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I-35W Bridge Collapse: A Church Marketing Perspective
You’ve surely heard by now, that the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed yesterday, killing at least four, injuring 79 and at least eight more are still ...
Building A Network
Call it church marketing if you want, but Southeast Christian in Louisville, Ky. (my own church) is taking a unique approach to reaching the community. Kyle Idleman has taken a three-part ...
Turning Churches into Homeless Shelters
I stumbled on this satirical and presumably fictional piece last month. The fact that it quotes big-name mega-church pastors in the Twin Cities gives it an eerie feeling of authenticity. ...
The Church Responds To Virginia Tech Tragedy
As Virginia Tech and all of America continue to mourn and grieve, the church has begun to respond. In instances like this where there is little physical and monetary relief ...
Ted Haggard and Church Marketing
It seems painfully ironic to me that the same week I posted about Christians taking each other down, we have a high profile example of Christians taking themselves down in ...
Snakes in the Pew
Too often the work of communicating the message of the church is ruined because of the people in the church. Dr. Ergun Caner shared the message “Snakes in the Pew” ...
Pastor Kyle Lake Electrocuted During Baptism Service
The news is spreading pretty quickly, both in the blog world and in the news, but in case you haven’t heard pastor and author Kyle Lake was electrocuted while performing ...
Churches Mobilize in Katrina Aftermath
In the aftermath of Katrina I’m just baffled at the chaos. You’d think we could do better. The one tiny bit of consolation I have is the way churches and ministries ...
Social Club or Thermostat Church?
The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the position of the church: “There was a time when the church was very powerful—in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being ...
The Golden Rule
This has little directly to do with marketing, but I love the story. It’s about Rev. Frank Santora, the senior pastor of a Faith Church in New Milford, Conn. Santora ...
Diversity in the Pews
The Church of Saint Joseph in Spring Valley, N.Y. has something few other churches have: diversity. Weekly attendance is at nearly 4,000, spread over services in four languages: English, Spanish, ...
Liquor in Church? Not in Maryland.
A Maryland church caused a ruckus after applying for a liquor license for their new banquet hall, and then quickly withdrew the application after a state lawmaker raised concerns. “Many communities ...
Solidarity Doesn’t Suck
I love this story. Kevin Burkhart, pastor of United Methodist Church in Curtis, Neb.—known as “Rev. Kev”—shaved his head to show solidarity with two members of the congregation who are ...
I Have a Dream
The 86-year-old evangelist Billy Graham was named by pastors across the board as having the greatest influence on churches and being the most trusted spokesperson for Christianity, according to a ...
Behavioral Marketing
I was reading a post titled “News from Australia” on Seth Godin’s blog (author of the marketing books Purple Cow and Free Prize Inside) a few days ago. The second ...
