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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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Integrating Visitors into Your Church
August 12, 2005

Integrating Visitors into Your Church

There’s been plenty of discussion on our Reasons to Use Direct Mail post. One of the comments hinted at some research about visitors and I followed up with the commenter, ...

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Missions Sunday Bulletin
August 11, 2005

Missions Sunday Bulletin

It’s Missions Sunday at Westgate Chapel, or at least it was a few weeks ago. For this week’s peer review we take a look at their bulletin. You can always ...

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Australia’s “Jesus: All About Life” Campaign
August 11, 2005

Australia’s “Jesus: All About Life” Campaign

A new $250,000 marketing campaign is trying to promote Jesus to Australians. The “Jesus: All About Life” campaign has raised money from various churches and ministries and will run TV, ...

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Met Storch, Need Words
August 11, 2005

Met Storch, Need Words

This past weekend I had the privilege of spending some time with Terry Storch from Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas. If you know of Terry, you know he has just ...

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The Incredible Shrinking Megachurch
August 9, 2005

The Incredible Shrinking Megachurch

NPR covers the satellite efforts of megachurches, that have them shrinking back to smaller sizes. “It’s our desire to be a local neighborhood church again,” says Jim Tomberlin, the regional pastor ...

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The $88 Billion Church
August 9, 2005

The $88 Billion Church

The 350,000 churches, synagogues and mosques in the U.S. raked in an estimated $88.3 billion last year. That’s a lot of money. That makes religion a bigger business than say, ...

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Protesting Church Expansion
August 9, 2005

Protesting Church Expansion

And I thought growing churches conflicting with their neighbors would be an isolated deal. Maybe not. On Sunday neighbors were protesting the 4,000-member St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, Calif. ...

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Reasons to Use Direct Mail
August 9, 2005

Reasons to Use Direct Mail

The church marketing company FaithSpan has a newly redesigned web site and is offering a new section of How-To PDFs. One of the best is 9 Reasons to use Direct ...

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Church Marketing Sucks Banners
August 9, 2005

Church Marketing Sucks Banners

Spread the word about Church Marketing Sucks with our lovely assortment of banners and linking graphics. Get ’em while they last! We’ve got sizes to fit any web page and styles ...

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Image Ministries Marketing Samples
August 5, 2005

Image Ministries Marketing Samples

These are a few random samples from Image Ministries and their various marketing efforts, mainly because I couldn’t pick just one. If you’d like your stuff to get the peer ...

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Churches Using Advertising
August 5, 2005

Churches Using Advertising

The Boston Herald reports on churches using advertising, though the whopping two examples they give doesn’t illustrate the trend very well. They spend most of their time talking about the ...

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Turning Buildings into Churches
August 4, 2005

Turning Buildings into Churches

We’re not exactly a church building blog, but I think this article about churches converting old buildings instead of building new ones is pretty cool. The main motivation is that ...

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No Return
August 4, 2005

No Return

Yesterday I met with the president and his management team from a Bible college here in Southern California. They had initiated the meeting a month ago to discuss “marketing.” Even ...

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The Neighborhood Church
August 3, 2005

The Neighborhood Church

Growing churches can quickly draw the ire of surrounding neighbors, especially if churches neglect to be good neighbors—something that should be obvious for Christians. Church expansion plans can change the ...

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The Church That I See
August 3, 2005

The Church That I See

Brian Houston started a church in 1983 and one day sat down and imagined the church he’d love to pastor. That church is Hillsong, the largest independent church in Australia: Before ...

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