Church service slides are everywhere (whether done with PowerPoint, Keynote, ProPresenter, or other design software). Most churches today have a digital means of projecting announcements, worship song lyrics, sermon points, or videos so the congregation can participate in the worship service, and understand greater meaning. But do church service slides work every time?...
Congratulations! Choosing to create your church website on Wordpress means you’re using the very popular church content management system (CMS) that’s open source, free (non-proprietary), and highly adaptable. We highly recommend it for creating and maintaining your church website! But before you celebrate too much, remember a church website is never done. Your...
Many believe a communicator is someone who can craft a story, engage an audience, and/or supply content with solutions to an audience with concerns. Well, they may do all of those things and more. But I believe a real-effective church communicator knows what NOT to say! Almost everyone knows how to be wordy and...
Short of naming your church, finding the right web address is your most difficult task. Why? Because most people will end up discovering you or ministry information on your website. Yes, your website content needs to be very good in order for Google to direct searches to you. We deal with issues like...
There are many communication channels for your church. You can talk from the stage, in your bulletin, through text or email messaging, on one or all social media channels, and your church websites. What matters most? That you communicate where most in your congregation have access to — and where your community can...
Imagine establishing a restaurant. You’re aware that most in your community like hamburgers. But you decide to offer only hot dogs instead. Think they’ll understand? It’s difficult to keep people happy if you don’t provide what they’re looking for. Your congregation and community consumes communication content a certain way (a channel). Over time...
We live in an online world. According to research by USC Annenberg, average internet consumption has jumped from 9.4 hours (2000) to 23.6 hours currently. Most of this increase is because of our insatiable urge to not miss out. Plus the fact we have mobile devices constantly near us. According to the...
In school test questions check the student’s knowledge. An instructor guides the questions and skillfully contracts them. Once we graduate, and get into the working world, we often don’t have someone who’s asking the right questions, so we end up doing what we think is correct. And without professional guidance, we end...
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...
