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Kevin D. Hendricks's Posts:
What’s Working in Churches
Jordon Cooper has an intersting blog entry about wanting to rediscover stories. He’s tired of talking about what’s wrong with the church and wants to hear more stories of what’s ...
Support CMS Through Amazon
Being a non-profit implies a certain lack of cash. Church Marketing Sucks has never been and never will be about getting rich, but we do still have bills to pay. ...
Blogging Can Burn Pastors
We like blogging. That’s fairly obvious, coming from a blog, but we definitely encourage churches and pastors to blog (and we’re just waiting for that book). But you have to ...
Community Swimming Pool Built By a Church
Harvest Church in Billings, Mont. is planning to build a community swimming pool. And you thought cup holders were cool. The community has tried to pass three bond measures in ...
Cup Holders in Church
It seems like everybody likes to rag on mega-churches, but I don’t always get it. Often they’re just making smart decisions. Take Eagle Brook, the largest church in Minnesota with ...
Mega-Churches Double
Speaking of mega-churches, they’ve doubled in the last five years. There are now 1,210 churches with weekly attendance over 2,000. More info than you wanted to know about mega-churches is ...
Butts in Pews Poll Results
Last week we asked about the importance of the seating in your church. Far and away people said seating only matters in that it shouldn’t distract. 12% thought the seating ...
Pastor Uses Pepper Spray to Stop Fight
A Memphis pastor had to bust out the pepper spray when a church house brawl between kids carried over to the church bus Wednesday night. I’m going to go out on ...
Mega-Church: The Game
Imagine if you could create the church you wanted, any way you wanted. Put together a worship service exactly the way YOU want: hymns, no hymns, drums, no drums. Are you ...
Having a Baby
A week ago we posted our poll results about how to celebrate the birth of our chief blogger’s first child, and it seems the least favorite answer, no blogging for ...
Two Rivers E-Marketing
This week we look at the online marketing of a Nashville church. Samples: Traditional Service Web Site: (tworivers.org) Contemporary Service Web Site: (eleven01online.com) E-mail Newsletter:…
Favorite Marketing Book
I was sitting down to write some new polls today and I had a good one about favorite marketing books. But then I realized a poll listing four books wouldn’t ...
Baby Poll
Last week we went with a fun poll, asking how to celebrate the coming birth of my first child. The idea was that the kid would be out by now ...
Church Marketing 101
OK, let’s get it out of the way: Worst. Title. Ever. But we’ll forgive Richard Reising for calling his book Church Marketing 101: Preparing Your Church for Greater Growth, because despite the ...
The Big Moo
So what’s the big fuss with The Big Moo? It’s the marketing strategy of being remarkable. Come up with something so great that it does the work for you. The ...
