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Archive for the ‘Examples’ Category
Learning from Churches that Work
Terry Storch (who brought us Church Marketing Sucks, What Works For You?) along with Tony Morgan have put together a list of Top 10 Innovative Churches. Every church’s web site ...
The Hats That Broke the Church
There’s an interesting article over at Christianity Today about a Montana church nearly torn apart by hats. It started when a couple high school students wore ball caps to the ...
What’s Working in Church?
Colin Sedgwick is the pastor of Lindsay Park Baptist Church in Kenton, Middlesex and wrote a column for the Guardian suggesting how churches can reverse the decline in attendance. He ...
Drive-Thru Church
The Metropolitan Church of the Quad Cities in Davenport, Iowa offered drive-thru church this weekend, offering visitors communion, the day’s scripture, a take-home homily and a free gift. “People will be ...
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 ...
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 ...
Get Involved or Get Out
The Meeting House, a multi-site church in Canada, has a unique approach to encouraging congregation involvement: Purge Sundays. That’s the tongue-in-cheek name the staff uses, but it gets to the ...
Go to Church, Win a Harley
This sounds vaguely familiar, but Crossroads Church in Coronoa, Calif. is giving away a Harley Davidson motorcycle to a lucky first time visitor or church member who brings a visitor. ...
Porn Weekend @ Westwinds Church
Westwinds Church in Jackson, Mich. held a Porn Weekend this past week. The festivities included a presentation by Craig Gross of xxxchurch.com, a screening of the anti-pornography documentary Missionary Positions, ...
Seth Godin on Church Marketing
According to the New York Times (registration required), Radiant Church in Surprise, Ariz. spends $16,000 per year on Krispy Kreme donuts. And I thought Baptists liked to eat. Quoth marketing ...
The Seneca Creek Mailers
This weekend Todd Rhoades sent us an e-mail pointing out a series of mailers sent out by Seneca Creek Community Church in Germantown, Md. It’s not clear from the images ...
The Neon Flier
This 8.5″x11″ neon yellow flier (I know the color didn’t scan that well—I’m a writer, not a Photoshop expert) advertises Jehovah Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minn.…
The “Hey, look—a church!” Postcard
This postcard came in the mail today advertising the Holy Week services at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minn.…
Prophecy Code Flier
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of real world examples of church marketing and I want to share some of them. Feel free to comment on what works and what ...
The $14,000 Sermon
Loud gasps were heard in the 125-member Newsong Church in Grove, Okla. when Pastor Steve Dyer handed out $14,000 in cash. Adults received $100 bills and children $50 bills, and ...
