Everybody's Job

We have to choose our battles in life.  It’s impossible for everyone to be good at everything.  In fact, it's impossible for anyone to be good at everything.  The same is true for organizations like FCC. Try as we might, it’s impossible for a church to do everything with complete excellence.  We have to choose what we’re called to focus on. At FCC, we have chosen to be a church that is excellent at welcoming guests and visitors.  We have decided that God is calling us to be great at letting people know that they are welcome and wanted here. And we’ve invested heavily into being great at it.

Over the last couple of years we have formalized the welcome process.  We have established teams of people who are trained and commissioned to greet people.  We recently held a welcome training workshop to equip people. We even have a new Welcome Center where guests can stop and receive a gift.  But let’s be crystal clear about this: welcoming people to FCC is everybody’s job.  That unfamiliar person standing in the Commons after the service is your responsibility.  The man or woman you don’t recognize isn’t waiting for a welcome team member to say hello.  That man or woman is waiting for you to say hello.  This job belongs to all of us.