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Archive for May 2005
Church Sign Trivia
Just when you thought church signs couldn’t get any weirder, two churches in Stillwater, Minn. are facing off in a church sign trivia contest. Rev. Steve Molin of Our Savior’s ...
Drive-Thru Church
The Metropolitan Church of the Quad Cities in Davenport, Iowa offered drive-thru church this weekend, offering visitors communion, the day’s scripture, a take-home homily and a free gift. “People will be ...
Graphic Design Resources
Nick Ciske over at Creative Church has been posting tons of free resources for designers: Briar Press – A collection of free wood cuts and initial caps to add a touch ...
Street Teams for the Church
Stephen Brewster of Calvary Christian Center in Ormond Beach, Fla. e-mailed us about the promotional teams their churches uses to get the word out. The voluntary “street teams” are given cards, ...
Creating Passionate Users
This is more of a business-type blog, but Creating Passionate Users has plenty of lessons for the church as well. Jonathan Blundell points us to and expands on their entries ...
How Blogging Can Help the Church
We’ve said it before, but sometimes it helps to hear it from someone else: Lifeway offers four ways blogging can help the church, based on the BusinessWeek article, “Blogs Will ...
Pastor Says Quran Should Be Flushed
The Rev. Creighton Lovelace of Danieltown Baptist Church in Forest City, N.C. says the Muslim Quran should be flushed. And a sign in front of the church broadcasts that message ...
Flowers in the Churchyard
This isn’t strictly church marketing, but I think it eventually gets around to marketing implications. Pat Kahnke, the pastor of St. Paul Fellowship Church in St. Paul, Minn., blogged about ...
Jesus Talks to Me Every Sunday Morning
Every Sunday morning here in Los Angeles, Jesus Christ gets behind a microphone. He takes calls and answers questions about his divinity, humanity and everything in ...
MinistryCOM Church Communications Conference
Last month we asked about getting church marketers together, and there was a lot of interest. One possible opportunity might be MinistryCOM. It’s a ministry communications conference put on by ...
BusinessWeek Goes to Church
Evangelicals landed on the cover of BusinessWeek as they explore the booming business of church. But before you get too excited it’s more an overview of megachurches and Christianity in ...
Church Blogging
Brian Bailey, the Internet Manager for Fellowship Church in Dallas, was interviewed by Shel Israel for the forthcoming business blogging book by Israel and Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble (chapter 5 ...
Evangelism & IT Lessons by Robert Scoble
Not sure how we missed this (probably because it pre-dates us), but last year Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble visited Fellowship Church in Dallas and wrote the Ten Evangelism and IT ...
Church Marketing Plans & Costs from Major Denominations
Tim Bednar tips us off to a post at Harbinger quoting the Washington Post (follow all that?) about church marketing plans and costs from the major denominations: Denomination: United Methodist ChurchSlogan ...
Church Stolen
Point Hope United Methodist Church in Mount Pleasant, S.C. faced a unique challenge when their church was stolen. Their church was housed in a trailer which they parked and locked ...
