welcoming Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/welcoming/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 04:11:53 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://journeyonline.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Journey-Logo-With-UCA-logo_Site-identity_Artboard-2_Artboard-2-copy-32x32.png welcoming Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/welcoming/ 32 32 Stranger danger: creating welcoming church communities https://journeyonline.com.au/features/stranger-danger-creating-welcoming-church-communities/ https://journeyonline.com.au/features/stranger-danger-creating-welcoming-church-communities/#respond Sun, 04 Sep 2016 01:14:58 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=21705 Someone new walks into church. You’re torn between maintaining a polite distance and asking them around for lunch and afternoon Bible study. Dianne Jensen talks to two quite different Uniting Churches about welcoming newcomers. Stepping through the church door can be a scary business. The jargon and rituals are unnerving—and that’s before someone is invited ...

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