Media Outreach

Assessing Your Staff’s Strengths

I’m friends with quite a few people who are on staff at my church, so I get to hear about what’s going on and what the difficult areas of their jobs are and such. One recurring issue that seems to be a problem in our church is the lack of volunteers. It’s hard finding people [...]

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New faithHighway Website: Christian Family Worship Center

The Sunday after going live, Pastor Parries encouraged his congregation to “Text somebody and let them know we’re going live on our own site! Tell them you want to see this today!” Last month I worked with Pastor Parries in Orlando to bring into fruition a “virtual church” through the Christian Family Worship Center’s website.  This [...]

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Top 10 Blog Posts From September 2011

Five Ways to Fail at Targeting Your Audience Communicate Effectively The Intersection: First Baptist Church Blairsville Volunteer Recruiting in Your Church- The Never Ending Job FaithHighway Tools: Prayer and Share Wall How do Colors Effect Your Website? The Intersection: Heavenly Minded Enterprises, Inc. New faithHighway Website: First Baptist Riverton Client Testimony: Pastor Tracy Devolt Five Ways You May Not be Thinking to Advertise

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Top Posts for June

Happy day after the 4th of July! We hope you enjoyed time with your family this weekend! In case you missed them…here are our top blog posts from the month of June are… 1. Greatest Way to Reach the Unchurched Online 2. 6 Tips for Successful Internal Communication with your Staff 3. 10 Things a Bad Church Website Will not do for [...]

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Support for a Year or a Season?

What do the holidays have in store for you?  Family time?  A massive increase in calorie count?  More parties than you can find childcare for? What about the unique opportunity to get beyond your church walls and provide for hurting or helpless people?  Well, let’s be honest, the opportunity is always there.  But Christmas and Thanksgiving [...]

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Group Texting made easy with GroupME

This past weekend I attended my 4th Austin City Limits Music Festival. It’s a music lover’s candy store. Eight stages, 130 bands- all packing into 3 days in a beautiful outdoor venue. This year the weather was perfect- Sunshine and in the mid 80’s the whole weekend! In 2009, it was a mud-fest due to [...]

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Reaching the Spanish Speaking Community

If you live in Texas, or other multicultural border states, it is quite possible you are exposed regularly to marketing and product packaging in Spanish. According to a Directory One article, the U.S. Census states that American Hispanic population is currently at 40 million today and is projected to grow to nearly 50 million within [...]

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Think Outside the Box: Watering Your Ministry

Last week I decided that it was time for me to be responsible with something “living” and try to keep it alive.  I’ve not had very good luck in the past with this. 1.    My fish (R.I.P. Celerina) died because I kept her in a wine glass. I think she died because of dizziness and not [...]

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5 Reasons Not to Engage in Social Media

Social networking is so prominent in our culture that many churches have found just cause to participate. While I believe social media to be a huge opportunity for outreach, there are a few things I’ve noticed when browsing different church accounts.  Here is a list of reasons not to engage in social media. 1.    You’re only [...]

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Have You Considered Highlighting Your Team?

And now for the next installment of “Have You Considered”. Have you considered highlighting your ministry teams? One of the most overlooked people group are usually those working in your church. They are the kids workers, the ushers, the greeters, the youth leaders, the audio/video team. Think about getting a group picture of [...]

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