Welcome to Worship

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Welcome to Worship
Process

• The Four Stages

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Welcome to Worship
Process

• Discover
• Experience
• Belong
• Contribute

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Welcome to Worship
Process

• Discover
• Experience
• Belong
• Contribute

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Discover
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• Early encounters through
• The Programme
• Occasional and special services
• Personal Contacts
• Image, publicity, and marketing

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Discover
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Process

• Early encounters through
• The Programme
• Occasional and special services
• Personal Contacts
• Image, publicity, and marketing

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Discover
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Process
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The Programme
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Discover
Process

• Groups and Ministries
• Hall User Groups
• Events and community contacts

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Special Services
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Discover
Process

• Weddings
• Baptisms
• Funerals
• Memorials

• Christmas
• Mothering Sunday
• Harvest Sunday
• Back to Church Sunday
• Parade Services

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Plant and Publicity
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Discover
Process

• Website
• Noticeboard
• Magazine
• Invite cards
• Local Media

• Church grounds
• Car park
• Disabled access
• Building exterior
• Route inside

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Personal Contacts
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Process
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• Clergy via occasional offices etc
• Visiting
• Lay family and friends
• Involvement in the programme
• Specials e.g. Back to Church Sunday

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Experience
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• Early attendance at worship events
• Immediate welcome
• Relevant worship
• Attractive premises
• Friendship offered

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Experience
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• Early attendance at worship events
• Immediate welcome
• Relevant worship
• Attractive premises
• Friendship offered

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Experience
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Experience
Process

• FRESH EXPRESSION
• or
• EXISTING SERVICE

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Experience
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Experience
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• When attending for the 1st or 2nd time

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Experience
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Experience
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• First Welcome
• Worship Experience
• Children
• After the Service

• Entrance
• Worship Space
• Toilets, Kitchen, Social
• Special needs

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Experience
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First Welcome
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Experience
Process

• Smiles, Handshakes?
• Training offered?
• Explain the book and literature pile?
• Showing to seats
• Linking up newcomers

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Worship Experience
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Experience
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• Welcoming style
• Clear announcements
• Holy Communion / Collection / Peace
• Music Quality
• Relevant sermon
• Space for God

• Reality shines through
• Friendly but deep
• Range of styles
• Allow for diversity
• Coherent whole
• Meaning imparted

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Children
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Experience
Process

• Clear options
• Happy bag culture
• Involved and valued
• Groups well-resourced
• Baby-change facilities
• Equal partners

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After the Service
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Experience
Process

• Welcome team at work
• Friendship offered
• Welcome pack / DVDs
• Contact info
• Next step sensitivity

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Entrance
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Experience
Process

• Clearly indicated?
• Warm and attractive
• Smells and clutter
• Easy to see in?

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Worship space
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Experience
Process

• Lighting
• Heating
• Draughts
• Seating comfort
• Well cared for?
• Relaxed atmosphere

• Any seat-owners?
• Loop
• Sound
• Screens
• Data Projector

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Toilets, kitchen, social
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Experience
Process

• Signage?
• Clean?
• Modern?
• Enough Toilets?
• Quality of food and drink?
• Free?

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Special needs
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Experience
Process

• Large Print
• Loop
• Language Groups
• Wheelchair spaces
• Non-readers
• Blind-aware

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Welcome Team at Work
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• Trained Team
• Whole Community
• BOTH ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT!

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Belong
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• From their church to my church
• Making friends
• Meeting God
• Joining Groups
• Finding Faith

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Belong
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• From their church to my church
• Making friends
• Meeting God
• Joining Groups
• Finding Faith

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Belong
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Belong
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Friendship
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Belong
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• Contact details visit, phone, write, text,
  email, etc
• Bob especially likes Facebook!
• Help people find friends
• Newcomers Events
• Follow up the uncertain and the drifters

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Community
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Belong
Process

• Invite to future services and social events
• Help to join a small group
• Church trips and weekends
• Emotional, social, and spiritual needs start
  being met

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Nurture
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Belong
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• Offering a nurture course
• Confirmation group
• 1-1 discipleship
• Bring to a commitment point

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Moving on
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Belong
Process

• Bringing friends
• Finding a first role in church life
• 6 month review

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Contribute
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• Regular contributor to the worship experience
• Maturing in faith
• Growing in discipleship
• Developing a ministry
• Welcoming others
• Changing the Church

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Contribute
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Process

• Regular contributor to the worship experience
• Maturing in faith
• Growing in discipleship
• Developing a ministry
• Welcoming others
• Changing the Church

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The Regular Worshipper
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Contribute
Process

• At one or other Fresh Expression or Service
• Maturing in Faith
• Contributing Gifts
• Developing Ministries
• Welcoming Others
• Changing the Church

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Contribute
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Contribute
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The result?
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• The Kingdom of Heaven

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