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Innovative Churches: Ingredients
Part 3 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. Here’s the next Q&A from the Outreach/Tony Morgan questionnaire: What does innovation look like ...
Innovative Churches: Definition & Is It Biblical?
Part 2 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. As a part of Outreach‘s Most Innovative Churches list, I answered a questionnaire ...
The Most Innovative Churches
Part 1 in a series on Innovative Churches Outreach magazine recently released a list of America’s most innovative churches. Outreach magazine and Simply Strategic guy Tony Morgan came up with the ...
NRB’s Reach 2007 Conference
Our very own Brad Abare will be speaking at the NRB’s 2007 Reach Conference next month in Orlando, Fla. The conference is February 17-19 and Brad will be headlining the ...
Salt-Seasoning for a Full House
When our success at communicating is measured against the contemporary, creative, and controversial, we’re missing it. Like a dieter eating Milk Duds on a treadmill, we must not forget why ...
Church Walls as Billboards: Your Ad Here
“Your Ad Here” and “Your Corporate Logo Here” displayed alternately for two and a half hours on the side of the Cathedral of our Lady of Angels in Los Angeles, ...
Top 59 Smartest Organizations Online
Our non-profit parent, the Center for Church Communication, was just named one of the Top 59 Smartest Organizations Online. You can read more about it at the CFCC blog. Whoa. We’re ...
Beautiful Basics
Everybody’s been talking about the amazing new iPhone this past week. As you can imagine, it holds a few lessons for the church. But first comes 37signals’ prediction for the iPhone, ...
Church Tie in Poll
Last week we asked about the controversial issue of churches partnering with outside organizations. Brad started it with his post about church partnerships and then followed up with the example ...
Top 5 Must-Read Blogs for Fundraisers
It seems we’re one of the top five must-read blogs for fundraisers. Jeff Brooks, author of the Donor Power Blog and creative director at the ad agency Merkle/Domain, offered up ...
MLK Day On, Not Off
Following up my post post from earlier this week about how more churches should be making a bigger deal about MLK day, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that many ...
Church Staff Free Agents
Ooh, ooh, did you hear the news? Forget about that Beckham guy, Tony Morgan, former pastor at Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. and one of the Simply Strategic guys ...
Outreach’s Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators
In my haste to dump some links on you yesterday I forgot one: Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators. It’s a web exclusive from Outreach magazine written by, oh ...
Post-Holiday Linkfest
My post-holiday recovery never quite happened, thanks to the fact that my family is trying to sell our house. So I’ve got a pile of links I haven’t had time ...
Irrelevant Social Clubs: Martin Luther King Jr. on the Church
This coming Monday in the United States, we will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s a federal holiday and, as of the year 2000, every state recognizes it. Established ...
Newspaper Advertising Poll
Last week we asked about newspaper advertising. It was a shorter poll, thanks to some holiday delays. But the outlook for church advertising in newspapers isn’t that promising. 45% ...
New Year Poll
Last week we asked about your church marketing hopes and dreams for 2007. The perennial favorite, a web site that doesn’t make people cringe, took the top spot with 34%. ...