by Rob Laughter | Content, Strategy
This post is sponsored by PastorBlogs.com, an up-and-coming resource to help pastors and ministry leaders share their message with their churches and communities. 1. Maintaining a blog helps pastors become better communicators. Every pastor should be actively...
by Rob Laughter | Strategy
“America has undoubtedly become a smartphone nation,” says Nielsen in The U.S. Digital Consumer Report. They have estimated that over 65% of Americans own a smartphone, which then surpasses the percentage of Americans with gaming consoles (46%), and even digital cable...
by Rob Laughter | Strategy
I can remember when I took my first paid church position as an intern worship leader. We had gone over all the steps of the order of service. I had gone over every step in my head. First, we would begin with a welcome and an upbeat song, followed by more music and a...
by Rob Laughter | Strategy
Serving at a small town church in western North Carolina, you would expect to find our church website to be dated, flat, and all around unwelcoming, or so we heard from the new guests that had just visited our church for the first time. Taken aback, we continued to...
by Rob Laughter | Strategy
Coming from the original Greek, church or ἐκκλησία, means an assembly, congregation, or the whole body of Christian believers. All of these definitions include aspects of community and connectedness. What if we told you that you could fulfill these definitions of what...
by Rob Laughter | Strategy
A church website can go a long way. Consider your website as the first point of contact between your guests and the church. Just like person-to-person contact, first impressions are important. If done wrong, it can be a disaster. The good news is that many complaints...