How to Organize Your Greeting Teams
By EvangelismCoach
Organizing your greeter team is not a process that naturally happens.
As humans, we tend to over organize (particularly those gifted in administration – like me).
How do you structure your teams?
Watch this 4 minute video and I’ll tell you what I learned
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How is your greeting ministry organized? Would you share?
Include your the approximate attendance size of your church and how many services would be helpful to know.
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I come from a very small church (avg wkly attend of about 25), with one worship service. Volunteers are designated weekly. Our greeting ministry is pretty much a “door greeter” ministry, although we’ve begun to deliberately expand it to include other areas of extending our hospitality.
Great Video! We have a smaller church (150-200) and use only door greeters. I just call members of the church once a week and get them to greet. Wish I could create a little bit more excitement though. I’d love to work on a rotation schedule which people could commit more.
Nicole
I work with a church of 750-800 that has two morning services. Each of our 18 ministries are led by Ministry Directors (volunteer positions) of which our Greeting Ministry is one. The Greeting M.D. is responsible for putting together a leadership team that meets monthly. This team is currently in the formation process, but when fully organized will consist of a leader over door greeters, a leader over the Welcome Center, and a leader over first-time guest followup. In the future we hope to add another leader over parking lot greeting. Our ministry group is currently studying and implementing some of the ideas we learned from Nelson Searcy’s book, Fusion.
We have a chairperson who manages the overall administration of the Greeters team.
List for which Sundays door welcomers assist.
Adults and Youth both are greeters. Youth on 2nd Sundays.
When we go out to another Church, Chairperson makes sure there is support for our Church there.
Ministry celebrations include greeters from other churches.
We are located in Detroit, MI, have an average attendance of 1400 and have two Sunday morning services at 9:00 and 11:30am. I am paid staff as the Director of First Impressions & Communication (which also includes Connection and Office Administration. The following teams fall under my direction:
Parking Lot Greeters
Usher/Greeter
Cafe Grace
Information Counter (ME)
Security
We have leaders meetings on a monthly basis and team meetings on a quarterly basis – two of which include emergency training.
I love these videos – I will be sharing them with our leaders in order to enhance our efforts.
I hope to be in touch with you soon! I want to add a new team of ‘Connection Hosts.’
Our church has an average attendance of 450-550 each Sunday. We just recently started a second service, which gives us the 8am and 11am service.
As the volunteer leader of this ministry, we meet monthly. Our ministry consist of both door greeters and welcome greeters. We have uniforms(summer/fall/and formal for big events).
Schedules are given out twice a year. The first schedule extends from Jan-June, and the second from July-Dec. There are 3-4 members on each team, and each team has one designated Sunday each month.
We also serve as parking lot greeters, especially on rainy days, and meet members/visitors with umbrellas.
Thanks for all of the information about Greeters. Do you have anythjing on Ushers?????
Our church has two services, 8 & 11 with over 2,000 worshippers per Sunday and a Wednesday evening service. Over 80 Greeters are scheduled by preferred Sundays and service times. Example, 1 & 3 Sunday, 8 or 11. Jr. Greeters serve on 3rd Sunday. Twelve Service Leaders serve under me as Team Leaders for the above with the same schedule. Additionally, they also oversee other areas of the ministry such as:
Special Events
Attire
Hospitality
Spiritual Growth
New Greeter training
Jr. Greeters
Administrative Assistant
Lost and Found
The entire Greeters ministry meets monthly onsite and two-hour Service/Team Leaders meetings are scheduled offsite bi-monthly.
I really enjoy the videos,the comments and good ideas from other greeter teams.
I attend a church that avg’s 75 attendees a week.
I create a bi-monthly Church Service schedule where I list Greeters, Worship leader, Special Music, Sound booth/slideshow, Nursery, church cleaners, and Children’s Ministry servers. It’s nice to have a 2 month snapshot of where everyone is serving. It also helps to ensure a person isn’t “over booked”.
I appreciate the question on ushers. We currently have only ushers (our church enrollment is about 125 families) and are considering adding greeters. I’m not sure that there is enough difference between the two roles to warrant recruiting more volunteers. Suggestions?