I normally try to be positive. Much like many of you as you take the Gospel to your community. That’s positive! Being known FOR something is important for communication acceptance. However, after decades of working with Pastors and communication ministry experts, I understand things that happen in our church that almost certainly cause...
In the popular book (from a couple of decades ago), “Who moved my cheese” the mice got complacent in their maze since they knew where the cheese was located. Then the cheese started to run out. So the smart mice set out to discover a new supply of cheese. Similarly, the Church...
The little screens we carry around in our pockets have changed everything. Because of its proximity, we tend to jump on a mobile web browser far sooner than walking to our desktop computer, sitting down and calling up a website. More and more we’re doing everything digital on our phones! But don’t take...
Social media is a required communication channel for churches. It’s free to set up which is great — and almost your entire church membership is already on it! You only have two things to do: get your congregation to “like” your account on each of your platforms and then keep them engaged...
Things you should consider when tackling your website? Speed to content. People want to discover what they’re looking for, as quickly as possible, and have it delivered exactly how they want it. Simple, eh? Not so fast. To do this, you’ll need to identify who your typical web viewer is, what their...
Social media has changed us. Or maybe it’s just exposed things we’ve kept secretive (but thought of regularly). On social media, we love to use fun acronyms or abbreviations to state the obvious for the masses. If something is humorous, we use LOL (laugh out loud). Or if someone oversteps or meddles,...
Many organizations try to communicate to your audience everyday. A ton of messages! This noise causes people to choose whether to engage with content or simply ignore it because it doesn’t interest them. And all of this is done very quickly. Your church is in the middle of this noise trying to...
Church communication is NOT all about the tools. It’s more about content. It’s like saying that every church needs a Sunday service but not creating engaging components in the service. Your church needs to build content regularly that engages your congregation and attracts your community (when they are considering a local church)....
So you have a website or social media account and you get content for pages and/or posts. But everything seems a bit boring and uninteresting. It’s understandable though. Why? Because most people don’t know how to write for online consumption. Every piece of content needs an improvement process before it gets posted. It...
