hospitable. In a format that is suitable for church members to read individually or study together, Rainer guides readers toward a practical framework for making a difference for those who visit their church. Churches may use Becoming a Welcoming Church to assess and audit where they are on a spectrum between welcoming and wanting. Additionally, churches can use the companion book We Want You Here to send guests home with a compelling vision for what pastors want every guest to know when they visit.

Welcome to Our Church

Welcome to Our Church
Author: Annette Schroeder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Church greeters
ISBN: 9780570035602

When is the best time to seat a latecomer? How can you be friendly to visitors without overwhelming them? What should you do if someone faints during the worship service? It's natural to have these questions as an usher or greeter. You can find the answer to these questions and more in Welcome to Our Church. This book will help ushers and greeters learn how to make visitors and members feel welcome, handle large crowds of people and noisy children, prepare for emergencies and problem situations, and usher special services like weddings and funerals.

Ushering 101

Ushering 101
Author: Buddy Bell
Publisher: Harrison House Publishers
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1577948882

Dr. Buddy Bell, founder of Ministry of Helps International, combines humor with informative teaching and practical tips to help ushers realize the importance of serving people with excellence in the local church.

A Stranger in the House of God

A Stranger in the House of God
Author: John Koessler
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009-08-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310864216

Growing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outside wondered about the God they worshipped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. A Stranger in the House of God addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers. Like a contemporary Pilgrim’s Progress, it traces the author’s journey and explores his experiences with both charismatic and evangelical Christianity. It also describes his transformation from religious outsider to ordained pastor. John Koessler provides a poignant and often humorous window into the interior of the soul as he describes his journey from doubt and struggle with the church to personal faith

The Unstuck Church

The Unstuck Church
Author: Tony Morgan
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0718094476

Acclaimed church leader, blogger, founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan unpacks the lifecycle of a typical church, identifies characteristics of each phase, and provides practical next steps a church can take to move towards sustained health. Think about your church for a moment. Is it growing? Is it diminishing? Is it somewhere in between? Acclaimed church leader, blogger, and founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan has identified the seven stages of a church's lifecycle that range from the hopeful and optimistic days of launch, to the stagnating last stages of life support. Regardless of the stage in which you find your church, it carries with it the world's greatest mission—to "go and make disciples of all the nations . . ." With eternity at stake the Church should be doing most everything within its power to see lives changed forever. The Church should strive for the pinnacle of the lifecycle, where they are continually making new disciples and experiencing what Morgan refers to as "sustained health." In The Unstuck Church, Morgan unpacks each phase of the church lifecycle, and offers specific and strategic next steps the church leader can take to find it's way to sustained health . . . and finally become unstuck. The Unstuck Church is a call for honest an assessment of where your church sits on the lifecycle, and a challenge to move beyond it.