Guest Bloggers

Join the Team
We're looking for people interested in contributing to the Church Marketing Sucks conversation. You don't have to be a techno-geek, a pastor or a marketing guru (but that's great if you are!). You just need to have something to offer as we seek to help the church. Check out our writer's guidelines and then submit something online.

Our pay and benefits suck, but hey—one battle at a time.

Most Recent Guest Blogger Entries:
Inspiration or Invitation?
CMS at HOW Design
HOW Design Conference: Design Evangelist
Brands Are Bigger Than Logos
Best Practices for Internet Ministry: Part 3
Best Practices for Internet Ministry: Part 2
Best Practices for Internet Ministry: Part 1
Lessons Learned: Being Banned From Church
Four Pastoral Blogging Taboos and How To Fix Them
A Reader's Resolution

Elizabeth Anchondo, Guest Blogger
Elizabeth has worked in the advertising/media industry for two years and recently broke into the realm of internet marketing. Elizabeth spends her free time with family and learning about all things advertising and culture and currently attends Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas.

Greg Atkinson, Guest Blogger
Greg Atkinson is the founder of Multisensoryworship.com and co-founder of Wasteland Creative, where he continues to consult, teach and write. You can connect with him through his daily blog, Church Video Ideas, his podcast, Creative Synergy, or his email: greg@wastelandcreative.com.

Mike Atkinson, Guest Blogger
Mike Atkinson has been in Internet marketing and strategy since 1995, with Youth Specialties and as a consultant, and serves as the webmaster at his church. Check out his site, blog, and article series on improving church websites.

Brenton Balvin, Guest Blogger
Brenton Balvin is a writer, blogger and speaker who is passionate about helping churches create great first impressions, developing innovative ministry ideas and making sure church marketing doesn't suck. Brenton lives in Minneapolis, Minn. with his wonderful wife and three loud, energetic and basically insane small children (all under the age of four) who he is grooming for the NHL.

Tim Bednar, Guest Blogger
Tim is a former artist and pastor and the founder of e-Church, where anyone can participate in the Christian conversation by starting a free blog. He's currently a designer for a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing and lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Rebecca and their two children.

Joel Bezaire, Guest Blogger
Joel Bezaire is a musician and math teacher who lives in Nashville, Tenn. and attends West End Community Church. His blog and web site, Crummy Church Signs have categorized and commented on over 400 church signs that suck.

David Bourgeois, Guest Blogger
David is a professor at Biola University, a researcher and blogger. Dave lives with his wife, Marne, and their six children in Brea, Calif., where they have attended Evangelical Free Church of Diamond Bar for the past fifteen years.

Michael Buckingham, Guest Blogger
Michael is founder and creative director of Holy Cow Creative, a studio focused on creating church growth through relevant marketing and design. He has taken his experience in the public sector of building and growing businesses both big and small and is applying this expertise in changing the way the church looks at marketing.

Brian Gaffney, Guest Blogger
Brian A. Gaffney is the expectant father of FourWord Thinking Marketing and Communications, Inc., a Christian communications consultancy that he was called to start after working in corporate consumer marketing for a decade. He and his wife, Kym, live in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attend Emmanuel Baptist Church, where he is an ordained deacon.

Keith Gardner, Guest Blogger
Keith Gardner grew up Baptist and has attended a lot of churches. However, he's never found a church he's looked forward to attending more than once.

Andy Havens, Guest Blogger
Andy Havens brings 15 years of experience to the table and is the founder and president of the marketing firm Sanestorm, as well as a number of different blogs. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, Christina, and his son, Daniel.

Kristina Hill, Guest Blogger
Kristina Hill works in public affairs for a Christian ministry in Charlotte, N.C. She holds a master's degree in marketing communications and thinks that Church Marketing Sucks is one of the coolest, in-your-face, church outreach tools on the planet!

Anne Jackson, Guest Blogger
Anne Jackson is a writer, artist and coffee addict who lives with her husband and two emotionally unstable cats in the Dallas area. She works at Lake Pointe Church in Rockwall, Texas and in her free time enjoys badly impersonating foreign accents, photography, and eating anything chocolate.

