I have been asked these questions several times in the last few weeks: "Why are we painting the lobby? Why are we building a new welcome center? Why did we change the format of the bulletin?" I respond with a smile (most of the time) and ask them the question: "Why wasn't this done before?"
As a staff, we are trying to be more intentional with our first time guests that come into our facility. We have asked ourselves these tough questions: "Is our welcome center noticeable or are people sitting on it (literally)? The information/details that we put in the bulletin, is it needed? The color of the walls, is it inviting or does it remind people of the 1970's?"
We have addressed some of these questions, but we still have a long way to go. The question that exists now is whether our members and regular attenders will get passionate about bringing their friends, co-workers and neighbors to experience a church that is trying to be intentional with them.
