HOSPITALITY AND CHURCHES

Singer John Charles Thomas, at age sixty-six wrote to syndicated columnist Abigail Van Buren:

“I am presently completing the second year of a three-year survey on the hospitality or lack of it in churches. To date, of the 195 churches I have visited, I was spoken to in only one by someone other than an official greeter—and that was to ask me to move my feet.” (Cited by “Eutychus and His Kin,” Christianity Today, June 3, 1977.)684