The General Meeting Night - Part 3 - Greeters

One way we can help make the newcomer feel at home is to have greeters. It's a good idea to have greeters stationed at any door that participants come in. That way everyone who attends Celebrate Recovery will have someone say hello to them as they enter.

Greeters don't just make the newcomer feel welcome though, they also get to serve. Lots of people come to Celebrate Recovery and they are ready and willing to serve. When someone first comes to Celebrate Recovery they may not be ready to get super involved in service or become leaders, but they can serve. In fact, newcomers can serve as greeters the very first night they attend. Use your discretion on this, but if someone comes and wants to serve, hand them a stack of bulletins and tell them where to stand and how to greet.

How to greet? Really? Do we need to tell people how to greet? In my experience, yes. We do.

We've had greeters that sing songs as people come in, want to hand out candy, and stop people to chat as they come in. This can be distracting and cause people to feel uncomfortable. We tell our greeters to hand out a bulletin, smile and say, "Welcome to Celebrate Recovery." That's it.

Having greeters makes a huge difference to newcomers and gives people a service opportunity. 

How have you seen greeters make a difference at your Celebrate Recovery?

Johnny

Comments

[Alison]

Greeters are essential to our CR! Having someone smile, say welcome and get a name badge for the newcomers and regulars sets the tone. We have a Greeter captain and she has several on her team. As TEAM members we love having this part taken care of so that we can be available for whatever may arise.