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:

public-relations Article
February 8, 2007

Avoiding & Addressing Criticism

Poor Phil. I can’t help but feel for his predicament (an anti-semitic church ad), and it made me wonder what can be learned from it (i.e., I feel somewhat guilty ...

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examples Article
February 7, 2007

The Anti-Anti-Semitic Church Ad that was Anti-Semitic

Despite our title, it’s not often that we rag on specific churches for their marketing efforts. We’ve yet to offer a ‘worst church marketing blunders of the year’ list, but ...

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technology Article

Church Web Site Design Checklist

With Internet Evangelism Day fast approaching (April 29, 2007) you might want to check out the Church Site Design Checklist. It’s an automated 51-question survey that will help you figure ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
February 6, 2007

Multisite Churches Spreading Across D.C.

“We as a congregation made a decision that if we are going to embrace people, we must leave the four walls of the church.” – Rev. Deron Cloud, founder of ...

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poll-results Article

Church Blogs II Poll

A little more than a year ago we asked about church blogging. Since the book The Blogging Church: Sharing the Story of Your Church Through Blogs by Brian Bailey and ...

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church-business Article
February 5, 2007

Visitors, Beer and Sex–Oh My!

Yet again the links have piled up around me faster than I can blog them, so it’s time to blow the dam and just let you have them. Here we ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
February 4, 2007

Official NFL Church Super Bowl Parties

Or maybe the solution to the NFL sacking church Super Bowl ™ parties is to get organized. What if church Super Bowl ™ parties were officially sanctioned events? A church ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
February 3, 2007

NFL Bans Church Super Bowl Parties

Tomorrow is the Super Bowl, in case you didn’t know (I had to look it to be sure, so don’t feel bad), and amid all the stories about commercials and ...

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demographicsresearch Article
February 2, 2007

Christians Lie with Data

“You can make up statistics for anything. 14% of all people know that.” Those are some of my favorite words from the philosopher Homer J. Simpson, and they’re painfully true. Christianity ...

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poll-results Article
January 30, 2007

Innovative Church Poll

To go along with our Innovative Church series we opted to do a little poll to find out how innovative your church is. The results are not that encouraging. The majority ...

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poll-results Article
January 25, 2007

Cool Ideas Poll

Last week we asked about cool church promotional ideas, and while Chipotle is always tasty, nothing beats simply walking the walk. It’s hardly a promotional idea so it’s kind of ...

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philosophy Article
January 19, 2007

The Most Innovative Churches

Part 1 in a series on Innovative Churches Outreach magazine recently released a list of America’s most innovative churches. Outreach magazine and Simply Strategic guy Tony Morgan came up with the ...

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events Article
January 18, 2007

NRB’s Reach 2007 Conference

Our very own Brad Abare will be speaking at the NRB’s 2007 Reach Conference next month in Orlando, Fla. The conference is February 17-19 and Brad will be headlining the ...

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off-the-wall Article

Church Walls as Billboards: Your Ad Here

“Your Ad Here” and “Your Corporate Logo Here” displayed alternately for two and a half hours on the side of the Cathedral of our Lady of Angels in Los Angeles, ...

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news-updates Article
January 16, 2007

Top 59 Smartest Organizations Online

Our non-profit parent, the Center for Church Communication, was just named one of the Top 59 Smartest Organizations Online. You can read more about it at the CFCC blog. Whoa. We’re ...

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