Hospitality Toolkit
Design Process
1. Assess: Parish Hospitality & Welcoming
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Part 1. Assess: Parish Hospitality & Welcoming
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Option 1. Assessment Tool on Parish Hospitality & Welcoming - Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis
Option 2. Hospitality 101: Ideas and Assessment
Option 3. Hospitality Formation PowerPoint with Four Part Evaluation - Diocese of Scranton
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Part 2. Explore: Hospitality & Welcoming
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1. Read: Becoming an Inviting Church - Paulist Evangelization Ministries
Each section deals, in a concise way, with key issues and basic points involved in reaching one or another cohort in today’s world. Together, the essays amount to an array of ideas and resources that every parish can use in its ordinary pastoral life. Chapters include: Inviting our Parishioners, Inviting Families, Inviting Young Adults, Inviting Seekers, Inviting Inactive Catholics, Inviting Latinos, Inviting Youth, and Inviting Seniors.
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2. Watch and Discuss: The Committee: Hospitality
The Committee follows Park Grove Community Church, a make-believe urban U.S. congregation, which has lost its pastor and is closing its doors, unless it reinvents itself. The Committee members struggle with understanding the true meaning of hospitality. Does your church have a heart for hospitality? Use the study guide process (in PDF and online):
The Committee Study Guide: Hospitality
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3. Training for the Ministry of Hospitality - Office for Parish Life
This comprehensive guide includes both a theology and a spirituality of hospitality. It also encompasses a training for ushers and greeters, an array of other formal ministries of hospitality, suggestions for creating a culture of hospitality throughout the parish, an understanding of the role a parish plant plays in hospitality, a song list, prayers and a bibliography. This can be used for ministry training, retreats and workshops. It will expand everyone's thinking and practice in practical ways. 
4. Go Deeper toward a Welcoming Congregation - Paul Wadell
In a world that has grown frighteningly guarded and harsh, Christian congregations are called to imitate the “table manners” of Jesus by being sacraments of God’s hospitality in the world. How do we become these kinds of congregations in the Church and for the world today? | |||
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Part 3. Review: Practices and Ideas for Hospitality & Welcoming
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Hospitality: Rolling Our the Welcome Mat - Archdiocese of St. Paul Minneapolis
Keys for Welcoming Catholics back to the Table - John and Therese Boucher
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Moving with Hospitality - Archdiocese of Dubuque
7 Ways to Help Unchurched Guests Feel Welcome without Selling Out - Rich Birch Hospitality Ideas - Lewis Center for Church Leadership Welcoming Ideas - Lewis Center for Church Leadership 5 Tips for Welcoming Church Visitors - Video |
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Welcoming New Members Practices & Ideas
Top 10 Learnings about Welcoming Newcomers by Keith Anderson Welcoming Newcomers to Your Congregation - Jessica Duckworth 50 Ways to Welcome New People - Lewis Center for Church Leadership |
Part 4. Plan: Develop a Parish Plan for Hospitality & Welcoming
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Action Plan for Welcoming & Hospitality
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