Archive for September, 2009
Be Helpful
Your church marketing has to be helpful. What do I mean by that? Make sure that every marketing tool you create points to your church web site so people can get all the information they need and want about your church and any related event or invitation you are extending. Your church web site is [...]
Outstanding
Do you know a church that is “outstanding”? Outstanding is a term we use to describe something that impresses us. Something that goes above an beyond our expectations. Is there a church that you would say is outstanding? If yes, what is it about that ministry that makes them outstanding? Usually, it is not that [...]
Church Leaders Need A Marketing Education
Most seminaries do not offer courses in marketing. The focus of pastoral education is on preaching, teaching, doctrine, and theology – and it must be. However, most seminaries do not offer adequate training and equipping of the every day operational duties of a church organization. Most churches in North America are single pastor congregations. These [...]
Church Leaders: Stop non
For you who are my regular readers…I have been swamped to the gills the past few days and my creative writing has been suffering as a result. However, I did come across a great blog post today from Seth Godin. It is filled with enough passion and serious stuff to consider that I really want [...]
A Tribute To Youth Ministers
What more can be said? Youth miniSTARz…
The Church Planter’s Top Two Marketing Tools
A church “plant” is Christianese for a start-up church. A church starting from scratch either independently, supported by a partnering or “mother” church, or one that is “planted” or launched by a denomination. Every year hundreds of new churches are planted across North America. Regardless of the size of the launch team, most church plants [...]
Church Marketing Budgets
When it comes to marketing, most churches I know do not budget any money for this purpose in their yearly budgets. This thinking has to change at the leadership level. Until churches begin to allocate some funds – and it doesn’t have to be an exorbanent amount, churches will always be behind in integrating and [...]
