Guesswork, part three: Defining the Vision
It’s week three of a new series called Taking the Guesswork Out Of Guest Services. If you’re a pastor or ministry leader of a church with no guest services team, a lagging guest services team, or...
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So What’s REALLY in the Bag?
An updated version of this post can be found here. Yesterday I celebrated the fifth April 1st on the blog. That’s right. In case you have the spiritual gift of gullibility, you were the victim...
First Time Guest Giveaways
[Editor’s note: before you read the following post, please take notice of two things: 1. It was originally penned on April 1. (APRIL. FIRST.) 2. And if April 1 does nothing to jog your brain, you...
What Happens on Monday?
If you’re a regular reader, you know that Fridays are usually reserved for archived posts. But that was before @MichaelMears tweeted this question yesterday: Are you gonna blog any on connecting new peeps at Easter &...
Guesswork, part two: Building an Organic Culture
We’re on week two of a new series called Taking the Guesswork Out Of Guest Services. If you’re a pastor or ministry leader of a church with no guest services team, a lagging guest services team,...
Why We Say “Attend One, Serve One”
On our First Impressions Team at the Summit, we try to get by with just a very few rules: never be rude to a guest. Serve where you’re wired. Never feed ’em after midnight. But...
Guesswork, part one: Killing Culture
Today we begin a new weekly series called Taking the Guesswork Out Of Guest Services. If you’re a pastor or ministry leader of a church with no guest services team, a lagging guest services team, or...
The “Guesswork” Series Begins
Today begins a new series that I’m calling Taking the Guesswork Out Of Guest Services. Well actually, today is the introduction to that series, because that way I get a whole extra week to tease you about it...
Grow Small Before You Go Big
The best ministry leaders are dreamers. Huge visionaries. Think-ten-years-ahead kind of people. They know what the end result should look like, and they stack strategies and fund budgets and build teams to move the dream...
Give It Away
This weekend the Summit played host to representatives from a couple of different church staff teams. They were spending time with us in order to observe some of the ministry initiatives they’re intending to launch...
