Description
Book SynopsisA practical guide to the crucial role of visiting in the life of a church----a role that has grown even more important in an age when so many do not regularly attAnd church services. Presented here are 14 different forms of visiting, to reach both within the church congregation and in the community at large.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
Step One: The Persons
1 A Joyful Invitation 3
2 Choosing Whom to Visit 9
3 An Amazing Mission 15
Step Two: Ways of Visiting
4 Visiting Possibilities 25
5 Personal Visiting 31
6 Visiting in Gatherings 42
7 Special Ways of Visiting 47
Step Three: The Best Timing
8 A Simple Approach 59
9 Life Stages and Celebrative Events 68
Step Four: Your Gifts for Visiting
10 Gifts and Graces 79
11 Training and Praying 86
12 Suggestions for Visiting 92
13 Excellent Sprinters, Solid Marathon Runners 102
Step Five: Building Your Mission
14 Your Visiting Outreach 109
15 The Congregation’s Witness 118
16 The Pastor Visits 128
17 Sacrament and Cloud 135
