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Archive for the ‘Demographics/Research’ Category
Best Practices for Internet Ministry: Part 1
For the past year I have been conducting a research project on what makes a successful Internet ministry (see the specifics here). The goal of the research is to ...
Surveying Church
Have you ever done a church survey? We talked about them long ago, but if you still haven’t jumped on the bandwagon, I wanted to give another little plug. It’s ...
No Time Like the Present
Church marketing. It’s a term that sends chills down the spines of some and puts warm fuzzies in the heart of this blog. Love it or hate it, it’s something ...
Lessons In Not Sucking: Know Your Audience
This is part six in a series on Lessons In Not Sucking. Today we discuss the idea of knowing your audience. It’s basic Communication 101, and I’m embarrassed to admit ...
Trust vs. Statistics
The last chapter of 2 Samuel reads somewhat like a page out of the book of Revelation. It’s got everything a good chapter in Revelation has: judgment, death and an ...
Yahoo! Real Estate and The Church
Yahoo! Real Estate’s new tool, Neighborhood Profile, provides an interesting tool for an often overlooked necessity in the church–cross-cultural ministry. The tool lists factors such as average income, average family ...
Megachurches are Desegregating Sunday Mornings
You can deride megachurches all you want, but new research shows that they’re more racially diverse, finally beginning to overturn the assertion that Sunday morning is the most segregated hour ...
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 ...
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 ...
Do It Yourself Market Research for Churches
Sometimes the best things in life don’t cost any money. This is a fact that is very easily overlooked in the realm of church marketing. From fliers and mailers to ...
Church Attrition
Earlier this year we did a series on church growth which hinted (or at least the comments did) at an idea Bob Franquiz of Calvary Fellowship in Florida elaborates on: ...
Fastest Growing U.S. Churches in 2006
We know how much you love lists ranking churches, so how about the top 100 Fastest Growing U.S. Churches in 2006? Outreach magazine offers the list, compiled from a Church ...
Man Law for Churches
Bob Franquiz of Calvary Fellowship in Florida is proposing Man Law for Christians, including the inaugural law that men shouldn’t have to hold hands with other men while praying. It’s ...
Greg Boyd, Megachurch Anomaly
Woodland Hills Church in Maplewood, Minn. and its pastor, Greg Boyd, are getting loads of attention from the New York Times article, “Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock” (registration ...
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 ...
