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Youth Ministry for Big People

Recently we had an entry about Rob Bell and his church that’s attracting mostly twentysomethings. Many of the comments focused on demographic strategies, and whether or not churches should target ...

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How a Church Responds to Theft

Shortly after a thief broke into Oconee Baptist Church in Bishop, Ga. and stole an amplifier and four guitars, the church’s sign expressed how the church felt about the break-in: ...

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What’s Working in Church?

Colin Sedgwick is the pastor of Lindsay Park Baptist Church in Kenton, Middlesex and wrote a column for the Guardian suggesting how churches can reverse the decline in attendance. He ...

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The Comeback of Mainline Churches

A three-year study on mainline congregations that’s scheduled to end in 2006 is showing a surprising resurgence in certain mainline congregations. “Most people think mainline Protestant churches are dead,” says ...

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Real Time Church Reports

Driving into work yesterday, I was listening to the local news on the radio. As does happen every day during the top of the hour news broadcast, there were a ...

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Volunteer Church Webmasters Should Quit

Everyone’s talking about Michael Boyink’s post about how church webmasters should stop working for free, for good reason. Effective Web Ministry Notes tipped us off, and Heal Your Church Web ...

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Churches are like a Velvet Elvis

The Detroit Free Press profiled Rob Bell, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Mich. and his upcoming book, Velvet Elvis, came up as a metaphor for out of ...

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Cardiff, U.K. Church Offers WiFi

When St. John’s Church in Cardiff, Wales realized the city-wide wireless wasn’t getting through the church’s thick walls, they went the extra step to install an extra node and bring ...

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U.K. Churches Looking in Parking Lot to Gauge Income

Vicars in the U.K. are being urged to check the cars in the parking lot to get an idea of what their congregations should be dropping in the offering plate. ...

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Church Sign Trivia

Just when you thought church signs couldn’t get any weirder, two churches in Stillwater, Minn. are facing off in a church sign trivia contest. Rev. Steve Molin of Our Savior’s ...

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Drive-Thru Church

The Metropolitan Church of the Quad Cities in Davenport, Iowa offered drive-thru church this weekend, offering visitors communion, the day’s scripture, a take-home homily and a free gift. “People will be ...

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Graphic Design Resources

Nick Ciske over at Creative Church has been posting tons of free resources for designers: Briar Press – A collection of free wood cuts and initial caps to add a touch ...

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Street Teams for the Church

Stephen Brewster of Calvary Christian Center in Ormond Beach, Fla. e-mailed us about the promotional teams their churches uses to get the word out. The voluntary “street teams” are given cards, ...

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Creating Passionate Users

This is more of a business-type blog, but Creating Passionate Users has plenty of lessons for the church as well. Jonathan Blundell points us to and expands on their entries ...

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How Blogging Can Help the Church

We’ve said it before, but sometimes it helps to hear it from someone else: Lifeway offers four ways blogging can help the church, based on the BusinessWeek article, “Blogs Will ...

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