Is your entire church ready for Easter Sunday? You'll make an impression on your guests as soon as they arrive on your campus. They will want to feel welcome — and safe. Here's a four-step plan to make sure you safely connect with your Easter Sunday visitors.
- Provide parking help.
- Ask members to save the best parking spaces for visitors, especially those families bringing small children and senior adults to services.
- Deploy parking lot attendants to provide assistance and keep everyone moving.
- Assign parking lot security monitors to thwart theft and vandalism during services.
- Make first impressions matter.
- Broken curbs and slippery sidewalks can turn visitors off. Assure the entrances to your church are in good repair and cleaned up before every service.
- Greet visitors as soon as they arrive and help them find their way around. Assign church members to walk visitors to their destination.
- Assure that all exterior and interior signage is up-to-date and clear.
- Take good care of their babies.
- Assign additional trained volunteers to serve in children's classrooms to handle the extra visitors during the holiday season.
- Inform visiting parents of your check-in and pick-up procedure.
- Gather food allergy information from parents if you serve food or drinks in your children's services.
- Practice preventive safety.
- Revisit your crisis management plan to ensure it is up-to-date and you are ready for unexpected issues such as severe weather.
- Make sure your leaders know the location of first aid materials and fire extinguishers.
- Post a list of emergency phone numbers, including the church's physical address and a list of individuals in the church who are trained to assist with medical emergencies.
Many of these preventive measures will be invisible to your guests, but they can keep safety concerns from being a distraction during their visit.
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