It's important to know how to do a church welcome during a Sunday service. Welcoming visitors properly is the first step to creating longtime new church members. Church growth starts by making people welcome! Based on the many churches I’ve visited as a "mystery visitor", here are 5 tips for ensuring first-time guests...
A church communication strategy checklist could be very long for most churches! In fact, trying to get communication correct (for any organization) is a customized, difficult task. Why? Because every church’s audience is quite different, with different needs. Combine that with the multiple ministries you can offer. It’s difficult to get all...
It’s a great time to learn church communication lessons in order to get your congregation and community listening again. For years, the church has been talking in a way so many ignore our important message. No longer does the church have to rely on people visiting a building, getting a church bulletin, or...
Church branding components are the essential ingredients to helping a church be known for something relevant and needed. In order to impact a community and connect them to the gospel. Being known for the right things are critical to having someone consider attending your church! These church branding components help shape the perception...
If you want to reach people not listening, it feels like an overwhelming, impossible task! There are a few reasons people don’t listen: the world is noisy so, as a defense mechanism, they can’t listen to everything. Instead they pick and choose what they want. they also tune out messaging that’s beyond...
“The community isn’t listening to my church” is a difficult statement many Pastors exclaim. Is it that the church message is wrong? Is it that people don’t want spiritual truth? Or are there other reasons the community isn’t listening? It’s important to make sure your gospel message isn’t ignored. Often the church can...
A commodity is a product that’s indistinguishable from the many others available. In the commercial world, commodities are chosen based on price rather than quality. It’s not what a church should be known for: “just another church”. Is your church viewed as a commodity? Are you perceived like other churches in the area?...
Your church website is critical for your digital hub communication strategy. If your church website sucks, your communication strategy probably struggles too. Want to improve? This completes our 11 clues. Read the first 5 clues here. Your church management system (CMS) is restrictive. The website infrastructure system (discussed in #5) is your CMS....
The other day I drove up to the little drive-thru speaker, paused while trying to make my ordering decision, and a garbled voice asked to take my order. I think. I politely said, “I’m sorry, I’m not quite ready yet”. There was another incoherent reply. After a few seconds, I questioned aloud,...
