Archive for June 2006

events Article
June 12, 2006

The Events Lab

The Center for Church Communication, our non-profit parent organization, just launched a new resource: The Events Lab. It’s a Google-powered public calendar listing church marketing and communications related events. This week ...

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think-ahead Article
June 12, 2006

It’s Not Always Numerical Growth

This is part five in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? I think numerical church growth can also be an idealized state, the place we want to ...

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poll-results Article
June 11, 2006

Stock Photography Poll

In response to some heated debate on our post Stock Photography Sucks, we asked how many churches use stock photography. The results varied, with 6% using only original and 23% ...

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peer-review Article
June 9, 2006

Church Marketing Lab Round Up #11

It’s been a busy week in the Church Marketing Lab, our community to share your work and offer feedback to others. So dive in and give your suggestions. Amped – t-shirt ...

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think-ahead Article
June 9, 2006

Healing, Sick and Dying Churches

This is part four in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? So if a church isn’t growing, what’s happening? Rick Warren says it’s dying, that it’s diseased. ...

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think-ahead Article
June 8, 2006

Perpetual Church Growth

This is part three in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? The Out of Ur blog from Christianity Today has an interesting post about Jim Collins (author ...

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think-ahead Article
June 7, 2006

9 Church Growth Myths

This is part two in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? There are a lot of knee-jerk reactions to church growth. Somehow wanting more people to come ...

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think-ahead Article
June 6, 2006

Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell?

Start talking about church growth and things can get ugly. Eyebrows raise. Tempers flare. Comments explode. Just ask any blogging pastor who has broached the subject. It’s as if growing ...

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philosophy Article
June 5, 2006

Church Marketing Philosophy & Free Gas

Another church is giving away free gas. This time it’s the Crossing Community Church in Chandler, Ariz. The church isn’t shy about marketing, even including a section on their web ...

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technology Article
June 5, 2006

VBS Meets the 21st Century

VBS–has there ever been a more churchy acronymn? Today those summer church programs for children (Vacation Bible School, for those who aren’t in the know) are far from glorified Sunday ...

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technology Article
June 5, 2006

Driving Traffic To Your Blog

You’ve got to love Seth Godin, marketing guru and author of Purple Cow. He posted a wonderfully contradictory post, How to get traffic for your blog, that perfectly illustrates his ...

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reviews Article
June 5, 2006

Stories of Emergence

You’ve probably heard about the emergent church movement. It’s a collective of ideas that loosely fall under the postmodern label and draw nods or scowls, depending on the crowd (Brian ...

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poll-results Article
June 5, 2006

No Longer Sucks Poll

Last week we asked how you help improve church communication. 25% volunteer, 23% make suggestions and point to good resources and 21% are on a communications team for their church. ...

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peer-review Article
June 2, 2006

Church Marketing Lab Round Up #10

We do this every Friday. You know what to do, right? Good. Friends – graphics for a sermon series on friendship that will appear in the church foyer and also be ...

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examples Article
June 2, 2006

Marketing a Church Plant

Ridge Stone Church in Canton, Ga., has launched Ridge Stone Backstage, a blog to share some of the lessons they’ve learned as a church plant that held their first service ...

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