Archive for Ministry
How Important is Your Church Website Content?
Very. Very important! Most organizations drop the ball when it comes to creating compelling and focussed content on their websites. Churches struggle in this area too – maybe even more so because this task is often given to a volunteer. In this week’s Ministry Story church marketing and communications podcast, I share a couplke key [...]
Branding a Church
For many church leaders, understanding church branding can be confusing. In this week’s Ministry Story Podcast, I talked with Mark MacDonald of PinPoint Creative in North Carolina. If you struggle to get your mind around what branding is and why assessing the brand of your church is so important, I invite you to listen in to our conversation. [...]
The State of Podcasting for Churches
Is podcasting dead? When it first became a fad five years or so ago, everyone was jumping on the podcasting bandwagon. Today, there are certainly fewer being created but is the medium dead? Needless to say, I am quite interested in podcasting and if you are curious about my take on the state of podcasting, I would appreciate [...]
Church Communication Culture
The culture between Canada and the Unites States is different. There are many similarities, but it is different. The culture in small towns (in Canada or the US) is different from the culture in cities. The culture from state-to-state and province-to-province is different as well. Churches have to take into account the culture they are communicating to and [...]
Social Media For Ministry
Infographics are all the rage these days. An infographic is a graphical representation of a process, knowledge, or of statistics (data). They are indeed helpful in making complex things simple (sometimes). In keeping with the theme yesterday of social networks, I came across a graphic today (a portion on the left) that illustrates the average [...]
Top 5 Reasons for Using WordPress for Your Church Website
Today, I published episode #6 of the MinistryStory church marketing and communications podcast. Today’s episode focuses on answering a question I have been getting a lot over the past year. Why do you use WordPress as the foundation or platform for the church websites you develop? I have answered that fully in the podcast. As [...]
18 Years Ago Today
My Story: Valley of Despair It was a day exactly like today. The weather forecasters were scheduling a a huge snowstorm to strike our region starting around noon. It was Thursday, January 21, 1993. I was out of town on the tail-end of a business trip and I decided to drive home early that morning so I [...]
