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The First Time Visitor

It is time we start realizing that the First-Time Visitor is more than just a part of the announcements.How welcomed and valuable do you think the First Time Visitor will feel if we say, Sorry, I almost forgot, if this is your first time here please raise your hands, we would like to welcome you to our service!

The Visitor is your Opportunity to grow the church.
In the business world you need opportunities to do business in order to do business. In the church world you need visitors to grow the church.

The First Time Visitor is a valuable and important part of ministry.

We hope that they will see enough and hear the Word and realize that this is where God has called them.
Some may be in tune enough to know this is it!

But mostly others will walk out the church doors and have the weight of the world and the craziness of life distract them and overwhelm them so much to forget how good they felt and how powerful the message was. So its so important that we do what we can to seek and save those who are lost, floating around and not connected to a local body. The visitor is the reason the doors are opened. We want visitors to come but once they come we want to make sure we do everything possible to help them see that they should come back and stay. First we want to do everything in our power to provide a means for them to come.

Here is a question I am going to ask you.
If I was a visitor why should I come to your church?

Write down 5 reasons.
Are they good enough?

Here is another question I am going to ask.
If I was a visitor why would I not want to come to your church?

Write down 5 possibilities you can think of.

A first time visitor only has one visit to determine whether they want to come back for a second time. If you only have one chance to let them see the full impact of your ministry than what are you showing them?

Are you showing them that your church has an atmosphere of love and acceptance?
Are you showing them that the can fit in here?
Are they seeing that they can be included?
Or do they feel that they were never really welcomed at all.