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Hospitality and Incorporation
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What's 
10 Questions
Every Usher Should Ask - LeadershipJournal.net -
added May 21 2007
Second Impressions - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Charles Arn -
added Aug 31 2006
Conducting Acts of Hospitality - ChristianBibleStudies.com/Scott G
Wilkins - added Feb 24 2006
Accessibility Audit for Local Churches - Iowa Conference, United
Methodist Church - added Feb 24 2006
Get Ready for Company
- Gary McIntosh - added Oct 11 2003
A Visitor's Experience: Five Minutes Makes All the Difference -
Outreach - added Oct 11 2003
There's More to Answering the Phone Than Just "Hello" - Outreach
- added Oct 11 2003
Involving People with
Disabilities - OnLineRev.com - added Apr 05 2003
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NLM Online Resources
Friendliness Goes a Long
Way
- Article/Dave Travis
Hospitality Audit -
Self-Assessment Tool
Hospitality and Fear: The Impact of Fear
Since September 11 - New Life Ministries Report/Steve Clapp and Kristen
Leverton Helbert
How Welcoming Is Your Church? -
Self-Assessment Tool
Ideas
That Word: Inviting and Welcoming New People - Ideas
Keeping People Long-Term - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Keeping People Who Visit - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Loneliness Is Epidemic - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Rate Your Church's Young Adult Friendliness
- Self-Assessment Tool
Strangers
Become Friends - New Life Ministries Report/Steve Clapp & Kristen
Leverton Helbert
Touches, Touches, and More Touches - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Walking People through the Door -
People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr
What Do We Fear? - Self-Assessment Tool
NLM Publications
& Videos
Building a Multicultural Congregation
- G. Edwin Bontrager
The
First Thirty Seconds: A Guide
to Hospitality for Greeters and Ushers
- S. Joan Hershey
Hospitality and the Vital Church
- Video
Hospitality: Life in a Time of
Fear - Steve Clapp and Fred Bernhard
Welcoming New People -
Module
Widening the Welcome of Your Church
- Fred Bernhard and Steve Clapp
NLM Seminars
Hospitality
and the Vital Church
-
Fred Bernhard
Hospitality:
Life without Fear - Fred Bernhard
Other Internet Links
10 Excellent
Ways to Make Sure Visitors Don’t Come Back to Your Church Ever
10 Questions
Every Usher Should Ask - LeadershipJournal.net
A Visitor's Experience: Five Minutes Makes All the Difference -
Outreach
Accessibility Audit for Local Churches - Iowa Conference, United
Methodist Church
Again!
- Tony Pappas
A
Lesson in How to Be Hospitable to Strangers - Net Results/Bill
Easum
A
Place of Welcome - good idea! (Spring 1999) Interview with Ed
Dallow
Accessible
Congregations Campaign - "Access: It Begins in the Heart" -
from the National Organization on Disability
(NOD)
Church
Atmosphere - Leadership Journal (Winter 1999 Theme)
Conducting Acts of Hospitality - ChristianBibleStudies.com/Scott G
Wilkins
From Guest to Disciple: Five Levels of Hospitality
- First Priority/Joel Heck
1.
Practice Hospitality: Family Level - First Priority (Winter 2002)
2.
More Than a Greeting: Congregational Level - First Priority
(Spring 2002)
3.
The Church of Hospitality: Community Level - First Priority
(Summer 2002)
Get Ready for Company
- Gary McIntosh
Helping
Guests Feel at Home - Leadership Journal (Summer 1998)
Hospitality Evangelism: Learn from B&B Owners -
OnMission.com (Jul-Aug 2002)/Eileen Coale
Hospitality
in Warm-Hearted Congregations - Self-Scoring Assessment Tool
How
to Be Inviting through Body Language - Proclaim Good Tidings Chapter
3/Vernard Eller
How to Get 90% of Your Visitors to Join Your Church
- Josh Hunt
How
Welcoming Is Your Congregation [to Persons with Disabilities]? -
Evaluation Checklist
Involving People with Disabilities - OnLineRev.com
Martha
Stewart in the Parsonage? - Leadership Journal (Summer
1999)/Greg Asimakoupoulos
My
First Sunday at Your Church - Leadership Journal (Summer
2001)/Jennifer Smith-Morris
People Who Are Opposed to the Gospel Are Not Opposed to Ice Cream
- Josh Hunt
Reaching
and Connecting - Leadership Journal (Summer 1998 Theme)
Second Impressions - Leadership (Summer 2002)/Charles Arn
A
Sensitive Addition: How We Built Hospitality into a Historic Building
- Your
Church (January/February 1999)/Doug Stephens
Share Your Home, Your Life, Your Lord
- iBelieve.com/Vonette Bright and Barbara Ball
Ten Excellent Ways to
Make Sure Visitors Don’t Come Back to Your Church Ever
Ten Questions
Every Usher Should Ask - LeadershipJournal.net
The Neighborly Evangelism Ministries Story
- Norm Wretlind
There's More to Answering the Phone Than Just "Hello" - Outreach
U.S.
Access Board - a federal agency committed to accessible design
Warm Welcome
or ChurchSpeak?
This page last updated
December 31, 2007
