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Archive for the ‘Evangelism & Outreach’ Category
Church “Mascots” for Children’s Ministry?
Recently I was part of a team of people that used a store mascot to do some local marketing. OK, I was the guy dressed up as a giant A&W ...
Where We’re Missing
I was reading my good friends (I’ve never met them, but it sounds better, and I like them) over at Church Relevance, and they posted some interesting statistics from the ...
The Anti-Welcoming Church
No matter how welcoming churches think they are, they usually aren’t. Why does it have to be so hard to find and connect with a church? I don’t know, but ...
Churches Talk About Sex (Gasp!)
That incredibly illicit image of two pairs of naked feet hanging off the edge of a bed from Granger Community Church’s My Lame Sex Life campaign is getting around. Lately ...
Stand-Up Comic Helps UK Clergy
Comedian Andy Kind is offering help to British clergy with a workshop that focuses on performance skills in an effort to help them better communicate with their congregations. “Christianity is not ...
They Didn’t Teach Marketing In Seminary
Rev. Matthew Moretz laments that they didn’t teach him marketing in seminary, despite the fact that he does more print jobs than sermons. But considering the success of his Father ...
Marketing to Agnostics and Not Atheists
I was giving a demo about online church communities at the Community Next Conference recently. I opened with a comparison of churches and schools–namely, that there are more Christian churches ...
Churches Should Do What Works
LifeChurch.tv’s Craig Groeschel talks about cutting back church ministries. What?! No VBS? No choir? No women’s ministry? (gasp) I love his simple and calm reasoning that churches should do what works ...
Church Marketing Lessons from PETA
So today I stumbled across this little pornographic video from PETA and blogged about it on my personal site. Don’t worry, I’m linking to my blog post and not the ...
Multisite Churches Spreading Across D.C.
“We as a congregation made a decision that if we are going to embrace people, we must leave the four walls of the church.” – Rev. Deron Cloud, founder of ...
Visitors, Beer and Sex–Oh My!
Yet again the links have piled up around me faster than I can blog them, so it’s time to blow the dam and just let you have them. Here we ...
Official NFL Church Super Bowl Parties
Or maybe the solution to the NFL sacking church Super Bowl ™ parties is to get organized. What if church Super Bowl ™ parties were officially sanctioned events? A church ...
NFL Bans Church Super Bowl Parties
Tomorrow is the Super Bowl, in case you didn’t know (I had to look it to be sure, so don’t feel bad), and amid all the stories about commercials and ...
MLK Day On, Not Off
Following up my post post from earlier this week about how more churches should be making a bigger deal about MLK day, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that many ...
Post-Holiday Linkfest
My post-holiday recovery never quite happened, thanks to the fact that my family is trying to sell our house. So I’ve got a pile of links I haven’t had time ...
