Welcoming the Stranger: Uncovering the True Power of Greeters Ministry We weren’t able to create a summary for you. Refresh your page to try again. They are gracious and hospitable, love to smile and talk with people. You will arrive 20-30 minutes before Mass to ensure that all is ready. They are gracious and hospitable, love to smile and talk with people. You will arrive 20-30 minutes before Mass to ensure that all is ready. The document outlines clear responsibilities for greeters , including how to welcome visitors, initiate conversation, listen actively, answer questions, be sensitive to timing, and gather basic information. The first part of this wisdom stands firmly in the conviction that the guest is to be welcomed as Christ. This forms a culture of avoiding the distinctions of rich vs. Church Greeters with Bibles. Greeterministry is at the core of your welcome experience: Greeting people at the door, Greeting people at a welcome center. Greeting people during the worship service. Your greeting of welcome is the first wish that “The Lord be with you!” Yours is the word that welcomesthestranger to be at home, or the silence that makes of our assembly a foreign land. Yours is the task of discretion: knowing how to welcome Treat the ministry as a major ministry of the church. In some churches, the greeters’ ministry has second-class status.
