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:

peer-review Article
May 19, 2006

Church Marketing Lab Round Up #8

The Church Marketing Lab. Have you heard about it? 211 other people have, and they’re taking part in the Great Commission by helping churches communicate better so they can reach ...

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graphic-design Article

MinistryCom Awards

This year’s MinistryCom conference will also include the first ever Excellence in Communications Awards. It’s a chance for churches to be recognized for creating marketing that doesn’t suck. Categories include outreach ...

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events Article

MinistryCom 2006

The MinistryCom church communication conference is coming to Phoenix Sept. 7-8, 2006. It’s billed as the only national conference catering to church communication professionals and this year’s conference includes an ...

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resources Article
May 17, 2006

Seacoast All Access

Seacoast Church in South Carolina is adopting an open-source policy for their resources and making them available online. Seacoast All Access is where you can get messages, bulletin covers, e-vites, ...

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technology Article

Web 2.0 Series Wrap-Up

For the past month and a half we’ve been looking at the web 2.0 trend and what it could mean for your church. We’ve looked at the highs and lows, ...

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demographicsresearch Article

Wall Street Journal on Church Tech

We’ll go from west coast to east coast today as the Wall Street Journal covers technology in churches. The piece focuses on churches trying new methods, like MySpace and Flickr ...

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demographicsresearch Article
May 16, 2006

L.A. Times on Church Marketing

The L.A. Times covered church marketing and technology today in an article called “God’s Call Comes by Cellphone”. A few interesting quotes include: “We dare not change the Gospel. But the ...

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technology Article

How Your Church Can Ignore Web 2.0

Part 8 in a series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Almost a month and a half ago we started talking about web 2.0 and what it could mean ...

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poll-results Article
May 15, 2006

Church Marketing Lab Poll

Last week we asked about the Church Marketing Lab, our church communications critique group that replaced the old peer review section. 26% of you are members of the lab and ...

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peer-review Article
May 13, 2006

Church Marketing Lab Round Up #7

It’s a lazy Saturday and no one else is blogging, so head on over to the Church Marketing Lab and offer feedback to some church communicators trying not to suck ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
May 12, 2006

Hug Your Customers by Jack Mitchell

Does your church hug your visitors? Well, not actually physically hug your visitors—that’s fraught with touch-feely vibes and is going way too far over that safe church line—but does your ...

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off-the-wall Article
May 11, 2006

King of the Hill Goes to Church

How about a little pop culture perspective on church shopping and the ever-popular mega-church? Check out this clip of the Hill family going church shopping on King of the Hill ...

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brand-identity Article

What Kind of Car is Your Church?

So often we like to think of church as a great big family reunion. People come together regardless of class, race, income, education or geography. But if you take a ...

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news-updates Article
May 10, 2006

Lens of the Day

Yesterday our Church Marketing Sucks lens on Squidoo was picked as the Lens of the Day. Not too shabby. If you’re checking us out for the first time, welcome aboard. ...

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philosophy Article
May 9, 2006

Authentic Not Slick

Mike Sares, pastor and founder of Scum of the Earth church in Denver–a church full of mohawks, piercings and the kind of alternative crowd not usually sighted in church–nicely summed ...

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