Navigating Shifting and Competing Values
…Authenticity is about being one’s true self with no pretenses. Inclusivity and diversity are about welcoming and including others even if they are different than we are. They include valuing…
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…Authenticity is about being one’s true self with no pretenses. Inclusivity and diversity are about welcoming and including others even if they are different than we are. They include valuing…
…New Adapters: Shaping Ideas to Fit Your Congregation, published and used with permission by Abingdon Press, and available at Cokesbury and Amazon. Related Resources: Be the Welcoming Church Video Tool…
…up” the small church to be a welcoming church. He likens the small church to French bread. It is wonderful once you break it open, but breaking it open is…
…for Church Communications, the book is available from Amazon. Related Resources: Be the Welcoming Church Video Tool Kit Ways to Welcome Worship Guests Warmly by Robert Crossman The Greeter Gauntlet…
…for them. Related Resources 50 Ways to Welcome New People, a free Lewis Center resource The New Welcome Video Tool Kit Top 10 Learnings about Welcoming Newcomers by Keith Anderson…
…Welcome Video Tool Kit helps you open your church to the transformative presence of new people — welcoming newcomers by acknowledging the changing ways that people enter into the life…
…Welcoming Church, a Lewis Center video tool kit resource Should You Add Another Easter Worship Service? by Lovett H. Weems Jr. 4 Ways to Make Easter Hospitality the Pattern for…
…Attendance and Bear More Fruit by Lovett H. Weems, Jr., and Tom Berlin Be the Welcoming Church Video Tool Kit Palms in the Park on Palm Sunday by Laura Heikes…
…of Lent and to find ways to make these weeks welcoming to those who might be new to the church. This can begin with something as simple as reminding people…
…Because of It (CreateSpace, 2016) is available from Amazon. Related Resources: 50 Ways to Welcome New People, a free resource from the Lewis Center Welcoming Newcomers to Your Congregation by…
…points, and get new people involved. The New Welcome Video Tool Kit helps you open your church to the transformative presence of new people — welcoming newcomers by acknowledging the…
…welcoming and accepting persons of all ages, genders, races, abilities, orientations, identities, and nationalities — all God’s people — into the church family. Core values can serve three critical purposes…
…to Invite by Lovett H. Weems, Jr. Add Off-Site Christmas Eve Services This Year by Mack Strange 50 Ways to Increase Worship Attendance Be the Welcoming Church Video Tool Kit…
…the hungry, and welcoming the stranger. Big things. Generous people give to things bigger than themselves. Churches dream too small. It seems the Christian faith has come to be about…
…process works. The message can be welcoming and invitational in tone. In addition to composing letters along these lines, it can be helpful to keep these categories in mind if…
…Personal Preferences into Missional Thinking by Ed Stetzer and David Putman The Missing Person in Worship Planning by Lovett H. Weems, Jr. Be the Welcoming Church Video Tool Kit …
…creating a greeter gauntlet. Get rid of the gauntlet, and make it easy for your first-time guests. Related Resources: Be the Welcoming Church Video Tool Kit The New Welcome Resource…
…of Your Advent Candles Doesn’t Matter by Keith Anderson Encouraging Personal Devotion During Advent by Tom Berlin and Lovett H. Weems, Jr. Be the Welcoming Church Video Tool Kit …
…marquees, banners, yard signs — even the appearance of the building and grounds as well as visible activities — should be treated as means of welcoming and informing those beyond…
…Duckworth’s Wide Welcome: How the Unsettling Presence of Newcomers Can Save the Church is available through Amazon or Cokesbury. Related Resources: Top 10 Learnings about Welcoming Newcomers by Keith Anderson…
…It must start with a sincere desire to build relationships with our neighbors and bless them in ways that are welcoming and comfortable to them. Related Resources: Lattes, Ashes, Prayer,…
…process works. The message can be welcoming and invitational in tone. In addition to composing letters along these lines, it can be helpful to keep these categories in mind if…
…demonstrated what that meant by healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and welcoming the stranger. Big things. Generous people give to things bigger than themselves. Churches dream too small. The…
…healthy and vital ending of ministry as the pastor moves toward retirement and a solid foundation for the congregation as it moves into the process of welcoming a new pastor….
…together. Related Resources: Palms in the Park on Palm Sunday by Laura Heikes Add Off-Site Christmas Eve Services This Year by Mack Strange Be the Welcoming Church Video Tool Kit…
…First-Time Visitors from which this article is adapted and used by permission. The book is available through Amazon. Related Resources: Be the Welcoming Church Video Tool Kit An Open Letter…
…if you will, as far as maybe not a bar. But hey, how do we create this as a place where we’re welcoming people in, where we’re really meeting people…
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