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Dear Pastor College Student Essay Contest
Hey college students, Outreach magazine and Kyros Entertainment are teaming up to offer a essay contest. It’s a chance to tell pastors why churches are missing the boat when it ...
Manliness, Names & Parody
Manliness is Next to Godliness – “It’s the wuss-ification of America that’s getting us!” Churches Drop ‘Baptist’ Tag – “People tend to think of Baptists as very narrow-minded, sometimes mean-spirited and ...
Church Vandals Score Xbox
Here’s an odd little story: Three teenagers break into South Hills Evangelical Church in Missoula, Mont., steal money and smash windows and computers causing several thousand dollars in damage. In ...
CMS Store is Closed / Shirts Poll
We hope you got your CMS T-shirts if you wanted them because the Church Marketing Sucks store is now officially closed. Thanks to everyone who ordered a shirt or two ...
Last Day to Order CMS T-Shirts
This is it. Today is your last day to order Church Marketing Sucks T-shirts. After today the store will close and you’ll be out of luck. So scrape your pennies ...
Church Protest Called Off: Lessons in Public Relations
So Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, narrowly avoided a protest yesterday from the People Against Fundamentalism. I won’t get into all the gory details (sorry, poor ...
Church Restaurant, Multi-Site, Entertainment
Church: Restaurant or Cooking Show? – Someone who hasn’t been to church in months went and then compared it to a cooking show where you don’t get to participate or ...
Lessons Learned from Skipping Church
Pastor Gary Lamb of Ridge Stone Church in Georgia recently took a Sunday off (gasp!) and blogged about lessons learned from NOT attending church. Some of the best lessons have to ...
Church Plant Poll
Last week we asked about church plants and where they should spend their money. We got quite a few responses, especially for a poll that appeared over the holidays, but ...
CMS on Creative Synergy Podcast
If we haven’t mentioned the new Creative Synergy Podcast before, it’s worth checking out. Hosted by Greg Atkinson and Anthony Coppedge, they cover all kinds of creative issues for the ...
Purpose Driven, Branding, Telegrams and Rejected Ads
ABC dumps Assemblies of God ad – It’s a rehashing of the rejected UCC commercials, but getting much less coverage. Churches using online promotion – “We’re talking about the evolution of ...
More Pastors on MySpace
Churches using the latest technological tool (gasp!) gets more attention with a feature from San Antonio on pastors using MySpace. The piece includes some good examples of pastors making use ...
CMS T-Shirts Now Available in Small
We’ve responded to your demands and added small sizes to the Church Marketing Sucks store. Now you can support CMS, look ridiculously good and not drown in your T-shirt. Remember that ...
Church Loses Domain to a Porn Site
Here’s some bad news for your marketing efforts: You lost your domain and a porn site snatched it up. Too bad you just handed out fliers at the local Apple ...
Stewardship Poll
Last week we asked about stewardship, the dreaded sermon series topic of choice in October. 52% have a holistic approach and cover finances in general. 22% apparently need to talk ...
