To send for or call someone to come and meet/receive them; to summon someone in order to welcome or fetch them.
急病の父のために医者を呼び迎えた。
They sent for and welcomed a doctor for their suddenly ill father.
村では年長者が若者を呼び迎えて行事を始めた。
In the village, elders called in the young people and began the ceremony.