How to Create a Community That's Welcome and Connects the Outside Around

The way you do your services will communicate something. Constantly sharing stories is just a practical way to help encourage and celebrate the vision of life together. There's obviously going to be differences among us in our practice and beliefs about baptism and the Lord's supper but both of them really are key opportunities to cast a vision for and then share together in Christian community together. How effectively does our community welcome and integrate Christians and new believers into membership?