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Church Stolen
Point Hope United Methodist Church in Mount Pleasant, S.C. faced a unique challenge when their church was stolen. Their church was housed in a trailer which they parked and locked ...
Choosing a Church Name
What’s in a name? Everything. More and more churches are considering a name change, often dropping denominational affiliations that no longer connect with people (though the denominational ties remain intact) ...
The Crowds Want In
There is certainly no shortage of conversations on the topic of community, particularly how it relates to the health and vitality of a church. Without a doubt, this concept of ...
Should Churches Fly the U.S. Flag?
Should churches in the U.S. fly the American flag, and if they do, what position should it have in relation to other Christian symbols? It’s an interesting debate and sums ...
Cartoon Church: Comics for Church Use
CartoonChurch has gone live, offering single comics and syndication for church newsletters and publications. There’s not currently a huge offering, but it appears to be growing. One of my favorites ...
A Few Resources
In case you haven’t checked the Don’t Suck list lately, we’ve added a few new resources including BetaChurch and Blank. BetaChurch is a blog covering design and technology from the folks ...
Ministries Today Article
We recently wrote an article for Ministries Today on church marketing that appeared in the May/June issue. Turn to page 32 for the article, “Marketing Your Church Without Diluting Your ...
Free U2 Ticket Update
A while back we talked about a church in Arizona that was giving away free U2 tickets as part of an Easter promotion. The dust has finally settled and we ...
Connecting Church Marketers
Last week Brad posted an entry about design and marketing positions in churches and theorized that churches will soon have a Pastoral Director of Design & Marketing. Based on the ...
Does Your Church Dream?
Irving Bible Church in Irving, Texas has a dream: We dream of a church where people are free to attempt great things for God; where people have nothing to prove and ...
You’re Invited: Bringing People to Church
In yesterday’s post about seeker-sensitive churches in Ohio, pastor Lee Powell of CedarCreek made the comment that despite all the advertising they do (he compared it to buying weekly tire ...
Lessons from Seeker Sensitive Churches
The Toledo Blade covered “seeker-sensitive” churches this weekend and here are a few highlights. The biggest value to these seeker-sensitive churches is that they’re open to the fact that church often ...
Barbara Boxer on Being Authentic
If you’ve been a part of the Church Marketing Sucks conversation for any amount of time, you know a basic tenet of good marketing philosophy comes down to churches being ...
The Marketing of Alpha
This article explores the marketing of the Alpha Course, and while it intially seems to mock the “slick, contemporary marketing,” by the end you realize the effective story of Alpha ...
Marketing the Church is like Marketing the Pope
When some people think of church marketing, I think they’re closer to the peddling of trinkets and other lame aspects of marketing. Like this story about the sales of new ...
How Churches Attract People
A Florida newspaper explores the strategies churches use to bring in people, and it’s all marketing. Everything from how the message is delivered to paying attention to the people to ...
Pastoral Director of Design & Marketing
For quite some time now I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of the church in terms of the makeup of its staff and personnel. More specifically, I’d like ...