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Crafting Compelling Church Guides: Engaging Visitors Through History and Human Stories

Discover what makes a good church guide! Learn how to engage visitors by sharing captivating historical and human stories, using clear language, illustrations, and practical tips. Craft guides for leisure visits, family history explorations, and more to enhance visitors' experiences.

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Crafting Compelling Church Guides: Engaging Visitors Through History and Human Stories

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  1. What makes a good church guide? Gabriel Byng ChurchGuides.co.uk

  2. Typical visits • Brief, leisure visits • Often unplanned • Secondary to visiting other sites • Similar visitor profile to NT/EH sites • Usually for historic, rather than spiritual or architectural purposes • Family history or historic ‘celebrity’

  3. Guides • Short guide • Free, very easy to read, well illustrated, a few ‘essentials’ • Long guide • For a fee, could be online only, • Children’s guide • Or – a group guide to several nearby churches

  4. Some tips • Show visitors what to look for • Explain what they can SEE • Site it in history - of Christianity, of Britain and of the parish, from the start to the present day • Tell a HUMAN history - builders, worshippers, priests • No unfamiliar terminology (clear language, short sentences and paragraphs, subheadings, don’t be abstract - give examples) • Use plans and photographs • Tell visitors where they can find out more

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