Communications
Churches are all about effective communication with their staff and congregation … in print, web and verbally … in regular times and emergencies.
Church Website Searching: Google vs. AI
Every church has a website. A major question is how you and others can find content on it. Fletch enjoys talking with Jason Hamrock. He brings tremendous experience in church communication, having been on [...]
Measuring Discipleship in a Growing Church
Lessons from North Coast Church One of the most persistent church leadership questions is: “How are we actually measuring discipleship?” In this webinar, Blue Van Dyke of StudioC walks through North Coast Church’s recent [...]
Stealing Genius
How to Get Game-Changing Building Ideas from Your Staff What if the best ideas for improving your church spaces were already in the room—hiding in the minds of your staff and volunteers? In this [...]
10 Secrets to a Successful Social Media Presence
In today's digital age, social media has become an invaluable tool for churches to connect with their congregation, engage with the wider community and spread their message of faith. With millions of people actively [...]
Good Stewardship of Marketing Budgets
Let's dive into how to build an effective marketing budget. How do you advertise in various seasons of ministry? Lots of churches are walking into the budget season so this is a [...]
Three Areas where AI will Benefit Your Church Teams
AI can feel like the Wild West, where it's constantly advancing and changing. What can you do to use it to help your teams? Where do you turn for advice? How can [...]
A Top-of-Funnel Conversation About Leveraging Google, Content, and AI
If you're a church that embraces the mission Jesus sent us on to "go and make all disciples,” then you are likely laser-focused in your approach and mindset around growth. But many [...]
Beyond Sunday: Engaging Your Community Monday through Saturday
Gone are the days of thinking attendance leads to engagement. In a digital-first era, churches are re-thinking how to approach community engagement and may not have the right people, technology, and processes [...]
The Collective Might Platform
How do you maximize the strength of your church? All of our churches have wonderful strengths, but they are not always fully utilized or appreciated. Gloo connects the faith ecosystem and enables [...]
Websites that Provide Resources & Create Leads
Your church website is important to your ministry—of course, we all know that! It is one of the key ways to get information out to members and visitors. In this sense, it [...]
How Marketing Strategies Play a Role in Creating Disciples: Using the Member Lifecycle
Articulating your Church’s Member Lifecycle or member engagement strategy will help you know your people, define the next steps for growing their faith and result in growing your church. Let technology help [...]
Leadership Live: Connecting to the Congregation
Leadership Live is a concept that Village Bible Church developed to connect with its congregation. Village Bible is a church of 1,500 people, spread across 5 campuses. They were looking for ways to connect with [...]
Great Pastoral Communication by Video
Churches should always over-communicate with the congregation. This is especially so during a crisis, such as the pandemic. Here is a superb video from Lighthouse Community Church. It is a message from their elders to [...]
Video Calls – They’re Pandemic!
The coronavirus (Covid-19) has many staff working from home, and there are a number of things worth considering as you manage the ‘brand’ of your church in a distributed work environment. Video Call Solution [...]
7 Essentials for Your Church Website
At Vanderbloemen, we spend a lot of time on church websites. Probably more time than anyone you know. In our time, we’ve seen a lot of good websites...and some that, well, leave a lot [...]
The Three Big Mistakes Most Churches Make on Their Websites
In my day job, I have the opportunity to look at a lot of church websites. The thing is, I keep seeing the same three mistakes made on the majority of the sites I visit. [...]
Less Clutter. Less Noise
I came across Kem Meyer a few years ago when I spent the day in my office listening to The Nines Webinar Conference. I was so intrigued and delighted by her approach and expertise [...]
Communications Strategy
The XPastor Online Course on Operations 102—Communications encourages students to develop a communications strategy for their church. Below is the Communications Strategy of one of our students, the Executive Pastor for Seven Mile Road [...]
Why Podcasts are Critical to Your Church
There’s been a shift in the world. Is your church adapting? The shift is in how people use media and their expectation of what our churches offer. It all started when people could easily record [...]
How Do You Communicate with Your Church?
Good communication is key to any relationship. As church leaders, you understand this better than most. It’s no easy task making sure your congregation is getting the information they need to be prepared for upcoming [...]
Going Paperless
Consider if your church or business had 29,151,900 pages of documents. For ease of discussion, let’s round that down to a 29 million. According to some folks in New Zealand who had plenty of time [...]
Facebook and Blogging Policy
XPastor tries to help churches by providing some of the essentials for running a church---items like job descriptions, employment applications, review forms and policies. Below is the Facebook and Blogging Policy of Northshore Christian [...]
Honest Virtual Communication
As I was looking closely at the websites of six local churches, one question I considered was this: “What does this website convey about the culture of the church?” That's a great question. Websites are [...]
Seven Reasons Why You’re Not Getting a Stage Announcement
One of the most challenging things in service planning for pastors and communication leaders can be managing stage announcements. Without a system and strategy in place, you can quickly find yourself stuck in a rhythm [...]