{"id":32822,"date":"2022-09-10T16:24:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episodes-41-how-are-american-protestant-churches-welcoming-their-guests\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:24:34","slug":"episodes-41-how-are-american-protestant-churches-welcoming-their-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episodes-41-how-are-american-protestant-churches-welcoming-their-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Episodes 41: How are American Protestant Churches Welcoming Their Guests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6641\"> http:\/\/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com\/podcasts\/keepasking\/EP48_KEEPASKING.mp3<\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: Play in new window &#8211; Download<\/p>\n<p>The Lifeway Research team discusses ways churches welcome guests.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>96% have an opportunity to meet the pastor after the service.<\/li>\n<li>95% have greeters at the entrances.<\/li>\n<li>83% have cards guests are asked to complete.<\/li>\n<li>78% have a central location where guests can learn about the church.<\/li>\n<li>69% set aside time during the service for regular attenders to welcome guests.<\/li>\n<li>65% periodically host an information session for new people to learn more about the church.<\/li>\n<li>44% have books in the pews for all attenders to indicate they were present that collects visitor information.<\/li>\n<li>42% have gifts for guests.<\/li>\n<li>24% have greeters or attendants in the parking lot.<\/li>\n<li>17% ask guests to stand in the worship service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also:<br \/> Greeters and Gifts: How Churches Welcome Guests \u2013 Lifeway Research<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to Tweet your questions and comments to us: @LifewayResearch and individually: @smcconn, @statsguycasey, and @lizettebeard. Join us next time for another edition of Keep Asking.<\/p>\n<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-thumbnails'>\n<h3>Related posts:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yarpp-thumbnails-horizontal\">  The New Front Door to Your Church  Churches Still Recovering From Pandemic Losses  How to Best Connect with Church Guests (on Their Terms) <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com\/podcasts\/keepasking\/EP48_KEEPASKING.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window &#8211; Download The Lifeway Research team discusses ways churches welcome guests. 96% have an opportunity to meet the pastor after the service. 95% have greeters at the entrances. 83% have cards guests are asked to complete. 78% have a central location where guests can learn about the church. 69% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episodes-41-how-are-american-protestant-churches-welcoming-their-guests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episodes 41: How are American Protestant Churches Welcoming Their Guests?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}