Category: Guest Services

How to Map Your Parking Lot, part 3: Signage and Cones

This is the third of a four-part series that gets into the weeds of how to set your parking lot up for success. We’re looking at mapping from zones to cones and people to placement,...

How to Map Your Parking Lot, part 2: Ingress and Egress

This is the second of a four-part series that gets into the weeds of how to set your parking lot up for success. We’re looking at mapping from zones to cones and people to placement,...

How to Map Your Parking Lot, part 1: Creating Zones

This is the first of a four-part series that gets into the weeds of how to set your parking lot up for success. We’re looking at mapping from zones to cones and people to placement,...

This Year, Resolve to Show Up.

90% of a successful guest services strategy can be taken care of by simply showing up. If you’re a volunteer, show up on time. Don’t call out unless it’s an emergency. Remember your role on...

2022 Year in Review: Posts

It’s become as predictable as an unwanted fruitcake and a radio-style guerilla attack of I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. That’s right, I’m talking about everyone’s year-end top ten list. Here are – in no...

Don’t Forget Your First-Time Guests this Christmas!

We are mere days away from Christmas Eve services, which means – if you’re in church world or the guest services space – you don’t have time to be reading this what are you doing...

Why Consistency Matters in Guest Services

There is a difference between your Guest Services team and your guest services culture. One has everything to do with what we do, the other has everything to do with who we are. And no...

Good Neighbor Hospitality: Business to Business

When you look at the landscape of American evangelicalism, our gathering spaces are just as varied as our churches: rural congregations bordering acres of open farmland. Urban congregations in landlocked buildings. Portable congregations renting school...

Weekends Are For New Friends

Repeat after me: Weekends are for new friends. When we walk into the church lobby on the weekend, the temptation is to talk to those we already know. Our small group friends, our ministry team...

The Easy Way Out

Not too long ago, I was on my way to the grocery store when I came up on a line of cars and a road crew. Apparently a large-ish tree had fallen across two lanes...

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