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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.
The Growth of Black Churches in the U.K.
A BBC article on black worshippers in the U.K. says that people of African or Caribbean origin make up 2% of the U.K. population, but account for 7% of church ...
Leadership Journal: Church Marketing Hoovers
If you check out the summer 2005 issue of Leadership Journal you’ll stumble across a little blurb about your favorite vacuum-themed web site. The piece, titled Church Marketing Hoovers, gives ...
The Christian Imitation
Have you ever seen a “got pepsi?” T-shirt? No. Do you know why? Because Pepsi—and any other company and organization worth their salt—is smart enough to come up with something original. They ...
Mega Churches: Act of God or Marketing?
A recent article looks at mega churches and asks why they’re growing. Is it God, as most of the churches would say, or is it marketing, like the academics say? ...
Marketing without Marketing
I came across this interview with David A. Anderson, Senior Pastor of Bridgeway Community Church in Columbia, Md., in Church Executive magazine in an article focusing on racial unity. This ...
The Case of the Missing Church Members
Remember Encyclopedia Brown? He was cool. Solving all those complicated cases with quick thinking. Maybe the Southern Baptist Convention should call Encyclopedia. You see, they’re missing 10 million members. Of the ...
The Importance of Punctuation
Signs at bus stops in North Miami Beach declared: Say ‘NO’ to Drugs from the NMB Police D.A.R.E Officers. See what happens when you don’t pay attention to grammar? A simple lack ...
Telling Stories
It’s no secret that Jesus’ use of parables in the New Testament continues to draw parallels to present day story telling. Using the arts—theater, photography, movies, books, and more—generation after ...
Church Marketing Sucks Celebrates One Year Online
Happy Birthday! Today is the one-year anniversary of Church Marketing Sucks. You may have noticed a redesign as part of the festivities. We also sent out a press ...
Extreme Faith Bulletin
You may have noticed that we launched a new section, Peer Review. In the past we’ve done some marketing reviews, but they were often scattered, not officially submitted, and not ...
Ministry in Motion Interview
Seems like we forgot to mention an interview with our very own Kevin D. Hendricks (hey, that’s me!) that appeared in the e-zine Ministry in Motion back in May. I ...
Church Signs that Suck
A couple weeks ago we were pointed to Crummy Church Signs, a site that lists bad church sign slogans. Nothing like a kindred spirit. Check out a few of the ...
Church Communications Minister Gene Mason
Gene Mason is the Communications Minister at the 5,000-member The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala. He’s been doing communications ministry in local churches for 18 years, and this ...
Search Engine Marketing for Churches
Last week we talked about a church successfully using keyword advertising. The story was mentioned in an article from the Search Engine Guide and covers churches and search engine marketing. ...
Bob Lutz: Jump Into Blogging
Some days I feel like I’m beating a dead horse, but in case you’ve missed our previous calls for pastors to blog, maybe you’ll listen to General Motors vice chairman ...
