I found a really interesting article today on www.churchmarketingsucks.com about Gateway Community Church in South Riding Va. Apparently they decided one day to cancel church service to volunteer at 61 area homes in their community. You can read about it at Pete’s blog who is a member at the church. I love this idea. Think [...]
Well, I was just looking at Bart’s blog The Older Brother and saw a post about knowing how rich we are. Now if we all get honest, there have been times when we just do not think what we have is good enough. Our salaries are not good enough, our cars are not good enough, [...]
Are you a Pastor? Ministry Worker? Ecstatic Techno Church Geek? and looking to start a blog? If so you may want to check out this blog at Church Communications Pro. They have started a post called "Blogging 101 for Pastors (or Pasture’s if you have seen the skitguys video). This is a great [...]
I just ran across this promotion twice today. Get Craig Groeschel’s book "Confessions of a Pastor" for free from Mpbooks.com I heard about this through a magazine first but then saw it again on www.churchvideoideas.com (which by the way is a great church "techie" blog). One last note, they are only giving the book away to [...]
So, I went to a conference yesterday afternoon where I heard Ron Luce of Teenmania speak. He is traveling the U.S. telling church leaders about the state of our youth generation. Now, we all could probably agree that media has somewhat of an effect on our kids (Everyone could agree to this, if not go [...]
Well, this week I wanted to let you know about a really creative idea I have heard about, a few times, to reach out to visitors. I have a friend, who is one of our customers, that has organized a team of volunteers that every night after service drive out to all the visitors house’s and they [...]
Another work week. People to see, calls to make, errands to run, and to-do lists to complete. My hectic life tends to keep me focused on the urgent and not on the important things in life. Sometimes things seem to get so frantic that I completely forget about who and where I am.
God wanted the [...]
I don’t know about you but I am sensitive to the old phrase, "Just like the good old days." I use it and I know you do too. I am always thinking about some time in the past that I think was better than today.
I know you understand…
Back in grade school on the playground. [...]
We have been doing a lot of thinking around the office about what church software should look like. Now I don’t mean just graphics and pretty buttons, I’m talking about vision… what should the vision of church software look like. It’s incredible how vision can change everything… completely. We are in a process of reimagining [...]
If you haven’t heard of Serendipity House it is an excellent resource for Sunday School, small group, or general meetings. I found out about Serendipity House from a Youth Specialties show I was working at. They had a free lesson from their Flood series that included some of the best DVD video work I have seen [...]
