Church Marketing Sucks

Invitations Poll Results

The question is a little bit awkward, and it can feel like you’re about to get in trouble. “Have you invited anyone to church recently?” For me, memories of youth ...

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We’re on Facebook

We’ve recently been diving into the world of social media and content as status updates with our foray into Twitter. Now we’ve joined the Facebook bandwagon as well, utilizing much ...

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Nov. 8th: Orphan Sunday

In October, we didn’t really get any church holidays. In all fairness, it’s a busy season. With fall festivals, trunk or treats, harvest fairs and tribulation trails, there’s very little ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Themed Lobbies & Christmas Coming Early

It’s been awhile since we’ve rounded up all the shenanigans going on in the Church Marketing Lab, so we thought we’d let you know what’s been going on. Discussions have ...

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America’s Giving Challenge

The Case Foundation just kicked off a month long fund raising effort with America’s Giving Challenge. They’re giving away $150,000 in prize money to charities that can mobilize the most ...

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Values of the CFCC Community

This is a follow up to my post earlier this week about the purpose of the Center for Church Communication (CFCC). Communicating the values and purpose of CFCC are in ...

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CMS on Twitter Poll Results

I’m sure most of you have noticed, but in case you haven’t: Church Marketing Sucks recently joined the Twitter party. Since then, we’ve made tons of new friends, shared some ...

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Purpose of the CFCC Community

As a follow up to my post last week about purpose, values, vision and mission, it seems appropriate to communicate the purpose and values of the Center for Church Communication ...

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Leadership Lessons from the Nines

About a month ago the Leadership Network hosted the Nines web conference on Sept. 9, 2009. It was a day-long event of over 70 leaders sharing lessons via nine minute ...

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Thanks to Clover, faithHighway, Integrity Music and Wix

We need to give a big shout out of thanks to our current CFCC Ad Network members: Clover provides affordable web sites for churches. faithHighway helps churches reach their communities with web ...

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Purpose, Values, Vision & Mission

If you’re like me, whenever you hear words like “vision,” “values,” “purpose” and “mission,” your eyes start to glaze over. Then your ears start ringing with all of the vision/mission/purpose/values ...

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Boycotting Poll Results

If you follow us on Twitter, you might have noticed a story we linked to about a church from Florida who was removing all of their Pepsi machines to protest ...

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We’re Sorry, One More Time

Recently, I gave a little bit of a rough time to Christian apologists. All too often, I’ve found myself wanting to apologize because it’s the cool thing to do in ...

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Lord, Save Us From Your Followers

This weekend, my wife and I ventured out to the Portland screening of Lord, Save Us From Your Followers after some high praises from our own Brad Abare and friend ...

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Cultivate 2009: See you in Chicago!

I’ve said it before: The best part of conferences aren’t the speakers, it’s the relationships and conversations that happen at the conference. A new conference, Cultivate, has embraced that and ...

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