Serving as a Church Greeter

For:
*Individual use
*Group training

Greeters are the welcoming arms that people long to find in a church. This practical guidebook will help you reach out to people who need to experience the warmth of belonging to a church family.

Serving as a Church Greeter sheds light on
*The Ministry of Church Greeters
*The Need for Warmhearted Greeters
*Developing a User-Friendly Foyer
*A Better Way of Doing Things
*The Parking Lot Ministry

Zondervan Practical Ministry Guides provide you with simple, practical insights for serving in today's churches. Written by experienced pastors and church workers, these easy-to-read, to-the-point booklets address the fundamentals of different ministries as practiced effectively in real life. You'll find biblical insight and wise, field-tested advice you can apply today, as well as discussion questions to help you think through and integrate what you read.

This new edition of The Greeter's Manual deals with those who are often the first people one encounters at church--the greeters (not the pastor or a musician or even an usher). Here are the whys and wherefores of effective greeters, whether a church is large or small.

Paul E. Engle, series editor for Counterpoints Church Life, is an ordained minister who served for twenty-two years in pastoral ministry in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan. He is an adjunct teacher in several seminaries in this country and internationally. He serves as associate publisher and executive editor in the Church, Academic, and Ministry Resources team at Zondervan. He and his wife Margie, live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Dr. Leslie Parrott was for sixteen years, the president of Olivet College, Kankakee, Illinois, and was formerly the successful minister of a large church in Portland, Oregon. He had advanced degrees in the art of communication and in theology. He was the author of numerous books. Dr. Leslie Parrott por 16 anos fue el presidente de Olivet College, Kankakee, Illinois, formalmente fue el ministro acertado de una iglesia grande en Portland, Oregon, el tiene grados avanzados en el arte de la comunicacion y en teologia. el es el autor de numerosos libros.