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Archive for August 2004
Comic Sans is NOT Okay
Trust me on this one. Neither is using any other crazy font to spice up your flyers, newsletter or anything you print. Typography is an art, and if you’re no ...
Church Web Site Suck? Try a Blog!
Church web sites can be a cemetery for outdated information and worse – spinning barrels and other animated graphics that shouldn’t be. Perhaps a blog can be the cure for ...
Punctuation Makes All the Difference
While editing announcements for my youth group’s newsletter I came across this line in a blurb about fall Sunday school classes: Parents’ sex will be discussed with the junior high Sunday ...
The Farmers Market: Is Your Church There?
I’ve been to a handful of local “farmers markets” around the U.S. and all of them are the same. Blocked-off streets in the heart of a small town, local merchants ...
Church: Why Bother?
Philip Yancey asks the question we’re all wondering in his booklet Church: Why Bother? My Personal Pilgrimage. The first chapter starts with this quote from J.F. Powers’ Wheat That Springeth ...
After these Messages… from God
Mainstream denominations are turning to TV commercials to bring people back to church. The United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, Presbyterians and Episcopalians are all exploring TV advertising, ...
“Have a Nice Day” at a Church Near You
Churches should adopt the ‘meet and greet’ style hospitality of the commercial world to welcome new visitors, according to Rev. Alison Gilchrist, a Church of England priest and her book ...
Free Valet Parking Doesn’t Suck
When construction made parking a headache at Abundant Life Church in Grapevine, Texas, church members started a free valet parking service. It began with the eldery and disabled, but now ...
10 Technologies to Watch in 2004
In November of 2003, Business 2.0 released their hot list of “10 Technologies to Watch in 2004.” Here we are in August, nearly two-thirds of the way through the year ...
Creating Church Evangelists
A big buzz in the world of business and marketing right now is the concept of word of mouth. The idea is that advertising is dying, and rather than wasting ...
Hot or Not?
In the vein of such, well vain, sites as AmIHotOrNot.com comes Hot or Not Church Sites, a site that lets you view and rate church web sites. Give each site ...
E-mail and Your Church
Do you maintain a list of e-mail addresses for everyone in your church? If not, consider some ways you could benefit from this fast, effective, and inexpensive form of communication: Save ...
I go to church.
Planned Parenthood is offering a T-shirt for upcoming pro-choice rallies with the simple statement, “I had an abortion.” The move is sparking plenty of debate and drawing fire from Christian ...
No Need to Impress
Church is a place of acceptance and love where there's no need to impress. Check perfection at the door. Which makes clamoring for excellence in church marketing a sticky proposition.
Sunday Morning Segregation
“Eleven o’clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America,” civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. declared many times, quoting evangelist Billy Graham. While that statement is more than ...
