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Blogging Church: The Book
This isn’t exactly breaking news anymore, but pastor/blogger Terry Storch and web guy/blogger Brian Bailey (both of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas) are writing what looks to be the definitive ...
A Sense of Humor is Great for Marketing
For more than 15 years I’ve driven past a church on the way to my parents’ house without ever really noticing that it was there. (Most likely because it’s located ...
Why Working Together Works
What’s the great thing about a well thought-out outreach? The way that it can take on a life of its own and go from impacting hundreds to impacting thousands. What’s ...
Seacoast Vineyard’s Logo
Check out this logo for a New Hampshire church plant in this week’s peer review. Samples: Main logo: Smaller logo:…
Churches Mobilize in Katrina Aftermath
In the aftermath of Katrina I’m just baffled at the chaos. You’d think we could do better. The one tiny bit of consolation I have is the way churches and ministries ...
Free Gas for First Time Church Visitors
With gas approaching $3 per gallon (I just paid $2.99 in St. Paul, Minn.) Clearview Community Church in Sioux City, Iowa is offering free gas to get visitors in the ...
Making Sense Without Sense
While on the treadmill the other day at my local gym, a TV in the distance captivated me. I usually don’t care to watch the “devil box” (as my mother ...
Can You Hear the Voice of the Church?
If you thought Pat Robertson brought the church to a new public relations low, you haven’t heard of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kans. Let’s just say if you haven’t ...
Why People Leave Church
People leave church for the stupidest reasons. Nearly three-quarters of people left U.K. churches because of a “disagreement on a range of issues, from the way the organ is played ...
Many Ways of Doing Church
You know what I love about the church? There’s no one right way of doing it. No where in the Bible do we find an order of service telling us ...
Real Live Preacher on Church Marketing
Real Live Preacher, the quasi-famous blogging pastor who recently published his first book, RealLivePreacher.com, ranted about church marketing recently. He complains about both churches doing marketing and businesses that market ...
Poll Results Suck
The results are in for last week’s poll asking if ‘sucks’ is a swear word. 57% said “@#*%, no!” which means if a simple majority decided morality we’d be good ...
Props from Relevant Magazine
The Sept/Oct 2005 issue of Relevant magazine just showed up in the mail, and while flipping through it I was surprised to see something familiar on page 67: Church Marketing ...
Multiple Church Services
Question: When should churches add another service? Answer: When the pews are full. Wrong. At least according to Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan of Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. In their Rev ...
Attracting a Crowd to Your Church
The latest issue of Rev magazine has an article from Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan of Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. adapted from their book Simply Strategic Growth. The ...
Business Savvy Pastors in High Demand
A recent article reports that pastors and church leaders with business and marketing backgrounds are in high demand. And more church leaders have those skills since 2 in 3 seminarians ...
The Message Drives the Marketing
A recent article touts the high demand of marketing skills in church leaders, but unfortunately the article doesn’t entirely get it. On several fronts. Civil Rights and MarketingThe article quotes a ...