Media Outreach

Promote Your Christmas Event for Free

Is your church having a Christmas program of any sort? My church just put on a family event for our community called “A Wonderful Life.”  It was open to the entire community and it was free! There was live music and lots of activities like:  gingerbread house decorating, cooking decorating, ornament making and family photos. [...]

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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 [...]

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Facebook Advertising 101

Have you ever considered utilizing Facebook as more than just a place to connect and build relationships with current attendees and recent visitors? Facebook has created an easy way to target your ideal church demographics, while pacing the advertising at your budget. Choose who you will advertise to based on age, gender, city, state, country, [...]

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Creating Outreach Opportunities in 2011

Did you know that nearly 3 of 4 conversions happen in the context of family and friends?  Considering such a significant statistic, we know that in the end, most outreach will be done through close relationships, not through the church “corporately”. So the question becomes, how can we equip our church members with the tools [...]

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Facebook Advertising 101

Learn how you can utilize Facebook for not only social networking connections, but advertising as well.

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Best Practices- The rest of the year

Resurrection Sunday was great at my church. I haven’t laughed so much at church in a very long time. Amongst the gems from Pastor Tony were “Jesus is like the death star. When you get close, he pulls you in with his tractor beam”, “Mo’ money, that’s right, mo’ problems”, and “if you hate your [...]

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Q&A with Hopewell Baptist Church about their Facebook Page

In one of my previous blog posts on Facebook Groups vs. Pages, I compared the differences between a group and page. One of our clients, Lori Simpson from Hopewell Baptist Church in Monroe, North Carolina, sent me her church’s Facebook page.  This church is using their page for reaching out and keeping members updated on [...]

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Have You Considered – Community Outreach

People in your church enjoy participating in community outreach. Sometimes, though, finding unusual things to do can be a challenge. Have you considered partnering with an ongoing event? For example, at my son’s school, they do a mock DWI event every year on campus to highlight what happens when kids drive drunk, wreck, and experience [...]

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Hosting Outreach Events vs. Participating in Community Events

Something has been on my mind a lot lately. It is the notion of a church’s involvement in the community. I think there is an unfortunate mindset that the church’s involvement in the community should be on the church’s terms.  I know I’ve totally been there.  Don’t get me wrong – events that the church [...]

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85 Percent of people are finding their church based on the website

According to “Your Church Magazine” Currently, 80 to 85 percent of people are finding their church based on websites If you read further in this article you will also find that 85 percent of church websites are poorly designed, 10 percent are merely adequate, and only five percent can be considered really good So what [...]

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