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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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Relevance, Tech Matters & -onomics, Church
May 25, 2006

Relevance, Tech Matters & -onomics, Church

In the recent weeks I’ve stumbled across a few more church resources you may want to add to your list. Church RelevanceWritten by Kent Schaffer of Bombay Creative, Church Relevance covers ...

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24/7 Church
May 25, 2006

24/7 Church

Whenever one is down there seems to be a supply of 24/7 places to help you out with a snack and coffee. Why can’t this be the case with the church? ...

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Non-Profit Pricing from Adobe
May 24, 2006

Non-Profit Pricing from Adobe

When it comes to graphic design software, Adobe’s Creative Suite is pretty much the industry standard. But it doesn’t come cheap ($900 list price). So ChurchMedia.net has started a petition asking ...

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Poddy Talk
May 23, 2006

Poddy Talk

Earlier this month, a colleague and I toured the facilities of a church in Los Angeles County. The church property was tucked away in a residential area, had decent parking, ...

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Church Marketing Lab Round Up #8
May 19, 2006

Church Marketing Lab Round Up #8

The Church Marketing Lab. Have you heard about it? 211 other people have, and they’re taking part in the Great Commission by helping churches communicate better so they can reach ...

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MinistryCom Awards
May 19, 2006

MinistryCom Awards

This year’s MinistryCom conference will also include the first ever Excellence in Communications Awards. It’s a chance for churches to be recognized for creating marketing that doesn’t suck. Categories include outreach ...

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MinistryCom 2006
May 19, 2006

MinistryCom 2006

The MinistryCom church communication conference is coming to Phoenix Sept. 7-8, 2006. It’s billed as the only national conference catering to church communication professionals and this year’s conference includes an ...

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Churches Respond to The DaVinci Code
May 18, 2006

Churches Respond to The DaVinci Code

In the past few weeks I’ve talked to the L.A. Times, Fox News and Court TV’s Crier Live. It all started with The DaVinci Code. I worked with a church ...

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Seacoast All Access
May 17, 2006

Seacoast All Access

Seacoast Church in South Carolina is adopting an open-source policy for their resources and making them available online. Seacoast All Access is where you can get messages, bulletin covers, e-vites, ...

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Web 2.0 Series Wrap-Up
May 17, 2006

Web 2.0 Series Wrap-Up

For the past month and a half we’ve been looking at the web 2.0 trend and what it could mean for your church. We’ve looked at the highs and lows, ...

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Wall Street Journal on Church Tech
May 17, 2006

Wall Street Journal on Church Tech

We’ll go from west coast to east coast today as the Wall Street Journal covers technology in churches. The piece focuses on churches trying new methods, like MySpace and Flickr ...

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L.A. Times on Church Marketing
May 16, 2006

L.A. Times on Church Marketing

The L.A. Times covered church marketing and technology today in an article called “God’s Call Comes by Cellphone”. A few interesting quotes include: “We dare not change the Gospel. But the ...

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How Your Church Can Ignore Web 2.0
May 16, 2006

How Your Church Can Ignore Web 2.0

Part 8 in a series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Almost a month and a half ago we started talking about web 2.0 and what it could mean ...

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Church Marketing Lab Round Up #7
May 13, 2006

Church Marketing Lab Round Up #7

It’s a lazy Saturday and no one else is blogging, so head on over to the Church Marketing Lab and offer feedback to some church communicators trying not to suck ...

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King of the Hill Goes to Church
May 11, 2006

King of the Hill Goes to Church

How about a little pop culture perspective on church shopping and the ever-popular mega-church? Check out this clip of the Hill family going church shopping on King of the Hill ...

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