Church Marketing Sucks

Church Doesn’t Suck Billboard

Apparently it’s church billboard week. First it was “Satan “ in the copy, and now it’s “Sucks.” GracePoint Church in Wichita, Kan. has launched a billboard campaign that’s drawing criticism, ...

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Yahoo! Real Estate and The Church

Yahoo! Real Estate’s new tool, Neighborhood Profile, provides an interesting tool for an often overlooked necessity in the church–cross-cultural ministry. The tool lists factors such as average income, average family ...

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Satan Hates Life

Lifechurch.tv launched a new billboard campaign recently that’s pretty creative. I’ve seen billboards for churches before and I’ve liked, well, none of them. This might change my mind. The time ...

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Grade Your Church Poll

Last week, we asked you, scholarly CMS reader, to grade your churches on their marketing efforts. Upon receiving the grades and entering them into our computers, the averages were less ...

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Parade of Churches

Emergent Village is coordinating the Twin Cities Parade of Churches. It’s mostly focusing on those wacky emergent churches, but what a great idea to get people together to experience, discuss ...

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Church Staff Split Over ‘Sucks’

Oh, LarkNews, a site after my own heart. You know our pain and you let us chuckle together: Staff Split Over ‘Sucks’ (link via Mike Atkinson)…

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Churches Talk About Sex (Gasp!)

That incredibly illicit image of two pairs of naked feet hanging off the edge of a bed from Granger Community Church’s My Lame Sex Life campaign is getting around. Lately ...

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End of the Series on Innovative Churches

Today we’ve officially wrapped up our series on Innovative Churches, featuring the Squidoo-powered and user-submitted list of innovative churches (currently at 65 churches) and our own Brad Abare’s responses to ...

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Innovative Churches: Measures & the Future

Part 10 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. How will we know if innovation is working? How should we measure the ...

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Awards Poll

Last week we ran a story about an Amarillo, Texas church that won a best in show Addy Award. Not too shabby. So we wondered how many other churches were ...

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Cute, Clever and Cool

One of my daily blog reads is Signal vs. Noise from the folks behind 37signals. Not only do I use a few of their products (personally and professionally), I really ...

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Presentation Matters

Relevant has an interesting online article on The Commercial Church. It argues for pretty much the opposite of what we say here, but I always find these articles interesting and ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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