So you’ve setup a great church website, you keep it updated and well-organized. You’ve created a Facebook page for your church and have a respectable number of “likes.” You might even have a Twitter account for the church and you post things there to your hand-full of followers. You’ve…
I’m over in Ann Arbor, Michigan giving a presentation to Michigan area church planters at the LCMS Michigan District office today about church marketing and I thought I’d share the resources I’m using here for everyone to access. Marketing is about so much more than advertisements and websites. There’s a…
Continuing our spring cleaning at church series, we’re looking today at digital cleaning. Since we’re already giving our physical stuff and style a freshening up, it’s time to look at our digital spaces: websites, social media, and the like. It’s easy to let these places slip our minds when it…
One of the ways I mentioned before about how churches can use technology was to add digital musicians to your worship team. I wanted to go into a little more detail and share how we’re doing that at Journey now. First a few key things to understand: Generally speaking, I’m…
In case you might not have picked up on it, I’m a fan of technology. I’m also very pro technology when it comes to church and leveraging that technology to make things interactive, engaging and user-friendly. So if your church isn’t on the technology train yet or you’re wondering if…
Last night at Merge (Journey’s weeknight Bible study) we covered an unusual topic for a Bible study: Facebook. Specifically, is Facebook a good thing for Christians to be a part of. There’s been lots of stuff posted lately about this very topic, and some from some very high-profile people. The…