Greeting During Passing The Peace
By EvangelismCoach
Not all churches use the “passing of the peace” handshake fest, but some do.
Here is a church that did, but still overlooked the visitors — a family of 6 — in their midst.
If you are training your church greeters, how can you help your greeters use this time to connect briefly with first time visitors?
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Our church also engages in a “Welcome Time” where members meet and greet and shake hands but before that begins, our pastor makes it a priority to tell the visitors and guests how special they are and we are blessed that they chose to come to our church. He asks them to sit a “place of worship” (the seat they are sitting in) while members go around meeting, shaking hands, hugging, and this too helps our members recognize the visitors which are welcomed warmly. By sitting down, the ushers are able to hand a visitor’s card for the guests to fill out and turn in later as a record of their visit to our church.
Wolfgang
I am training greeters/ushers at our church for a new program that rolls out in 2 weeks. I have the greeters meeting the visitors at the door seat them and introduce them to at least one family sitting around the visitors.At the time of Pass the Peace the visitors know one family that makes sure they are introduced to others. Also, having at least 2 greeters at the door frees one greeter to seat the visiting family without leaving the door unattended.
Our Church has a time of fellowship. during this time everyone greets and welcome each other.
The greeters serving during the service before are required to greet everone upon entering the building.
I place my greeters at front and side doors to welcome visitors. We show them where the childrens church and nursery is and we have gift bags with booklets and info on our church in the bags.My trouble is keeping greeters , people change their minds and go from place to place. how can i make Greeter Ministry appealing to our members? or is it that they must be lead to serve?
Our greeters rotate – they serve once a month. Most have a servants heart and believe this is their ministry. I watch body language and facial expressions when recruiting people for the position. I ask them to think about it and let me know if their body language says “no” or they don’t answer with a joyful “yes”. That way the people who are best fitted for the job are having fun and enjoying themselves and we don’t have any sour faces at the doors.
I hope the greeters carry their joy of greeting into the sanctuary.
Church size 700 to 800 with 35 greeters
I have served as a greeter/usher at our church for some time now and am now stepping up to lead our greeter/usher teams. Therefore we are looking at ways to improve this ministry. We cuurently have a greeter placed at the front door to welcome everyone that enters and two greeters at the entrance of the sanctuary to greet each person, give them a church bulletin and accompany those that are new or visiting to a seat. During meet & greet the pastor encourages everyone to shake hands or hug someone they do not know and to do it out of our section of seating.