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Your Christmas Checklist

2016 December 14
by Diocesan Staff

Prepare the way of the Lord by taking steps now to make sure your congregation is ready to welcome visitors this Christmas. A little attention to these Invite-Welcome-Connect concerns will have you ready to greet newcomers:

Website and Facebook
List any special Advent and Christmas liturgies on your website. Also add this schedule to your Facebook page and then “pin the post” so that that schedule information stays at the top of your Facebook feed. Do this by first creating and posting the information, then click on the downward V in the top right hand corner of the post and select “Pin to Top of Page.” That will keep the information at the top even when you add new Facebook posts. After Christmas, click on the same V and select to unpin the post. To make the Facebook information more eye-catching, you can use the free video I created with Acts 8: Your free parish Christmas invitation video is ready

Answering Machine and Phone
Add the Christmas liturgies to your answering machine message now through Christmas Day. Then on Christmas Eve, best practice is to have someone answering the phone from a couple of hours before the service until the liturgy begins in case someone calls at the last minute looking for directions or to confirm the time.

Narthex
Clean up any bulletin boards and tables with information. Make sure that everything is current and that the latest printed information is available, in case a visitor wants to pick up a newsletter or other information.
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Newsletter and Announcement Reminder
In the remaining Sundays prior to Christmas, list in the newsletter or bulletin a reminder to ask parishioners to recall that we greet guests as if greeting Christ. If people you don’t recognize are nearby, after the liturgy, all they have to say is, “Hi, My name is _____. I don’t believe we have met.” Then just welcome them and if a newcomer, ask them to come back. At Christmas, we can all get so focused on the occasion and family gathered round, that it is easier to think we are being friendly, while failing to welcome the guest.

Looking for more than the basics, see the Welcome Ideas and Resources Page at invitewlecomeconnect.com

peace,
Frank
The Rev. Canon Frank Logue, Canon to the Ordinary

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