Hospitality at Church

Online Course

In today’s world, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere is crucial for fostering community and growth within your church. This course will explore the essential elements of hospitality, with a focus on high-quality coffee as a powerful tool for engagement and connection.

Throughout this course, you will learn strategies for welcoming newcomers and creating a sense of belonging, as well as the importance of uplifting experiences that encourage members to return. We will cover practical tips on how to serve excellent coffee, set up inviting spaces, and develop a culture of hospitality that resonates with both visitors and existing members.

Course Outline

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    The Importance of Hospitality: Highlights the critical role hospitality plays in church settings.

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    High-Quality Coffee: Serves as a focal point for creating connections and enhancing the church experience.

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    Welcoming Atmosphere: Emphasizes the need for a warm, inviting environment to make newcomers feel comfortable.

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    Genuine Connections: Illustrates how simple acts, like sharing coffee, can lead to meaningful relationships and spiritual growth.

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    Breaking Down Barriers: Addresses how quality service can make the church experience less intimidating for visitors.

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    Community Engagement: Encourages leveraging hospitality as a tool for church growth and fostering community.

What’s inside

This course is for you if you are responsible for the coffee station at your local church? Or if you are part of a local church and want to help improve the way you serve the growing community. Nick & Linda Castle, Co-founders of CLO Coffee bring you short videos to inspire you and equip you with your cafe area.

Module 1: The Opportunity

Grab the opportunity that is creating a good coffee experience at church to grow community and create a warm welcome.

Module 2 & 3: Stories & New Guests

Nick & Linda share some real stories from their experience running 5 cafes across Leeds and how lives were positively impacted.

Then we move into looking at putting yourself into the shoes of a new guest at church. See things through their eyes.

Module 4 & 5: Your Team & Top Tips

Your team need to operate in their best positions. Matching their gifts to the tasks needed to create a good coffee experience.

We follow this up with some top tips for creating a cafe area. We back this up with a free downloadable course PDF with more top tips.

Church Hospitality Tier
Free

As a Church Hospitality Tier member, you will receive access to everything in the this Tier as well as access to the private learning community for other leaders of Church hospitality.

✺ Frequently asked questions ✺

  • This course is free to anyone, but is ultimately aimed at people who are in charge of the cafe area in their local church.

  • This course is free. You just need to create an online account login to access it.

  • The course is around 20 minutes. It is made up of 5 chapters with short videos in each

  • Yes, you can download the Course PDF to give even further ideas and tips for creating a good coffee experience at your church.

  • If you have any technical issues, please just drop us a line by email

  • We have a dedicated website for Church Coffee resources here