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:

news-updates Article
November 16, 2006

The T-shirts Have Arrived

Church Marketing Sucks T-shirts are now available. We’ve been hinting, dreaming and hoping, and now we finally have some Church Marketing Sucks swag. Visit the new Church Marketing Sucks Store and ...

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advertising Article
November 15, 2006

Using Whipped Cream and Gay Marriage to Start Conversations

With membership declining as much as 20% in the last decade, the United Church of Canada needs to try something drastic. So they’ve launched a $9.3 million ad campaign. The ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
November 14, 2006

Operation Christmas Child Bans Christmas to Spread the Message

It’s collection week for Operation Christmas Child, the high profile project of Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse, and while shoeboxes are being packed for kids across the world, they’re also ...

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poll-results Article
November 13, 2006

Web Stats Poll

Last week we polled to see how many web stat addicts we had in the house, and thankfully only 17% of you were true addicts. Another 17% check their numbers ...

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link-round-up Article
November 10, 2006

YouTube, Multi-Site and Pews

Building Rockin’ Church Web Sites – Church Communications Pro Cory Miller just keeps the series coming. Projection Blues – Jim Walton at Church Tech Matters shares some simple tips for improving ...

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the-christian-walk Article
November 8, 2006

Ted Haggard and Church Marketing

It seems painfully ironic to me that the same week I posted about Christians taking each other down, we have a high profile example of Christians taking themselves down in ...

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church-business Article
November 6, 2006

The Money-Back Guaranteed Tithe

Here’s something different. LifeChurch.tv, the church with locations in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and online is offering a three-month tithing challenge. Give for three months. If God doesn’t deliver on his ...

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poll-results Article

Election Day Poll

Last week we asked about how churches should deal with politics at election time. A resounding 62% said churches should just remind their congregations to vote. 17% said politics and ...

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the-christian-walk Article
November 2, 2006

Snakes in the Pew

Too often the work of communicating the message of the church is ruined because of the people in the church. Dr. Ergun Caner shared the message “Snakes in the Pew” ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
November 1, 2006

Church People are Weird

That’s what Gary Lamb, pastor of Ridge Stone Church in Canton, Ga. says in the post that made him famous. He originally posted it last year and it resulted in ...

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poll-results Article
October 30, 2006

Halloween Poll

Last week we asked about the fall holiday that can cause some controversy in Christian circles. 34% welcome the opportunity Halloween offers to get to know their neighbors. 30% still ...

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technology Article
October 27, 2006

I Help Pastors Blog

Cory Miller is doing the ultimate Blogging for Pastors series over at Church Communications Pro. So far he’s got 44+ five-question interviews with prominent church bloggers (including all your favorites: ...

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evangelism-outreach Article

Canceling a Church Service to Do Service

This is what church is supposed to be. Gateway Community Church in South Riding, Va. had “The Big Event” on Sunday, October 15. Instead of a typical Sunday morning worship service, ...

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link-round-up Article
October 26, 2006

9 Lists for Web Designers

Some of these lists and resources are older, but they age like fine wine and can still offer some help and hope to church web designers. 8 Web Design Cliches of ...

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off-the-wall Article

The Church You Know

You’ve got to check out The Church You Know, a site that spoofs the NBC ‘The More You Know’ public service announcements with hokey digs at some goofy church practices. ...

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