Do It Yourself Creative Brief
Ginger Sinsabaugh MacDonald You show up to Tuesday’s staff meeting with your fully loaded latte and blueberry scone. That’s when the associate pastor drops one of the following bombs: * The pastor’s...
View ArticleThree Steps Forward and Zero Steps Back
You’re familiar with the old adage that says, “three steps forward and two steps back,” but what would happen if you viewed “setbacks” as merely redirects of your efforts? In this address, Kerry...
View ArticleAugust Webcast: Basics of Church Communications
Evan McBroom will join our webcast to talk about the basics of church communications. We will discuss the basic challenges, responsibilities and resources for people in church communications. If you...
View ArticleSeptember Webcast: 7 Principles for Effective Communications
This webcast will include an overview of seven principles for effective church communications that I have collected over the last few years. These principles have been modeled by outstanding churches...
View ArticleIt Starts with a Plan
The first and best step you can make toward changing how your church communicates is to move yourself out of reactive mode and into proactive mode. This starts by making a plan for managing and...
View ArticleSeven Deadly Sins of Church Communication
In this light-hearted but candid session, Evan unpacks seven common barriers his team has identified that stand in the way of effective church communication and the most common recommendations toward...
View ArticleCase Study: Commissioning a Study by the Barna Group
A group of church communicators in Houston wanted to know why self-professed Christians in the city were not attending church. With a countless number of churches from which to choose – including...
View ArticleNovember Webcast
I’m swamped right now, so instead of a live webcast this month, we’re posting two new interviews we did last week with Bruce Herwig from Trinity Church in Redlands, CA. Bruce was in our office working...
View ArticleFour trends for the future of church websites
Original release date: 7/18/13 1. Everything is going mobile. Today 1 in 4 teens is a “mobile-mostly” internet user. Mobile is the fastest growing web platform as more users of all ages access the...
View ArticleYour webmaster needs to be a writer
I’ve been in the web development business for over a decade, and I’ve never seen a site fail due to poor design or bad graphics. I’ve seen sites that were hampered by those, but it’s rarely fatal. What...
View ArticleEffective Communications Principle #1: Guests come first
Principles of Effective Communications For Churches and Non-Profits Principle #1: Guests come first One of the challenges in communications for churches and non-profits is that we do a tremendous...
View ArticleEffective Communications Principle #2: All ministry events are not equal
One of the biggest challenges to effective church communications is the falsely democratic idea that all ministries and all ministries events should be promoted equally. If you give three months of...
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