Get your FREE download of The How to Make a Great First-Time Guest Impression E-Book by Nelson Searcy – all about turning first time guests into fully-developed members of your church.
Seven minutes is all the time you have to make a positive first impression on the first-time guests who walk through your doors. In the first seven minutes of their experience with your church, your guests will decide whether or not they’re going to come back.
When God entrusts you with first-time guests, you face an incredible responsibility. Creating an environment that makes your first-time guests feel both welcomed and respected is key to winning a return visit and beginning the process of assimilating them well. In this brand new e-book, you will learn exactly what goes into an impactful pre-service – and you’ll see how seven minutes is all you need to show your guests just how much you care about them and want them back!
I’ve seen these effects in hundreds of churches over the years, and they’ve led me to learn everything I can about effective and God-honoring staffing, to be a good steward of the opportunity I have in leading my staff.
In this 25-page PDF E-Book, you will learn:
- How to examine your pre-service experience from the perspective of your first-time guests
- The critical four-step, pre-service process to influence your guests: Greeted, Directed, Treated and Seated
- The one quality you should seek in all your pre-service volunteers
- What “raving fan” service is and what you can learn from the business side of customer service
- How to overcome the skepticism you will face from first-time guests
- And much more!
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Meet Dr. Nelson Searcy
Nelson Searcy is the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. By God’s grace, he identified and developed the Eight Systems of a Healthy Church® that he has used to coach over 3,500 churches in the US and around the world to adapt those eight systems to their unique ministry fields, resulting in great health and growth.
Nelson regularly coaches pastors online and in-person through the Church Leader Insights and Renegade Pastors Network ministries that he founded. He also leads several annual pastor in-person conferences and online training events. In ministry for more than 25 years, Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as “The 50 Most Influential Churches” and “The 25 Most Innovative Leaders.”
He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 20+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry, The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, and Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests Into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church. Nelson is the recipient of the prestigious Donald A. McGavran Award for Outstanding Leadership in Great Commission Research.
He is a longtime student of church history, especially mastering the areas of evangelism and church growth. He divides his time between NYC and South Florida. He battled Stage 4 cancer and has been cancer-free since 2018, praise God! He has an amazing wife, Kelley, and a teenage son, Alexander, who continues to grow in so many ways.
