Everybody Welcome is the complete course to transform your church by improving your approach to newcomers. Believing that welcoming is a ministry for every member of the church, it offers guidance for your entire congregation and will help every individual play their part.

Bob Jackson

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Introduction

Why welcome?

Welcome as a growth strategy

Welcome and the gospel

Welcome and the big picture

Overview: Everybody Welcome in five sessions

Delivering the course

Course components

Formats

How the sessions work

Using the checklists

Using the Members? Manual 

Advance preparation

‘Everybody Welcome’: The Course

Session 1: Discover: making the church more visible

Outline

Leaders’ notes

Pre-reading

Checklists

Session 2: The premises: making them more inviting

Session 3: A welcoming God and his welcoming people

Session 4: Belonging to the church community 

Documents

Session 5: Training a Welcome Team

Aim 

Outline 

Leaders’ notes 

Leaders’ introduction

Additional notes

A: The door welcomer

B: Sidespersons

C: Obtaining people’s contact details

D: Notes on visiting

E: Draft guidelines for a Welcome Team member

F: Exercises

Appendix

Acknowledgements

Anyone attending church should be made to feel welcome, not just by the clergy but by every member of every church. Everybody Welcome is the complete course to transform your church by improving your approach to newcomers. Believing that welcoming is a ministry for every member of the church, it offers guidance for your entire congregation and will help every individual play their part. Based on principles universal to every church, Everybody Welcome's five interactive sessions will help every individual in your church to have a welcoming approach to newcomers, help you identify priorities for decision and practical change, and show how to set up a specialist Welcome Team. To get the most out of the Everybody Welcome course, the leaders' manual can be used alongside the members' manual and DVD.

'A practical tool that will help churches grow ... What makes this especially useful is that it is for ordinary churches, not just for the big and successful ... "Everybody welcome" is written for an Anglican context but it would easily swap across to other churches and denominations ... Many churches will benefit enormously from this straightforward course.' -- Robert Freeman

'A practical tool that will help churches grow ... What makes this especially useful is that it is for ordinary churches, not just for the big and successful ... "Everybody welcome" is written for an Anglican context but it would easily swap across to other churches and denominations ... Many churches will benefit enormously from this straightforward course.'

"Everybody Welcome" is a comprehensive course designed to enhance church welcoming practices. It includes five interactive sessions, a leaders' manual, members' manual, and DVD for effective implementation.

\["For church members wanting to welcome newcomers", "Helps your church improve its approach to visitors", "You will create a friendly community for everyone"\]

This course empowers your church to create a welcoming environment for all.

Everybody Welcome: The Course Leader's Manual

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Everybody Welcome is the complete course to transform your church by improving your approach to newcomers. Believing that welcoming is a ministry for every member of the church, it offers guidance for your entire congregation and will help every individual play their part.

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