Church Marketing Sucks

Church Protest Called Off: Lessons in Public Relations

So Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, narrowly avoided a protest yesterday from the People Against Fundamentalism. I won’t get into all the gory details (sorry, poor ...

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Church Restaurant, Multi-Site, Entertainment

Church: Restaurant or Cooking Show? – Someone who hasn’t been to church in months went and then compared it to a cooking show where you don’t get to participate or ...

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Lessons Learned from Skipping Church

Pastor Gary Lamb of Ridge Stone Church in Georgia recently took a Sunday off (gasp!) and blogged about lessons learned from NOT attending church. Some of the best lessons have to ...

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Church Plant Poll

Last week we asked about church plants and where they should spend their money. We got quite a few responses, especially for a poll that appeared over the holidays, but ...

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CMS on Creative Synergy Podcast

If we haven’t mentioned the new Creative Synergy Podcast before, it’s worth checking out. Hosted by Greg Atkinson and Anthony Coppedge, they cover all kinds of creative issues for the ...

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CMS T-Shirts FAQs

When we announced the new CMS T-shirts late last week, the e-mails started coming in about questions you never really know people have until they ask. So below are the ...

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Purpose Driven, Branding, Telegrams and Rejected Ads

ABC dumps Assemblies of God ad – It’s a rehashing of the rejected UCC commercials, but getting much less coverage. Churches using online promotion – “We’re talking about the evolution of ...

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More Pastors on MySpace

Churches using the latest technological tool (gasp!) gets more attention with a feature from San Antonio on pastors using MySpace. The piece includes some good examples of pastors making use ...

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CMS T-Shirts Now Available in Small

We’ve responded to your demands and added small sizes to the Church Marketing Sucks store. Now you can support CMS, look ridiculously good and not drown in your T-shirt. Remember that ...

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Church Loses Domain to a Porn Site

Here’s some bad news for your marketing efforts: You lost your domain and a porn site snatched it up. Too bad you just handed out fliers at the local Apple ...

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Stewardship Poll

Last week we asked about stewardship, the dreaded sermon series topic of choice in October. 52% have a holistic approach and cover finances in general. 22% apparently need to talk ...

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The T-shirts Have Arrived

Church Marketing Sucks T-shirts are now available. We’ve been hinting, dreaming and hoping, and now we finally have some Church Marketing Sucks swag. Visit the new Church Marketing Sucks Store and ...

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Using Whipped Cream and Gay Marriage to Start Conversations

With membership declining as much as 20% in the last decade, the United Church of Canada needs to try something drastic. So they’ve launched a $9.3 million ad campaign. The ...

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Operation Christmas Child Bans Christmas to Spread the Message

It’s collection week for Operation Christmas Child, the high profile project of Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse, and while shoeboxes are being packed for kids across the world, they’re also ...

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Web Stats Poll

Last week we polled to see how many web stat addicts we had in the house, and thankfully only 17% of you were true addicts. Another 17% check their numbers ...

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