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The Incredible Shrinking Megachurch
NPR covers the satellite efforts of megachurches, that have them shrinking back to smaller sizes. “It’s our desire to be a local neighborhood church again,” says Jim Tomberlin, the regional pastor ...
The $88 Billion Church
The 350,000 churches, synagogues and mosques in the U.S. raked in an estimated $88.3 billion last year. That’s a lot of money. That makes religion a bigger business than say, ...
Protesting Church Expansion
And I thought growing churches conflicting with their neighbors would be an isolated deal. Maybe not. On Sunday neighbors were protesting the 4,000-member St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, Calif. ...
Reasons to Use Direct Mail
The church marketing company FaithSpan has a newly redesigned web site and is offering a new section of How-To PDFs. One of the best is 9 Reasons to use Direct ...
Church Marketing Sucks Banners
Spread the word about Church Marketing Sucks with our lovely assortment of banners and linking graphics. Get ’em while they last! We’ve got sizes to fit any web page and styles ...
Wearing Hats in Church
Last week’s poll asked whether or not it’s acceptable to wear hats during a church service, referring to an earlier post about a church upheaval caused by hats. 41% didn’t ...
Image Ministries Marketing Samples
These are a few random samples from Image Ministries and their various marketing efforts, mainly because I couldn’t pick just one. If you’d like your stuff to get the peer ...
Churches Using Advertising
The Boston Herald reports on churches using advertising, though the whopping two examples they give doesn’t illustrate the trend very well. They spend most of their time talking about the ...
Turning Buildings into Churches
We’re not exactly a church building blog, but I think this article about churches converting old buildings instead of building new ones is pretty cool. The main motivation is that ...
No Return
Yesterday I met with the president and his management team from a Bible college here in Southern California. They had initiated the meeting a month ago to discuss “marketing.” Even ...
The Neighborhood Church
Growing churches can quickly draw the ire of surrounding neighbors, especially if churches neglect to be good neighbors—something that should be obvious for Christians. Church expansion plans can change the ...
The Church That I See
Brian Houston started a church in 1983 and one day sat down and imagined the church he’d love to pastor. That church is Hillsong, the largest independent church in Australia: Before ...
The Growth of Black Churches in the U.K.
A BBC article on black worshippers in the U.K. says that people of African or Caribbean origin make up 2% of the U.K. population, but account for 7% of church ...
Leadership Journal: Church Marketing Hoovers
If you check out the summer 2005 issue of Leadership Journal you’ll stumble across a little blurb about your favorite vacuum-themed web site. The piece, titled Church Marketing Hoovers, gives ...
Verdict on the Redesign
About ten days ago we celebrated our one-year anniversary and posted a significant redesign. Thanks to everyone who gave input on the design and wished us a happy birthday. We ...
The Christian Imitation
Have you ever seen a “got pepsi?” T-shirt? No. Do you know why? Because Pepsi—and any other company and organization worth their salt—is smart enough to come up with something original. They ...
Mega Churches: Act of God or Marketing?
A recent article looks at mega churches and asks why they’re growing. Is it God, as most of the churches would say, or is it marketing, like the academics say? ...