Hospitality Ministry Volunteer Handbook: Equipping You to Serve

by Greg Atkinson

Be Our Guest

Whether you are a volunteer in your church’s guest services ministry, or thinking about serving alongside ushers, greeters, welcome desk hosts, and parking lot attendants at your church, the Hospitality Ministry Volunteer Handbook is for you!

How does a member of community see your church? When they hear your church’s name, what is their initial reaction? We want any individual who steps foot onto our church campus to immediately feel Christ’s love through our actions toward them—the question is, are we doing a good job at accomplishing that mission?

We might not think of customer service and church hospitality in the same vein, but this book shows how a service mentality can make life-changing first impressions on newcomers. It’s filled with specific, practical strategies and tools to help the hospitality ministry team show the love of Christ to every visitor.

Join author Greg Atkinson as he helps identify ways your church can increase its hospitality to the community around you, and, ultimately, reach those people for the Kingdom of God.

138 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 24, 2019

About the author

Greg Atkinson is the Founder of Worship Impressions, the First Impressions Conference, The Entrepreneurial Church Conference, and the Co-Founder of the Social Media Church Conference. Greg is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, leadership coach, and consultant. Greg has worked with churches of all stages and sizes, including some of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the country, as well as with businesses, non-profits, and organizations such as Josh McDowell Ministries. Greg started and ran his own social media marketing company. Greg has been featured in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Christianity Today, and on CBS, FOX, and NBC. Greg has been in leadership for three decades. He resides in Charlotte, NC.

Reviews

[Vincent Derr · Rating 3 out of 5]

In some ways this book is great and will help us as a church with our hospitality ministry. In other ways it can trend towards outdated gimmick laden ideas suited for urban mega churches. In its basic form this is a great help, but leaders must discern what are best practices for their local church. It can seem to advocate for an astroturf form of hospitality. It appears real on the surface but lacks depth and organic life. This book has a firm handle of a more market economic approach. I may sound like a curmudgeon that hated this book and I didn’t. It was a good book, just maybe don’t swallow it whole.
3.5 out of 5