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Archive for June 2009
You Can’t Advertise Problems Away: Ad Campaigns of the Mainline Denominations
U.S. News & World Report covers the shrinking mainline denominations and their desperate attempts to re-brand. It’s pretty much the same story we’ve heard for a while now, but a ...
Bring Your Gun to Church Day
Pastor Ken Pagano of New Bethel Church in Louisville, Ky., is encouraging members to bring their handguns to church for an “Open Carry Celebration” Sunday. The event will include patriotic ...
Your Advertising Poll Results
I originate from the deep south. The suburbs mind you, but I’m only about 10 miles–or two generations–from south so deep that even the word “south” has three syllables. Down ...
How Technology Can Help Your Church
I’m a fan of cool technology. I like Twitter. I watch Lost on my laptop. I don’t have a landline. Seeing the church take advantage of new technologies to spread ...
Less Clutter, Less Noise: Beyond Bulletins, Brochures and Bake Sales
As soon as I read the title, I knew that this was a book I needed to read. Kem Meyer, communication director at Granger Community Church, gives practical and simple ...
Is Christmas Dreams a Church Marketing Nightmare?
It looks like Covenant Community Church is up to some big business in Christmas, Fla. They want to open Christmas Dreams, a Santa-themed park for terminally ill children and their ...
Ed Young: The Cussing Pastor
Fellowship Church’s Ed Young sparked a conversation about pastors using profanity in this video. Before you get completely shocked, his definition of profanity is pretty broad, including words like “crap,” ...
Lessons from Stale Lake
This video created by Eagle Brook Church in Minnesota watches like a laundry list of church communication screw-ups. The video, entitled A Visit to Stale Lake, positions itself to poke fun ...
Being Sticky Poll Results
A while ago, we talked about the book Sticky Church, but we never really answered what churches are practically doing to “close the back door” in the context of guests. ...
Blogging Church Members on Your Site
North Haven Church has a blog called Fresh Blog, focusing on daily insights from the Bible and a quick prayer you could offer up to God. This is a really neat ...
