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The Come Back Effect: How Hospitality Can Compel Your Church’s Guests to Return by Jason Young & Jonathan Malm
In The Comeback Effect, we are asked to think about the connections we make with guests through their experiences. What exactly is hospitality? How do we practice it intentionally? And why is this so important for church growth?
December 17, 2019
Time to Dream It All up Again
We’re taking a break to go away and dream it all up again. But the archives are here and we've got other helpful initiatives.
Thank you. Keep telling the greatest story ever told.
MinistryCOM 2009 Recap
Two weeks ago the MinistryCOM conference came together outside Chicago, kicking off the Fall church communication event schedule (seriously–have you checked out the fall line up?). Our own Brad Abare ...
Catholics Come Home: The Role of Denominations
It looks like the Catholic church is ramping up their “Catholics Come Home” campaign. The LA Times reported that the diocese of Sacramento is “preparing to air several thousand prime-time ...
The Case for a Communications Director
Tim Schraeder is exploring a simple question: should churches hire full-time communications staffers? Admittedly, he’s got a bit of a bias, being the director of communications at Park Community Church ...
Is Advertising a Silly Place to Spend?
Thousand of churches in Australia are about to embark in “Christianity’s largest ever Australian advertising push.” But one lecturer in consumer behavior and advertising says that this money is being spent ...
Follow-Up to the Rick Warren/Spec Work Debate
On Thursday evening we posted an entry trying to address the issue of spec work through the current example of Rick Warren’s book cover design contest. In less than 24 ...
An Open Letter to Rick Warren about Spec Work
Editor’s Note: We closed the comments on this post as they took a turn for the worse. We explained our reasoning for closing comments and the rationale for this post ...
Church Coaches & Reviewing the Pay-for-a-Mentor Model
Have you noticed what could be the latest trend in the church world? Coaching. Seems like all the big names have been drafted, including Kem Meyer, Tony Morgan, Greg Surratt ...
We’re Sorry, Again and Again
Recently, Just Wallpaper published an open letter to those who have been burned by churches. I’ve either heard or seen similar apologies other places, and I just can’t decide how ...
Faith in Action Day
A sad reality is that 97% of evangelical Christians will die without ever sharing their faith (Which calls the term “evangelical” into question, eh?), so on Sunday, Outreach, Inc. tried ...
Abercrombie & Church
The September 14 print edition of Fortune magazine had an article (no link) by Beth Kowitt on how mall owners have been thinking “outside of the (big) box” when it ...
Church Marketing Lab: Seeing Improvement
We always talk about how the community of the Church Marketing Lab can help improve your communications work. Well, how about we prove it? Check out how these pieces have ...
Helping People Find a Church: 25 Fair Warnings for Visitors
Scott McClellan over at Collide magazine talks about the coolest thing he’s seen on a church web site. What is it? A feature that helps visitors find a church by ...
We’re on Twitter
After much suggesting and prodding we’ve finally joined the Twitter party as an organization. You can follow us here: @cmsucks. We’re hoping to share short-form content that doesn’t necessarily warrant ...
The 3d Retreat: Sept. 25-26 in Holland, Mich.
It’s been a while since we’ve discussed Local Labs on Church Marketing Sucks, but we want you to know that some of them are still going strong. Don’t believe us? ...
