Kevin D. Hendricks

When Kevin isn't busy as the editor of Church Marketing Sucks, he runs his own writing and editing company, Monkey Outta Nowhere. Kevin has been blogging since 1998, runs the hyperlocal site West St. Paul Reader, and has published several books, including 137 Books in One Year: How to Fall in Love With Reading, The Stephanies and all of our church communication books.

Kevin D. Hendricks's Posts:

CFCC Founder Brad Abare on Social Media & Still Sucking
November 22, 2010

CFCC Founder Brad Abare on Social Media & Still Sucking

A Q&A with our own founder, consultant and church communication guy Brad Abare. We talk about where CFCC is going and if church marketing still sucks.

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NaNoWriMo for Church Communication Projects
November 17, 2010

NaNoWriMo for Church Communication Projects

National Novel Writing Month helps authors overcome the inertia and start writing that novel. What if churches did the same thing with communication projects?

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Phil Cooke: Media & the Church
November 15, 2010

Phil Cooke: Media & the Church

A Q&A with CFCC board member and media guru Phil Cooke. We talk about what the church can learn from Hollywood and how churches can communicate better.

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Firestarter: Know Who You Are
November 10, 2010

Firestarter: Know Who You Are

Luke Dusek, from Firestarter recipient Bloom in St. Paul, Minn., shares a video lesson in knowing who you are as a church.

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Homeless Advocate Mark Horvath on Church Marketing
November 9, 2010

Homeless Advocate Mark Horvath on Church Marketing

In the midst of his own homelessness crisis Mark Horvath launched InvisiblePeople.tv. We talk with Mark about outreach, marketing and homeless ministry.

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Marketing Lessons from Muslims
November 3, 2010

Marketing Lessons from Muslims

A Muslim perspective on church marketing?! Yep. We talk with Eboo Patel about multi-faith dialogue and countering negative publicity, something the church could always learn from.

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Lessons from Political Marketing
November 1, 2010

Lessons from Political Marketing

Tuesday is election day in the United States. Go vote. And then learn a thing or two about how not to communicate from the current glut of political marketing.

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Trick or Treat: What Message Does Your Church Send on Halloween?
October 28, 2010

Trick or Treat: What Message Does Your Church Send on Halloween?

This year Halloween falls on a Sunday, prompting churches to wrestle with that age-old question: Do we hand out candy with communion?

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Talking Social Media with Justin Wise
September 27, 2010

Talking Social Media with Justin Wise

We sit down with Justin Wise, the man behind BeDeviant.com and the upcoming Social Media Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, to talk social media.

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Church Signs on 100 Huntley Street
September 16, 2010

Church Signs on 100 Huntley Street

Our own Josh Cody appeared in a story on the Canadian talk show 100 Huntley Street about the effectiveness of church signs.

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Rod Parsley’s Airplane: Lessons in Financial Communication
September 13, 2010

Rod Parsley’s Airplane: Lessons in Financial Communication

We find lessons in financial communication for local churches from a fundraising plea by megachurch pastor and televangelist Rod Parsley asking for $1 million to buy an airplane.

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Web-based Ministry: Investment or Expense?
September 1, 2010

Web-based Ministry: Investment or Expense?

Our own Cynthia Ware discusses some participatory media best practices, explores obstacles, remedies to resistance and challenges us to get our Google on!

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The NINES: 6 Questions, $10 Off
August 30, 2010

The NINES: 6 Questions, $10 Off

Insights and lessons from marketing The NINES, an online church leadership conference coming Sept. 9, including a $10 discount.

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Live Webinar with Cynthia Ware
August 17, 2010

Live Webinar with Cynthia Ware

Check out a live webinar with our own Cynthia Ware today on M2Live at 11:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. PDT).

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Twitter Lessons from Rick Warren
August 16, 2010

Twitter Lessons from Rick Warren

Last week Rick Warren challenged any church in America to a who’s godlier contest with a tweet that gives us a chance to learn some social media lessons.

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