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Archive for the ‘Church Business’ Category
Is Leadership Spiritual?
Christianity Today has an interesting debate between North Point Community Church’s Andy Stanley and the author of Good to Great, Jim Collins. Well, it’s not so much a debate. Both ...
Church Marketing Without Money
Granger Community Church Communications Director Kem Meyer shares eight ways to improve church communications with little or no budget: Have conversations. Lots of them. Create a style guide. Identify your specific audience. Document your ...
Church Surveys
A church survey is a great way to get input from your congregation and find out what’s working and what’s not. Tony Morgan from Granger Community Church (yes, they’re the ...
Church Business Applied to the Airline Industry
Perry Noble, pastor of New Spring Church in Anderson, S.C. has an interesting blog entry imagining what would happen if church business practices were applied to the airline industry. It’s ...
Is Your Church a Safe Church?
The DesMoines Register covered church security this weekend, a topic that usually doesn’t get a lot of attention. Some of those church safety precautions include: Training and screening church leaders and ...
Anglican Newspaper Banned
Maybe I have an anti-establishment streak, but when an upstart conservative paper is banned by the church, I have to laugh. The Anglican Journal is the official newspaper of the ...
Starbucks and Rick Warren
USA Today has a great article about the recent Rick Warren Starbucks cup story, in addition to several other mainstream companies that incorporate some sort of God-factor into their marketing ...
Performance-Based Salaries for Pastors
I seem to be on a Mark Oestreicher roll this week (actually, I’ve just been catching up on my RSS feeds), but I stumbled across another great entry: Worst Church ...
The Smiling Pastor
An entry over at Tony McCollum’s Churchwerx talks about the power of a smile. McCollum uses the example of General Dwight D. Eisenhower: During World War II, Dwight Eisenhower, supreme ...
U.K. Churches Looking in Parking Lot to Gauge Income
Vicars in the U.K. are being urged to check the cars in the parking lot to get an idea of what their congregations should be dropping in the offering plate. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cut Your Pastor Some Slack
So often when it comes to the church marketing discussion everything falls to the pastor. As much as I want churches to improve their marketing, I also want to be ...
Outsourcing the Drive-Thru?
Listening to the news today (I love talk radio), I learn that McDonald’s is re-thinking their approach to the drive-thru. Instead of having orders radioed a few feet ahead to ...
Supporting Pastors Is Good For Marketing
Recently stats have been floating around the Internet that point to the difficulty of being a pastor, including numbers like the following: “80% of pastors say that ministry has negatively affected ...
