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Archive for February 2007
Battling Frumpiness in the Pulpit
She could have called the site Church Fashion Sucks. But Beauty Tips for Ministers works, too. Victoria Weinstein, a Unitarian Universalist minister who goes by the handle PeaceBang, launched the ...
Stand-Up Comic Helps UK Clergy
Comedian Andy Kind is offering help to British clergy with a workshop that focuses on performance skills in an effort to help them better communicate with their congregations. “Christianity is not ...
Megachurches are Desegregating Sunday Mornings
You can deride megachurches all you want, but new research shows that they’re more racially diverse, finally beginning to overturn the assertion that Sunday morning is the most segregated hour ...
They Didn’t Teach Marketing In Seminary
Rev. Matthew Moretz laments that they didn’t teach him marketing in seminary, despite the fact that he does more print jobs than sermons. But considering the success of his Father ...
Innovative Churches: Does Size Matter?
Part 9 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. Does size matter? What about smaller churches and those with limited financial resources? ...
Unnecessary Church Ministries Poll
Last week our poll asked about unnecessary church ministries, an admittedly tongue-in-cheek follow up to a pro and con discussion about cutting back on what churches do. The giant Jesus/cross ...
10 [Cheap] Ad Ideas from Roy H. Williams
If you’re not already getting the Monday Morning Memo from adman Roy H. Williams, you’re missing out. Not only is Williams a brilliant pithy writer, he’s got one of the ...
Amarillo Church Wins Addy Award
An Amarillo, Texas church snagged a best in show (registration requried) at the Addy Awards for the second year in a row. Trinity Fellowship Church won the local division of ...
Innovative Churches: Community
Part 8 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. How are innovative churches trying to engage and impact their communities outside the ...
Marketing to Agnostics and Not Atheists
I was giving a demo about online church communities at the Community Next Conference recently. I opened with a comparison of churches and schools–namely, that there are more Christian churches ...
Church Critics Poll
Last week we asked how your church deals with criticism. An amazing 45% said their church tackles criticism head on with honesty and openness. 27% said criticism was met with ...
Churches Should Not Just Do What Works
Last week Kevin wrote an entry about something Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv said regarding sticking to what works. While I appreciate the intentionality of getting rid of unnecessary activity, there ...
Churches Should Do What Works
LifeChurch.tv’s Craig Groeschel talks about cutting back church ministries. What?! No VBS? No choir? No women’s ministry? (gasp) I love his simple and calm reasoning that churches should do what works ...
Testimony Billboards
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports on a church billboard campaign that’s personal. Love this quote: “Marketing and evangelism are the same thing,” says Mara Einstein, associate professor of media studies at the ...
Stopping the Comment Spam
We’ve instituted a new measure to fight comment spam. When you post a comment you’ll be asked to type a word to verify that you’re a real person commenting and ...
