Update your Church Website for Your Christmas Visitors

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Many people check out a church's website or Facebook page prior to visiting your church at Christmas.If you are having special events at Christmas to attract new church visitors, ask yourself these questions while at your church website:What time is your Christmas Eve Service? What should … [Read more...]

Reduce Friction on Your Church Website

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Can potential first time church visitors find out the information they need on your church website landing page?What do you think are some of the most common questions of your website visitor?Here is what I think (though I don't have data to prove it):Where is the church? What does … [Read more...]

Church Websites Help Visitors find your Church

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This Easter, some people might want to visit your church.This Holy Week, some out of town guests may want to visit your special services for holy week.You don't know who they are.They don't know where they want to go.God has given these first time church visitors spiritual thirst … [Read more...]

Friday Finds December 25 2009

Awesome Book ListsBooks for beginning missionaries Jeff Gilbertson adds his: Top 10 Reading List EvangelismCoach: Top Recommended Personal Evangelism Books for 2009Other cool linksNorth American Mission Board posts conversational tips to keep a conversation moving. Resisting … [Read more...]

Bridge Building through Caring for your Community

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I'm often asked How does a church build a bridge to the local community? Here is a great example of a church serving it's community and using the web 2.0 technology to do so.12 Stone Church Developed a website calledmyCorkBoard.orgI heard about it in a podcast this past fall where the … [Read more...]

Friday Link Roundup October 3

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Personal Evangelism The Pugnacious Irishman looks at the objection: "I’ll start sharing my faith as soon as I learn how to defend it and answer questions."  Read: Are you ready enough?People get a passion for evangelism by doing it.  We study, study, study, thinking we'll eventually get … [Read more...]

Expert Interview — Simple Church Websites that Work

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Based on what my newsletter subscribers tell me, many of you don't like the look or feel of your church website.They are embarrassing. They are clumsy. They are hard to keep up to date. It was designed 10 years ago in HTML and uses expensive software.What if you could fix thatfor … [Read more...]

A Broken Church Website

I recently visited a church website and immediately thought they were playing hard to get.Does your website prevent visitors from even making it to you church?Does your website home page commit any of these errors?1.  Where do you meet?I wanted to know where the church was.  There … [Read more...]

Church Websites can be Embarassing

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Last week, I spoke with a small suburban church pastor who apologetically murmured how his church website embarrassed him. "I'm sorry you had to see that." He went on to explain how it was setup 10 years ago by a church member who has since moved on and how impossible it is to maintain with all … [Read more...]

7 Ways to Prepare Your Church for Mothers Day

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1. Bathroom sniff test. Yes, I’m serious.Ever been blown over by that uniquely powerful smell?You know what I mean.  What’s the first room you clean in your own home whencompany is coming?I rest my case. Is your church bathroom up to “company standards?”Put some nice … [Read more...]