Hospitality Takes All Kinds

Ministry Team Diversity

While being part of a team, it requires knowing your personal role and responsibilities. Also, each role should understand somewhat of how each he fits in the larger concept of the team. Some will require more people skills or intuition to “connect” with a guest. Other roles will require more mobility. And still others will require a more in-depth working knowledge of information.

So far, we have looked at the general concepts to a successful Hospitality Team Ministry. There are significant things at each stage. Those begin from the very point of interest to considering attending a worship assembly. It may begin with an advertisement, church sign, invitation by a friend, or a spiritual thought from within. Each one of those creates some expectations as they arrive on church property. The experience of love from that time until they leave the property and the follow-up will drastically determine whether they will want to continue a relationship.

Now that we have some information to begin with, let’s take a look at the process. The goal of this section is entitled; “From the Street to the Seat”. This will walk us through the four initial areas of contact which will influence the way our first-time Guest perceives our church family by the way they are; Greeted, Directed, Treated, and Seated.

Greeted, Directed, Treated, and Seated.

Now, I want to throw in some possible and probable perspectives that guests will have. It is important that we understand their perspective as God brings those gifts of people our way.

Greeted- (Guest #1’s perspective may be that society says Christians are self-absorbed and think only of themselves).

Welcomed with a smile -“Everything speaks to first-time Guests; everything.” The Following is a list and description of the various “positions.”