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Embrace Restrictions: The 5-Minute Presentation
Restrictions can unleash your creativity. What would happen if your church embraced restrictions with shorter sermons, welcome videos and announcements?
Rachel Held Evans on What Millennials Want
"What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance."
How to Create a Brand Style Guide
Communicate your brand consistently and bring legitimacy to your communication by developing a set of standards known as a brand style guide.
Certification Lab: Interview With Phil Bowdle
Why should you pony up the money and attend the Certification Lab? "Because what you do matters," says Phil Bowdle.
Triumphing in the Face of Pushback
Pushback can grind you down. Gerry True talks about how to overcome, a topic that will be covered at the Certification Lab in October.
The Bible on Creative Comparison
"Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life."
Mark MacDonald: Overwhelmed Communicators
We talk with new board member Mark MacDonald about focus, the transition to digital and how the Certification Lab can help overwhelmed communicators.
Certification Lab: Interview With Gerry True
We talk with facilitator Gerry True about the upcoming Certification Lab. Check out his insights and watch him talk about the transition from print to digital.
Volunteers Live Longer
Volunteers need to consider the benefits, the needs and the cost of volunteering. Leaders also need to consider it and need to make sure their volunteers are too.
Meredith Gould on Content Goals
"You’ll get no-where very quickly if promoting the church website and getting more butts in the pews is your greatest goal."
7 Design Lessons From My First Years in Church Communication
There's a lot to learn about graphic design, but here are seven lessons I learned in my first years as a church communicator.
Dealing With Constraints
When we lack resources we get the opportunity to start being innovative. Stephen Brewster talks about constraints, a topic that will be covered at the Certification Lab in October.
Church Comm 101: Support the New Book from Tim Schraeder
Our former co-director Tim Schraeder is putting together a new, crowd-funded book project. Learn more about the idea and how you can help support it.
Google Hangout for the Certification Lab
Join us on Thursday, Sept. 5 at 2 p.m. CT for a Google Hangout to answer questions about our upcoming Certification Lab.
We Are Prophets of a Future Not Our Own
"We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well."
Certification Lab
Our two-day training event, the Certification Lab, is coming to Nashville in October with speakers Phil Bowdle, Stephen Brewster, Mark MacDonald and Gerry True.
3 Lessons From the Civil Rights Movement
Designer Bobby Martin shares three simple lessons for churches from the civil rights movement: Document everything, no more committees and keep messaging straight-forward and direct.