Over the last few years, churches have become very good at welcoming systems - name tags, check-in flows, connection cards, follow-up processes.

But here’s the uncomfortable question: Have we become organised… but not warm?

Today we’re talking about welcoming teams, and why relationships - not numbers - must be the hero.

Scott Sanders sits down with Amber Edmonds (MBM Parramatta) to talk about follow-up - thinking deeply about how churches welcome people as individuals, not projects - and how training, theology, and culture shape that welcome across the whole church.

Toolbox:

• ⁠Secret Shopper Evaluation⁠ - Reach Australia
• ⁠People Are the Mission⁠: How Churches Can Welcome Guests Without Compromising the Gospel - Danny Franks

• ⁠Welcoming In Action⁠ - Video Episode with Kellyville Anglican

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