Every church has a story to tell about itself, the ministries and the people within it. And some of those stories are not only inspiring and motivational, but in a word “amazing”. But the stories don’t become quite as amazing when they are told by the individual ministries. How can it be that churches with such [...]
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Twenty-five years ago, a mother was concerned about the welfare of her children as they prepared to go off to school.
Instead of being overwhelmed by fear, she decided to pray about it.
Decades later, that prayer has grown into Moms In Touch International.
The group has thousands of members in more than 100 countries.
Read the whole story
I [...]
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Have you thought should be more involved in the community, but didn’t know where to start? Perhaps your church isn’t able to fully take on some community projects because they are just too large in scope to do so. That is understandable…to a point.
“Any way we can show people inside or outside the church that [...]
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So, you put a marketing plan together, even got a budget that didn’t have “shoestring” associated with it, ran your campaign and guess what? It all came together. People have started to flow into your church. And if you have read my past articles, you are saying that you are done and have done the [...]
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My church is having one of its’ biggest events of the year this weekend. It has been in the planning stages for months. As such, there are a bunch of folks going around the church making sure that the experience that people have (many of them for the first time) will be a positive one.
So, [...]
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About 12-14 years ago, I took it upon myself to learn HTML and how to create websites. I had a very basic approach when I was looking for new clients at the time. My “marketing instincts” (kind of a laugh looking back) was to only call on companies that were currently advertising. If you didn’t [...]
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Seemingly, one or two lifetimes ago, I used to create websites. That was well before you had any of the amazing web design tools that are available today. You had to code it by hand.
It was a small shop, started out of my bedroom and eventually got to an office. I would sell the site [...]
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We want to think that churches do a good job of welcoming people, but do we subconsciously undermine that by some of our actions? I think you would be surprised just how often that we do.
If you are a first time visitor to your church, what is it that you see? What are the relevant [...]
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When you put your church’s marketing plan together, you knew that you were on your way to success. But something happened along the way and it isn’t close to where you want it to be. And everyone is looking at you because this was YOUR idea You are wondering yourself what went wrong.
Here are some [...]
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You see the church down the street filling up faster than yours. You and your spouse are at the coffee shop and overhear a couple talking with their friends about the same church. Over and over again, you hear about people loving the services that church is putting on, the new ministry they have just [...]
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