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Archive for March 2009
We Hate Church Too … As Usual
There’s a story that caught my attention, raises some questions and points to a trend in some church circles. A church has launched a campaign that includes billboards that read “We ...
10 Things to Fix on Your Church Web Site
Kem Meyer recently linked to the WebDrivenChurch.com’s entry on why church web sites can suck. As they looked through thousands of church web sites while updating a database, they came ...
Would You Put Your Pastor in a Box?
One church would, and they’re even aiming too. In a David Blaine-esque stunt, they’ve promised to suspend their pastor in a box for three days if 4,000 people show up ...
Sustainable Farming Lessons From Churches
Your church doesn’t have to lead the entire country of Cambodia to Christ. I’d like to go ahead and extend you that permission. Perhaps your church doesn’t have the money ...
Worthy is the…Labrador?
Here’s another one for the “And We Wonder Why We’re Hated” conversation… Matthew Paul Turner, the recovering churched boy, wrote a post earlier this week about an imaginary conversation between mother ...
Church Marketing Lab: Easter, Moving and More
Coming up in two weeks, we have one of the biggest holidays for churches and church marketers. More people are willing to come to church on Easter than any other ...
Passing the Plate Poll Results
Treasurers love it, and visitors dread it. There are tons of problems with passing the plate: what the heck do you do to fill that time from the stage? What ...
Reacting When the Recession Hits Hardest
NPR has the story of one church’s reaction to the recession. Despite being themselves affected by layoffs and cutbacks, one church decided what really mattered was making a difference in the ...
Church Marketing Lab: Aliens, Hong Kong Graphics and More
We’ve heard from church marketers in South Africa, England, Belgium and Australia before. In the Church Marketing Lab, we see British art and discussion pass through from time-to-time. But this ...
Church Marketing Fears Poll Results
Many of you who are reading this are involved in churches where marketing isn’t ever approached. And when it is approached, it’s with about as much caution as is humanly ...
The Message of Giving
Christian History has an interesting little article exploring the recent history of the offering in church services. The article covers government-supported churches (that’s right, here in the U.S. of A. ...
Why Criticism Is A Good Thing
One of the challenges to working with the church is some of the very opinionated feedback you receive from the pastor, committee, etc. When you get criticism what do you ...
Lose Your Job, Get Your Offering Back
Generous News has the story of one church who is making a guarantee: If you lose your job, we’ll give your offering back. It’s reminiscent of the Hyundai Assurance, if ...
To Text or Not to Text?
Text messaging has changed the way we communicate. I text message people more than I actually talk with them. In fact, my cell phone plan has the lowest amount of ...
Worldy Words Poll Results
From time to time, we hear arguments that church marketing is bad, evil or sinful. Most of these folks posit that marketing is inherently a bad thing as it supports ...
