The Spirituality of Welcoming by Dr. Ron Wolfson is an eye opening realistic approach to making your Congregation into a viable, welcoming House of God. A must read for all Board and lay people of congregations.
Follow up with Study Sessions to organize all thoughts and ways to impliment ideas.

This book provides a very "nuts and bolts" approach to the issue of integrating new members to a congregation as well as consolidating relationship with all members. Great resource, not only for synagogues, but for other faith communities as well.

Ron Wolfson accomplishes a very difficult task in this book. He writes a "how to" book that will help synagogue leaders improve the quality of their "products." Drawing heavily (but not too visibly) on the organizational dynamics literature he shows us how to change the way synagogues relate to their members and their prospective members. By using a pre-existing literature on how organizations in general can become better places to work and to do business with, he gently transposes employees and customers to the synagogue's staff (including rabbis and cantors) and its members. He studies the Christian mega-churches and the Jewish Chabad Lubavitch movement to understand and illuminate how to make a spiritually-based organization work well. In the process he puts together a package, based on the decade-long Synagogue 2000 project, that provides practical guidance on what synagogues can do to make themselves more spiritual, more attractive, and more successful with their members.

Ron Wolfson writes beautifully & the book is very informative. I am now a believer in the spirituality of welcoming! I used some of his techniques when hosting a woman at Shabbat services a few weeks ago. She emailed me later saying she felt welcome at our synagogue.
This book helps you realize being welcoming is not for only the shul - but for everywhere you go, in every aspect of life. I look forward to making my classroom a welcoming space when I start teaching!

This book is an inspiration. Ron Wolfson presents excellent ideas to change the synagogue (or church) to become a more welcoming, engaging and spiritually uplifting place of worship. Anyone who cares about their religious community can learn from this.