Archive for the ‘Examples’ Category

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August 28, 2009

Another Word for ‘Church’?

My wife and I traveled to Hawaii a few weeks ago for a co-worker’s wedding. We stayed over an extra day and attended a church service in downtown Honolulu with ...

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August 4, 2009

How Does Your Church Play Nice?

I saw this over the weekend from a church in Eagle Rock, Calif., about eight miles outside of downtown Los Angeles. Christian Assembly has been in Eagle Rock for decades ...

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July 28, 2009

Selling Your Church for Your People

We’ve got this church building, worth a shade over a million dollars, and it’s almost completely paid off. For many churches, this would be time to start dreaming of stuffing the ...

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March 20, 2009

Reacting When the Recession Hits Hardest

NPR has the story of one church’s reaction to the recession. Despite being themselves affected by layoffs and cutbacks, one church decided what really mattered was making a difference in the ...

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March 12, 2009

Lose Your Job, Get Your Offering Back

Generous News has the story of one church who is making a guarantee: If you lose your job, we’ll give your offering back. It’s reminiscent of the Hyundai Assurance, if ...

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February 25, 2009

How Would Your Church Respond to a Drunk Pastor?

Monday Morning Insight has been covering compassion on all cylinders recently. We talked about the church that cut off their electricity for missions, but have you heard about the pastor ...

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February 10, 2009

The Strip Church: Not Your Average Church

The newest project of Fireproof Ministries (the guys behind XXX Church) is The Strip Church. As in the Las Vegas strip (though Vegas and the other kind of strip kind ...

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December 17, 2008

Church Sucks

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Church Sucks Challenge. It’s a site (with a brand strangely similar to our own, but we have had no involvement in the project) where you ...

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December 8, 2008

Christmas With the Churches Advertising Network

How would you tell someone about Christmas in thirty seconds or less? The Churches Advertising Network in England looked to solve exactly that problem. They asked people to make their own ...

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November 17, 2008

Denominational Marketing Campaigns

Across the nation, denominations are finding themselves in financial and ethical trouble. As they look to maintain a centralized model of connecting individuals with local churches, they face problems ranging ...

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October 21, 2008

Paying Couples to Date

Here’s an interesting hook: Come to our church and get free dates with your spouse! That’s what Elevation Church did recently to promote a recent series and encourage husbands to “date ...

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August 27, 2008

Falling for God

All right, all right. I’m sorry for the lame title pun. Westchester Church decided to do something crazy–go skydiving. This church had a message to communicate: We are not boring; ...

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August 18, 2008

Name a Church Contest

Here’s a new and innovative way of going about naming your church — ask your whole country to help. And give them a Wii if they’re right. [Insert name here] church ...

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August 7, 2008

Death to the Church Bulletin

"June 22 was a sad day at Park Community Church, we lost a dearly beloved friend ... our weekly program."

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August 4, 2008

Jesus for President

Superstition Springs Community Church gets the prize here. They were the first link we received of a church to tying a marketing campaign to the presidential campaign, and thus the ...

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