Sometimes people just don’t know where to start with digital or online ministry. The mistake I see most often is that they post live streams of their service on YouTube and start posting announcements on Facebook… maybe even some Christian education...
When I first started off in ministry, our church had full-time programmers. As a rapidly growing church, we were able to devote resources to solving ministry problems via custom developed ChMS systems. Most churches face unique problems that aren’t resolved with...
The website is probably going to be the first thing people check out when considering visiting your church. That means it’s a vital entry point for your ministry and you need to focus on how you communicate with people who visit your site. In fact, you should...
Having been a pastor for over 20 years, few things disappoint me more than stories about church members that drop out without anybody noticing. Even more so, when people stop attending their small group/life group/cell group/community group, but it takes six months...
Imagine a database that has hundreds or even thousands of people with their name, age, address, phone number, email address, and countless other details about them. Now imagine there is also an email account that people have sent their deepest and darkest struggles:...
Now that Gen-Z or “Zoomers” have come of age, there has been some talk about their habits and how the church needs to adapt to reach them. I was particularly intrigued by an article put out on the Carey Nieuwhof blog titled 7 Habits of Gen Z Your Church...
Okay, so it happens to us all: we get away from seminary and our ability to work with original languages deteriorates… rapidly! 🤣 Usually that doesn’t mean the end of the world per se as we tend to still be able to interact with it on some level, but it...
Communicating with church members takes a bit of art and science. Most churches have gotten great at giving a sermon, but what about those other forms of communication? The messages most likely to be read is actually SMS 📱… with some statistics as high as...
So keeping track of projects and tasks can get a bit challenging in a church. I’ve seen… 🟨 post-it notes✉️ emails😬 spreadsheets📒 notepads … all kinds of things people are using to try and get stuff done. The problem with those methods is lack of...
Back around 2014 I read a book that changed a lot of my perspectives on church ministry. The book is called The Social Church: A Theology of Digital Communication by Justin Wise. Now, let me start by saying that the book isn’t perfect, after all, what book is?...
