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The Come Back Effect: How Hospitality Can Compel Your Church’s Guests to Return by Jason Young & Jonathan Malm

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?

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Church Marketing Lab: Sorry Church Site, God is Green and More
September 17, 2007

Church Marketing Lab: Sorry Church Site, God is Green and More

This week in the Church Marketing Lab, the discussion board was crazy with a couple long threads, and the photo pool saw some great new submissions. Now that we’ve given ...

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A Visitor’s Perspective: An Embarrassing Problem
September 13, 2007

A Visitor’s Perspective: An Embarrassing Problem

This is part 2 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...

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Franchising Church
September 12, 2007

Franchising Church

We’re living in modern times. Everything is outsourced, and everything is franchised. Why should church be any different? Todd Rhoades at Monday Morning Insight discusses this model of church planting ...

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Church from a Visitor’s Perspective
September 11, 2007

Church from a Visitor’s Perspective

This is part 1 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. Here’s a little of my back-story: I was a church planter for a number of years, ...

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Free Site Giveaway
September 10, 2007

Free Site Giveaway

Calling all church plants, upstarts and new ministries. We wanted to let you know that HotPress Web a Denver, Colo. based web marketing company is donating a custom web site ...

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Internet Ministry Conference… You Going?
September 8, 2007

Internet Ministry Conference… You Going?

Last week I mentioned that I will be in Nashville on September 13-14 for MinistryCOM 2007. The week following, on September 19-22, I will be at the Internet Ministry Conference ...

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Skipping Summer Sundays?
September 5, 2007

Skipping Summer Sundays?

An interesting story came to me via Slice of Laodicea about how one church handles their summer services. For June, July and August, the San Francisco Journey moved to a once-monthly ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Painted Cars, the 80s and More
August 31, 2007

Church Marketing Lab: Painted Cars, the 80s and More

This week in the Church Marketing Lab, we had another great week of logos, series designs, fliers and more. Below, you’ll see something that I think might have been a ...

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MinistryCOM 2007… You Going?
August 30, 2007

MinistryCOM 2007… You Going?

There are only a handful of days until the 2007 MinistryCOM event begins in Nashville. In addition to a bunch of other really cool church communication pros, yours truly has ...

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My Naked  Pastor
August 29, 2007

My Naked Pastor

You can certainly file this one under “Is this for real?” I’ll copy from the site, MyNakedPastor.com, here. The lead pastor, Troy Gramling, at Flamingo Road Church is getting naked! ...

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The Free Gift of God is … iPhones and Disneyland Trips?
August 27, 2007

The Free Gift of God is … iPhones and Disneyland Trips?

The free gift of God is an iPhone and a trip to Disneyland. OK, so that’s not the whole story. We’ve talked here before about churches partnering with local business. Perhaps it ...

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Church Marketing: What Not to Do
August 24, 2007

Church Marketing: What Not to Do

I’ve been collecting a few links over the past few weeks as church stories caught my attention, and in case anyone wasn’t quite sure, here are three ways not to ...

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Church Marketing Lab:
August 24, 2007

Church Marketing Lab:

It’s about time to let you guys know what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab. Everyone’s starting to show us their graphics for their fall kickoffs, and the ...

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Batterson on Marketing
August 20, 2007

Batterson on Marketing

Mark Batterson, a CMS favorite and annual interviewee, had a little to say about marketing last week in his Evotional blog. He said a few things I wanted to point ...

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Church Marketing Lab: T-Shirts, Fashion Shows and More
August 17, 2007

Church Marketing Lab: T-Shirts, Fashion Shows and More

Here we are with your weekly roundup of what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab. Check out some of the work we’ve seen this week, and then head ...

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