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Demographically Speaking Results
Last week, we asked how your church responds to the issue of ministering to an increasingly diverse society. Where I come from, this means offering something more than NASCAR parties, ...
Where We’re Missing
I was reading my good friends (I’ve never met them, but it sounds better, and I like them) over at Church Relevance, and they posted some interesting statistics from the ...
Growing, Buzzing Churches: Save $70
I’m not quite sure when I first drank of it, but the Mark Batterson Kool-Aid is still having an affect on me. I met Mark in the flesh at last ...
The Anti-Welcoming Church
No matter how welcoming churches think they are, they usually aren’t. Why does it have to be so hard to find and connect with a church? I don’t know, but ...
Design Matters: Creating Powerful Imagery for Worship
For anyone involved in the world of church design, marketing and branding (whether new or a seasoned pro), I’d like to recommend a book for you to check out called ...
Church Doesn’t Suck Billboard
Apparently it’s church billboard week. First it was “Satan “ in the copy, and now it’s “Sucks.” GracePoint Church in Wichita, Kan. has launched a billboard campaign that’s drawing criticism, ...
Yahoo! Real Estate and The Church
Yahoo! Real Estate’s new tool, Neighborhood Profile, provides an interesting tool for an often overlooked necessity in the church–cross-cultural ministry. The tool lists factors such as average income, average family ...
Satan Hates Life
Lifechurch.tv launched a new billboard campaign recently that’s pretty creative. I’ve seen billboards for churches before and I’ve liked, well, none of them. This might change my mind. The time ...
Grade Your Church Poll
Last week, we asked you, scholarly CMS reader, to grade your churches on their marketing efforts. Upon receiving the grades and entering them into our computers, the averages were less ...
Parade of Churches
Emergent Village is coordinating the Twin Cities Parade of Churches. It’s mostly focusing on those wacky emergent churches, but what a great idea to get people together to experience, discuss ...
Church Staff Split Over ‘Sucks’
Oh, LarkNews, a site after my own heart. You know our pain and you let us chuckle together: Staff Split Over ‘Sucks’ (link via Mike Atkinson)…
Churches Talk About Sex (Gasp!)
That incredibly illicit image of two pairs of naked feet hanging off the edge of a bed from Granger Community Church’s My Lame Sex Life campaign is getting around. Lately ...
End of the Series on Innovative Churches
Today we’ve officially wrapped up our series on Innovative Churches, featuring the Squidoo-powered and user-submitted list of innovative churches (currently at 65 churches) and our own Brad Abare’s responses to ...
Innovative Churches: Measures & the Future
Part 10 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. How will we know if innovation is working? How should we measure the ...
Awards Poll
Last week we ran a story about an Amarillo, Texas church that won a best in show Addy Award. Not too shabby. So we wondered how many other churches were ...
Cute, Clever and Cool
One of my daily blog reads is Signal vs. Noise from the folks behind 37signals. Not only do I use a few of their products (personally and professionally), I really ...
Presentation Matters
Relevant has an interesting online article on The Commercial Church. It argues for pretty much the opposite of what we say here, but I always find these articles interesting and ...