Welcoming Training
United Methodist Communications and the Northwest Texas Conference will be working together to bring a variety of training opportunities to the churches within NWTX Conference.
The Communications Ministry Training Program is a partnership of Untied Methodist Communications and the Annual Conferences of The United Methodist Church. Together, we will bring training to local churches in seven areas: Local Church Communications, Web Ministry, Our United Methodist Connection and Promotion of Giving, Rethink Church, Media Spokesperson and Crisis Communications, Welcoming and Local Church Marketing.
The Conference Communications Office will be working to put together a training team that will be available to conduct trainings throughout the Conference. We will be seeking requests for the various trainings and will work with districts to determine where and when to conduct trainings.
Highlights from the various trainings will be included in the NWTX Review and on the Conference website, www.nwtx.org.
Information about training sessions will be shared as it becomes available.
Below is a brief description of Welcoming Ministry.
Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless – cheerfully.
Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God’s words; if help, let it be God’s hearty help. That way, God’s bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he’ll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything – encores to the end of time.
Oh, yes!
1 Peter 4:7-11, The Message
The purpose of Welcoming Ministry training is to enable every United Methodist church to have a welcoming ministry that effectively extends a welcome to visitors, guests, newcomers, seekers, members and the community all the time.
Lay and clergy members will adopt a welcoming lifestyle and serve as model leaders to develop a welcoming ministry in their congregations within two months of receiving training.
Main points covered in this training are:
- A welcoming ministry is foundational to every ministry of the local church.
- Welcoming is a lifestyle.
- Welcoming is everyone’s responsibility.
- Everyone should be welcomed every time, not just the first time.
- Welcoming extends into the community and worldwide Web.
Welcoming Ministry training will be offered at 2010 Roundup Aug. 7 in Lubbock.
