When we started our church communication’s company 15 years ago, very few churches had full-time communication directors. We talked mainly to Pastors, Worship Leaders, Secretaries and Volunteers. Now, many churches have a full-time dedicated person who’s committed to the communications of their local church. Finally! It’s not just the large churches either; we...
I can still remember my Mother telling me to “turn off the TV and read a book”. I think she truly believed that my brain was turning to mush. And that the TV literally sucked brain cells that only a book could replenish. During a recent conference I blurted out “no one’s reading...
Have you ever done something and wondered why you seem to be wasting your time? Perhaps talking to your teenage kids or telling a mechanic what seems to be the problem with your car. Or maybe it's when you preach a passionate sermon about stewardship. Are you just wasting time? No one wants...
I'm warring with email. Although statistically SPAM is down quite a bit over just 3 years ago, I seem to get a lot of it. And when I get through deleting all the junk mail, I'm often cranky and don't seem to enjoy getting "real" emails. Sometimes emails get "lost" in the...
Everyone is wordy. And I am too. And when someone is given a lot of words (especially in paragraph form); most people won't read them anymore. So each time I type a Facebook post, web copy, blog or a simple email, I write what comes to mind. It's always too long and has too...
