5 Ways to Increase Church Giving
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...
How to Grow Your Church and Connect Your People with Your Digital Ministry 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...
5 Essentials for Your Church Website’s Staff Directory
With the easy of information online, it seems that the days of paper staff directories are long gone. Rather than having the staff’s photos and titles on the opening pages of the church directory, you can easily have a staff page available, complete with a warm photo,...
Is Your Church Website Serving You, or are You Serving Your Church Website?
Do you find yourself spending a majority of your time having to communicate with your church body? The answer should be a resounding YES, because the good news is to be communicated to the people of God, for the Kingdom of God. However, if you find yourself spending...
6 Ways Your Church Website Can Connect Your Congregation
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...
4 Ways a Smartphone App can Benefit Your Church
Everyone remembers Apple’s initial campaign for the iPhone. Their brilliant marketing strategy truly changed the game of advertising. While others were going for more graphics, more animations, and more music; Apple went a more simplistic route, going for elegant yet...
How to Add a Free Spiritual Gifts Test to Your Church Website
Your church website is a tool to equip your congregation for the work of ministry. Learn how to add value to your church website with a spiritual gifts test. A spiritual gifts test can help your congregation discover their gifts and connect them to service...
Confusion vs. Clarity: How to Accurately Present Your Church Online
The purpose of your digital ministry is to accurately present your church online. To be accurate in every sense of the word, you must bear in mind the church’s mission, culture, and size. Communicate these things in the church website and other aspects of your digital...
The Benefits of Using Post-Launch Training Strategies for your Digital Ministry
Your digital ministry is like landscaping a yard. It looks great when you first plant everything in its respective place. But if you don’t maintain it, the whole project could die. It’s not as daunting as it sounds—a little goes a long way. Once you’ve built your...
How Your Church Website Can Save Time and Free Up Your Staff
Do you regularly yourself or your staff overwhelmed with the weekly task of printing a church bulletin? Here’s good news: your church website can actually replace that task for you. In fact, it could potentially replace many of the extra tasks that add up and take...
6 Complaints Visitors Have About Your Church Website
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...
Website or Church Management System: Which is right for our church?
The goal of any church communication strategy must be to reach your members and your community with the timely, relevant information that they need to equip them to fulfill the Great Commandment and the Great Commission. There are several tools out there that help...