First Impressions Online
2025 Theme: Best Summer Ever
What's included with my free ticket
4-Strategy packed sessions to help you maximize the summer months and prepare for growth
Virtual breakout rooms so you can process with other leaders and pastors like you - learn from and encourage each other!
Downloadable resources (think checklists, toolkits, and guides) so you can start implementing these strategies with your team!
4 Ways to Maximize the Summer Months & Prepare for Growth
The Alert Church.
The World Needs You To Notice Them
Cultivating awareness to notice and meet the needs of summer guests.
Practical ways to develop a guest-first culture through intentional service and hospitality.
Equip your team to serve with intentionality and alertness, creating meaningful guest experiences.
Brainstorm an action item or two you can implement this week so your team is more aware of the guest's experience.
Welcome Home
Creating Environments That Inspire Return Visits
Creating small, intentional moments that leads to long-lasting impact. Pull wisdom from leaders in hospitality and translate their strategies to your church.
Evaluate and improve physical and digital church environments for the summer season.
Conduct a “Welcome Audit” to evaluate your church’s summer-ready spaces and practices.
Hosts That Shine
Equipping Your Volunteer Dream Team
Training volunteers to provide exceptional hospitality before, during, and after summer visits.
The power of play! Re-ignite the joy of serving and the power of community.
Create a “Summer Volunteer Handbook” with clear roles, training resources, and goals... oh, and FUN!
What's Now and What's Next
Strong leaders take time to reflect. Evaluate where you are now - both in your church's season and your own personal season - and what is coming up next. What do you need to do now to prepare you for the next season?
Key questions to ask yourself to effectively evaluate "what's now" & "what's next." Powerful prompts to utilize in your own prayer and reflection to keep yourself healthy and aligned with your goals.
Connect with other leaders. Spend time sharing where you are now and where you are headed. Encourage each other, pray with each other, and share what's helped or harmed you in the same seasons. We don't walk this journey alone.
Quit Striving Alone;
Learn with leaders like you
Hospitality and first impressions can feel like a constant uphill battle. New guest gifts, more greeters, digital connect cards, connect booth, donuts… you get the idea.
However, it doesn’t have to be this way.
Hospitality is not a copy + paste ministry from the church down the road. Hospitality is a reflection of your church’s heart. So the pressure for it to look and feel just like another church can go away.
First Impressions Online is a how-to event
How to create hospitality moments that spur people toward connection
How to host people in a way that genuinely reflects your church’s mission
How to follow-up with guests and invite them back
How to care for yourself and your team in the midst of a very busy role
This is not an event you can miss. The stakes are too high. People are showing up at your church and vowing to never come back. The busyness of Sunday morning is pushing people away.
It’s time to reclaim hospitality.
Intentional. Relational. Sustainable.
Join us at First Impressions Online and we’ll walk through it, together.
