
How to Train Church Greeters to Truly Welcome Visitors
Every week families arrive at church. They walk through the main doors and head down familiar paths toward “their” seat.
In our fragmented world today, we rarely have 81% of American’s doing similar things. There are so many choices for an online platform! And the internet has given us access to all the choices.
It used to be that we’d have commonality in what we watched when we had limited channels to watch. Now, I don’t even look at 90% of my TV channels. And on top of that, we have Hulu, Discovery+, Netflix, and the list goes on and on.
With social media we used to assume that “everyone” was on Facebook. But according to the latest Pew survey of Americans (2021), there are only 69% on that channel. Instagram has 40%, Pinterest 31%, with LinkedIn at 28% (the sampling was big enough to have a plus/minus of 2.9%).
But which online platform saw an 8% growth (since 2019) to a whopping 81% of American’s using it? Google-owned YouTube (across all demographics). 18-29 year olds were at 95% using YouTube!
New to the Pew study? Snapchat was 65% and TikTok at 21%. Here’s what the church can learn:
Every week families arrive at church. They walk through the main doors and head down familiar paths toward “their” seat.
When a legal expert asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” it followed the command to “love your neighbor as yourself.”
The kids will soon be back in school, your fall church programs will launch, and a new season will be
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