Over the past few months, many EOORC communities of faith have received a visit from a “Mystery Guest.” The Mystery Guest appears as a visitor in your community of faith. This special visitor can give you feedback about his/her/their experience at your community of faith. Did anyone say hello to the visitor? Could the visitor find your service time? The Mystery Guest will report back about these and more questions, helping you to customise your welcome to future visitors. I sat down with one...
Author: Natalie Matkovsky
When have you experienced a wonderful welcome at church? How can we provide a warm welcome to those who visit our congregations? What are some practical steps we can take? These are questions that we have been exploring in EOORC. Our winter educational event had a theme of "Strengthening the Invitation." The Regional Council produced a helpful checklist for communities of faith to complete. A "mystery visitor" will be visiting each and every congregation in EOORC to help give feedback...
