These are ideas and suggestions from people about how the Welcome Teams can operate better. If your idea isn't listed, I apologize and ask you to please tell me again (emails are great because I can flag them to remind me).
Extra garb for extra attention. Several people have suggested aprons for Welcome Team members (guys, think Home Depot-type work aprons, not frilly kitchen aprons). Guy Wenck suggested elf hats for people helping at the Advent Faire, and elf hats were on sale at Dollar General, soooo...
Once a Welcome Team member, always on duty. Bonnie Murphy thinks it's important for people not to have a "I'm not on the Welcome Team this week, so I don't have to be extra welcoming" attitude. What if you were coming to Mt Zion the second time, and the person with the Welcome badge who was so sweet to you the week before acts like he never saw you before in his life? How would you feel?
You want to come in THIS DOOR! Leon Hartman suggested buying a couple "WELCOME!" banners on poles to put up at the entrances we want people to use for an event. Remember, every week we may have one or two or three people who are at Mt Zion for the first time; for special events like the Advent Faire that might be a dozen or more people, and at a wedding or funeral it might be most of the attendees! Leon's concept would be highly mobile and the sort of thing one person could put up and take down quickly (yes, another job for the team leader or worship tech, but it wouldn't be hard). A quick look at websites didn't turn up anything decent, so if anyone knows a local business or a website that does these sort of things, please email jherlocker@me.com.
Untrained does not mean unwilling to serve! Someone mentioned to Deb Herlocker that he hasn't been able to be at a Welcome Team training session, but he thinks it would be great to be on a Sunday Welcome Team because it would let him meet more Mt Zion folks. But nobody ever asks him! So if you know (or if you are) someone like that, email jherlocker@me.com and and I will add his/her/your name to the Welcome Team list.