Paul Kuzma, Guest Blogger
Paul Kuzma is pastor of NewHeart Foursquare Church in Simi Valley, Calif., where he has been for 22 years, which is over half his life. He is looking for any help he can get in locating a nearby stash of Diet Dr. Pepper Cherry Chocolate, so let him know if you find some.

Jennifer Laycock, Guest Blogger
Jennifer Laycock is a search engine marketing consultant and editor of Search Engine Guide. She's also a full-time work-at-home mom to an adorable little girl named Elnora.

Scott Magdalein, Guest Blogger
Scott runs ReadScott.com, a blog about church leadership, entrepreneurship and blogging. He also leads worship at Celebration Baptist Church and owns Updatable, a web and graphic design studio based in Jacksonville, Fla.

Brandon Meek, Guest Blogger
Brandon is the Media Pastor at Christ Church Assembly of God in Fort Worth, Texas and serves as a moderator in the Church Marketing Lab. Brandon spends his free time with his wife, their two children, and soaking up as much as he can about advertising and marketing.

Kem Meyer, Guest Blogger
Kem Meyer is the communications director at Granger Community Church and shares practical insights from her experiences on her blog and through conferences and workshops. Kem and her husband, Mark, have three children and live in South Bend, Ind.

Cory Miller, Guest Blogger
Cory Miller is a church communications director who lives in Oklahoma City with his wife, Jennifer. In addition to being a part-time seminary student, he runs Church Communications Pro to share his experiences in church communications and marketing.

Marcus Neto, Guest Blogger
Marcus Neto is currently living in Daphne, Ala. where he earns his peanuts as a web designer. He can be reached at marcusneto.com.

Greg Nilsen, Guest Blogger
Greg Nilsen is the webmaster and worship leader at South Pittsburgh Assembly of God as well as the founder of If Jesus Had A Website, a site of resources and information for church webmasters. He lives in Pittsburgh, Penn., with his wife, Marci.

Kevin Peterson, Guest Blogger
Kevin wears several hats in the Communications Ministry at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Ky. He spends his free time loving his wife, obsessing over Lost and getting his fantasy football team ready for the weekend.

Cory Piña, Guest Blogger
Cory Piña is a communication coordinator at Calvin Crest Conferences. He brings approximately one year of experience, as well as an adequate knowledge of cheese.

Margaret Pittman, Guest Blogger
As a children's pastor in an Episcopal church for 12 years, Margaret learned first hand the challenges faced by church staff in making the gospel relevant in our culture today and gained a unique "inside out" view of the church. Currently she is looking at the church from a different perspective--as an outsider looking in--as she is no longer on the church staff and spends her time critiquing churches and training for triathlons.

Bill Seaver, Guest Blogger
Bill consults in the development of new media strategies for churches and ministries as the vice president of White Post Media in Nashville, Tenn. He's an active member of Long Hollow Baptist Church and is also an avid blogger on his personal blog, MicroExplosion.com.

Alex Seidel, Guest Blogger
Alex Seidel develops web, video/film and branding strategies in Redmond, Wash. He reads four books at a time and enjoys being with his lovely girlfriend and her rambunctious boys.

Ryan Stauffer, Guest Blogger
Ryan Stauffer works in media and communications for Christ's Covenant Church in northern Indiana. He spends much of his time obsessing over institutional Christianity and its role in the postmodern world.

Joe Suh, Guest Blogger
Joe Suh is the co-founder of MyChurch.org, along with his wife Carol. MyChurch.org is the free church social networking site launching on September 1, 2006.

Tim Wall, Guest Blogger
Tim Wall used to be a full-time pastor of technology, communications and what not. Now he leads worship at his church, he blogs (sometimes), and he also works for Element Fusion, a company that builds web-based software products like Sky and Light.

Bradley Watson, Guest Blogger
Bradley Watson is a storyteller who grew up in Western Europe and migrated to the states. He now lives and goes to school in Oklahoma where he is studying International Business and is involved in a community called Canterbury. He enjoys the mountains, the cities, and is a coffee snob. You can read some of his stories on his blog.

David Zimmerman, Guest Blogger
David Zimmerman is a pastor at Living Waters Church in Lake Wylie, S.C., where he lives with his wife, Christie, and his step-dog, Murphy. You can also check out his personal blog.