52 Ways To Ignite Your Congregation | Practical Hospitality (Hammer)

Welcoming Newcomers (without Scaring Them Off)

52 Ways to Ignite Your Congregation: Practical Hospitality is a practical and timely resource for clergy and laity. Randy Hammer offers 52 pointers to assist congregations in extending hospitality to newcomers, making them feel welcome, and taking positive steps to ensure they look forward to returning.

Additionally, 52 Ways to Ignite Your Congregation: Practical Hospitality includes: clever pull-quotes for use in bulletins and newsletters; an appendix of illustrations; questions for discussion and action; an annotated bibliography; and several copy-ready bulletin inserts on various facets of hospitality.

About the Author

Randy Hammer is pastor of United Church, Chapel on the Hill, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He earned his M.Div. from Memphis Theological Seminary and his D.Min. from Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary.

Paperback: 101 pages (5.5 x 8.5 in.)
ISBN 978-0-8298-1825-3
2009