This handbook is part of a series designed to equip and empower church volunteers for effective ministry. If you're reading this, chances are you're a church volunteer. Thanks for your willingness to serve!

This handbook is part of a series designed to equip and empower church volunteers for effective ministry. If you're reading this, chances are you're a church volunteer. Thanks for your willingness to serve!

Engaging worship and intentional follow-up processes are important, but what compels guests to return to our churches is the warmth of our welcome and hospitality that goes beyond their expectations. The Art of Hospitality, a new comprehensive program developed by hospitality experts from the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, promises to guide a local church in exactly what the program’s title implies: the artform of creating radical hospitality that infiltrates the heart and culture of the entire church. Complete with techniques and strategic planning throughout, The Art of Hospitality will effectively change how you do church, leaving guests surprised, delighted, and eager to return. Loaded with key principles and methods honed by hospitality experts Debi Nixon and Yvonne Gentile in their work at The Church of the Resurrection, this guide is designed to engage staff across all ministry areas in creating a common language around the ministry of welcome. Additional components purchased separately include: The Art of Hospitality: Implementation Guide: Includes step-by-step implementation strategies for leadership teams tasked with developing and leading hospitality ministry. The Art of Hospitality: Implementation DVD: A supplemental DVD to accompany Implementation with visual training in all areas of hospitality. The Art of Hospitality: Companion Book: Three-chapter book for the congregation as a whole or small groups to coincide with a sermon series in order to prepare the hearts and minds of the people in the pews. This compelling and practical program has been created by two hospitality leaders with credentials to claim their expertise: Debi Nixon is the Executive Director of ShareChurch, and Yvonne Gentile is the Senior Director of Guest Connections at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection—the largest United Methodist Church in the United States with more than 22,000 members and 13,000 average weekly attendees across its campuses.

This handbook is part of a series designed to equip and empower church volunteers for effective ministry. If you're reading this, chances are you're a church volunteer. Thanks for your willingness to serve!

Engaging worship and intentional follow-up processes are important, but what compels guests to return to our churches is the warmth of our welcome and hospitality that goes beyond their expectations. The Art of Hospitality, a new comprehensive program developed by hospitality experts from the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, promises to guide a local church in exactly what the program’s title implies: the artform of creating radical hospitality that infiltrates the heart and culture of the entire church. Complete with techniques and strategic planning throughout, The Art of Hospitality will effectively change how you do church, leaving guests surprised, delighted, and eager to return. The Implementation Guide contains step-by-step implementation strategies for leadership and teams tasked with developing and leading hospitality ministry. Additional components purchased separately include: The Art of Hospitality: A Practical Guide for a Ministry of Radical Welcome Book: Loaded with key principles and methods honed by hospitality experts Debi Nixon and Yvonne Gentile in their work at The Church of the Resurrection, this guide is designed to engage staff across all ministry areas in creating a common language around the ministry of welcome. The Art of Hospitality: Implementation DVD: A supplemental DVD to accompany Implementation with visual training in all areas of hospitality. The Art of Hospitality: Companion Book: Three-chapter book for the congregation as a whole or small groups to coincide with a sermon series in order to prepare the hearts and minds of the people in the pews. This compelling and practical program has been created by two hospitality leaders with credentials to claim their expertise: Debi Nixon is the Executive Director of ShareChurch, and Yvonne Gentile is the Senior Director of Guest Connections at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection—the largest United Methodist Church in the United States with more than 22,000 members and 13,000 average weekly attendees across its campuses.

We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings. This certainly is no longer true in a post-Christian North American culture. Most people in our towns and cities, in the neighborhoods and surrounding countryside of our church properties are completely mystified about who we are, what we do, and who is welcome-or not. Hoffman's inviting prose, which includes many practical proposals, will expand your notions of who hospitality ministers are and why they matter. His own compelling experience suggests that the rewards of our efforts to welcome the stranger will deeply enrich our congregational ministry and our relationships with one another and with God.

Help! I Lead Volunteer Teams At My Church! includes in-depth, ministry specific training manuals for the the following ministries: *Altar Worker Training Manual *Greeter Team Training Manual *Usher Team Training Manual *Small Group Leader Training Manual This Church Volunteer Handbook is a bundle of training manuals. Each handbook provides a way for you to teach your ministry teams and clarify expectations. The manuals will help you lead your teams toward excellence and servanthood. This ministry training manual bundle will provide you and your teams with the instruction you're looking for. A new volunteer at your church may not realize how important each aspect of ministry is at your church. They may not know your vision for the team. The expectations may not be clear to them. However, ministry is too important to be unclear in these areas. Training the ministry workers at your church is not as hard as you might think, and, believe it or not, most volunteers want to receive instruction for the area of ministry they are volunteering in. The importance of making a great first impression cannot be emphasized enough! You know what a difference it can make to be serve others well, it can impact them so much so that it can determine whether or not they ever return. Think of the times where you have been served at a restaurant or store. You may remember the bad experiences more than the good ones. With this training manual bundle you can train each ministry team to meet the various needs of people. Ensuring that adequate training takes place is important! Each of these connections can influence a person's entire worship experience. A handbook provides three things for your church volunteer teams: 1. Accountability - Clearly providing a written ministry handbook gives you something to return to when volunteers seem to be missing the point or not meeting expectations. 2. Articulation - Having a manual allows you to easily share the vision and mission of your ministry with every volunteer at your church. 3. Accomplishment - Written guidelines convey that what you're doing is important, while this may be subtle, providing a manual communicates that you care about your ministry. Of course training your ministry leaders begins with your example of living and modeling what you expect from them. Therefore, I want to help you focus on the relationships you have with your team rather than spending hours and hours creating manuals from scratch. Remove the frustration of coming up with and finding training material for your ministry teams by taking advantage of getting this handbook today! Help! I Lead Volunteer Teams At My Church! is a bundle of four different, customized training manuals for your greeter, usher, prayer, and small group teams. Remove the frustration of coming up with training material for your ministry teams. Plus, included with the Church Volunteer Handbook is a free bonus resource to help you develop new leaders. Each ministry team is a important part to your next weekend gathering or service. Therefore, providing clarity and adequate training for every team is even more important. In order to do a great job, team members need clear instructions. This Church Volunteer Handbook is a bundle of training manuals.

Is your church prepared to respond if natural disaster or human tragedy strikes your community? Jamie Aten and David Boan, codirectors of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute, provide this practical guide for disaster preparedness, filled with resources for emergency planning and crisis management plus best practices for local congregations.