https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome en-us 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC 2026-04-08 15:57:52 UTC hello@padlet.com steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241857 We are restarting our I*W*C program and I'm hoping to get some new ideas about connecting with new and old-comers.]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241857 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241858 We've had quarterly Welcome coffees" with our rector and IWC rep to welcome and be sure they had been eithered offered or become involved with our ministries. We arelive streaming and used outside services throughout the pandemic. God has blessed us in many ways!]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241858 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241859 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241859 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241860 My favorite Hymn: "Lord of All Hopefulness"]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241860 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241861 Right now we're sending a dozen cookies from a local cookie place to newcomers, with a message. That's been much appreciated.

]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241861 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241862 Personal welcome from usher at the front door.

Bread gift welcome ministry

Follow-up call]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241862 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241863 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241863 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241864 Handwritten name tags at services; Welcome Table at main entrance]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241864 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241866 We have a Newcomer Gathering (with outdoor lunch when possible) 3-4 times a year. We invite recent newcomers + a few parishioners to get to know each other. ]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241866 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241867 The Welcome Bag contains: St. Mary's mug, stationery, prayer cross, heart rock, a welcome letter from the rector, schedule.]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241867 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241868 The invitation is an additional contact, even if the invitation is not accepted. If the invitation is accepted, clergy can be visible in a neighborhood place in addition to meeting with the new visitor.]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241868 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241869 Have been offering all 4 daily offices 7 days  a week via Facebook actually started b4 the pandemic]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241869 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241870 Have a welcome gift to give during the service when we have new parishoners.]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241870 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241871 accompany over to the coffee hour - share new person with Sr Warden and Rector

]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241871 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241872 Inviting newcomers to a breakfast so they can get to know parishioners and the parishioners newcomers.

Creating an Icon writing offering to connect people.  Available to all.  Separate spaces during Covid.

]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241872 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241873 We have beehives on our campus that parishioners tend to. We give newcomers little bottles of our Saint Stephen's honey!]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241873 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241876 Released during stewardship focus period but really shows life at Christ Church Brampton. This past year we had a drive-by/drop-off for one of our local ministry partners tying the theme to action.]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241876 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241878 Welcome Spot at the exterior front door, Online coffee hour, eliminated ushers and the hosts now invite to communion, called members to check in for the first year

]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241878 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241879 The Welcome Bar in our narthex! (We also started hikiing groups that could meet outdoors during the pandemic.)

]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241879 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241880 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241880 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241881 We have a very outgoing Archdeacon who visits new attendees and has a list of questions for them.  He prioritizes listening rather than talking about the church.

]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241881 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241882 From michael Farrimond to All Panelists 03:17 PM
Encourage parishioners to, on Sunday morning, before you talk to someone you know, talk to someone you don’t know

]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241882 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241883 We are working on a welcome bag with a newcomer's guide, a notebook, the Book of Common Prayer, and a travel mug- the idea being that we love people, so we prepare them. The hope is that they can just grab their bag and join us for church. I am holding coffee shop office hours for people who have joined since 2020 to provide an opportunity for feedback and reflections on their experience to inform the Newcomer's Guide ]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241883 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241884 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241884 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241885 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241885 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241886 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241886 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241887 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241887 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241888 We announce every Sunday the availability of a Bottle Pax that includes a pair of socks, crackers, water bottle and card from the church to be distributed to homeless who are begging on street corners. We also encourage slipping a couple of $ into the rubberbanded pax. We announce we would like visitors to take one to keep in their car to distribute. We keep these in large containers by our two main points of entry. Visitors have commented positively about this ministry and even handed us some money to support it. Started in January, 2022 and have distributed over 150 Bottle Pax to date.]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241888 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241890 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241890 steve824 https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241891 E]]> 2025-01-30 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/steve824/InviteWelcomeConnect_Welcome/wish/3310241891