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Archive | October, 2009

Facebook Empowers Church to Rally Behind Mourning Family

Facebook Empowers Church to Rally Behind Mourning Family

Growing up, I volunteered with one of my best girlfriends each year to lead the music at my church’s VBS. Why? Because it was one excuse to make a fool of myself “for the kids.”  I remember dressing up in goofy clothes, alongside the pastor, to get the kids excited about coming to church and [...]

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First Impressions: Visitor found the site to be about average, yielding a B

First Impressions: Visitor found the site to be about average, yielding a B

First Impressions is facilitated through Guest Reflections. People are asked to pick a website from a church in their area at random and review it. These sites may or may not be powered by faithHighway. Church Location: Lake Zurich, IL User Profile: Female 30 to 39 years old Caucasian Area Resident 3 to 5 years [...]

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Video Testimony about faithHighway from Andrew Vuksic

“faithHighway has been a phenomenal partner in coming alongside our ministry! Andrew Vuksic shares about faithHighways experience and expertise helping Gospel on the Go become better known across the globe. If you need a company that will walk you through finding your vision like Gospel on the Go, visit us at http://www.faithhighway.com/faithhighway-church-marketing… and meet with [...]

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Best Practices – Staff Pages

Best Practices – Staff Pages

In following with our recent trend of focusing on specific sections within a website, today we’ll explore the section of a site that truly allows a visitor to identify with the church leadership on a personal level – the staff section. While there are many ways in which these sections can be utilized, the following [...]

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12 Reasons to Start Twittering

12 Reasons to Start Twittering

I thought this post from Michael Hyatt was very practical and wanted to share with you guys…plus add a few thoughts of my own on how to make it more relevant for your church. You can read Michael’s  original post HERE. 1.    It will enable you to experience social networking first-hand. One of my pet [...]

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Live from Catalyst!

Live from Catalyst!

We are excited to be amongst the 12,000 pastors and ministry leaders here at Catalyst in Atlanta, GA.  I am blown away because faithHighway has worked alongside nearly 14,000 churches over the past 15 years, and this event helps me see just how many people that equates to. Water balloons, amazing live music and people [...]

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First Impressions: B- for too much home page content

First Impressions: B- for too much home page content

First Impressions is facilitated through Guest Reflections. People are asked to pick a website from a church in their area at random and review it. These sites may or may not be powered by faithHighway. Church Location: Evanston, IL User Profile: Male 25 to 29 years old Caucasian Area Resident 3 to 5 years Attends [...]

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A visitor’s perspective…

A visitor’s perspective…

While visiting a friend last weekend, we visited a church that neither one of us had been to. I haven’t visited a new church in a couple of years, so it was a little bit out of my comfort zone. I went in very skeptical and was analyzing everything – something I do when I’m [...]

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Trendy Tuesday: Building Community with Social Media

Trendy Tuesday: Building Community with Social Media

I’ve been working with my church’s junior high youth group for a little over a month now. Every Wednesday night, we have “Community Groups,” where we focus on building community as the believers did in Acts 2:42-47. “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to [...]

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Church Crunch Link Love

Church Crunch Link Love

Cue the Happy Birthday song.  ChurchCrunch has had an amazing first year in the blogosphere. Boasting around 15,000 unique visitors a month now, one year of blogging has impacted the Church considerably.  John Saddington, chief editor of ChurchCrunch and Human3rror, empowers leaders with tools and expertise in the areas of technology and ministry. Covering topics [...]

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