Talking to Visitors

Hey Fletch—We have a lot of people who visit our church but they don’t come back. We send out letters and emails to newcomers. Apparently these are not working. Any thoughts?

Fletch—I stumbled on an interesting […]

By |2023-11-30T10:04:53-06:00November 30th, 2023|Communication|

No Response to Emails

February 9, 2018

Hey Fletch … Some of our junior staff are terrible at responding to emails. They say, “our generation likes texts.” One staff member took a month to get me his annual review.

DRF—Well, you […]

By |2021-09-29T13:53:06-05:00February 9th, 2018|Communication|

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 Church […]

By |2016-10-12T10:59:42-05:00June 6th, 2015|Communication|

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 […]

By |2016-10-12T10:59:48-05:00September 26th, 2014|Communication|

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 Church […]

By |2021-09-29T13:44:54-05:00September 20th, 2014|Communication|

Church Publicity Campaigns

Summers are pretty busy for XPs. Beyond the normal budget preparation that keeps me busy, we also launched a major publicity venture for our 9/11 sermon series. This was a three-week series talking about the implications […]

By |2015-08-26T10:17:00-05:00December 18th, 2012|Communication|

XPastor Re-Branded

All websites need an occasional dusting off … or even rebranded and restyled. How is your church’s website? Does it look like it did ten years ago?  Perhaps it’s time to improve your online image. A […]

By |2020-08-04T14:15:54-05:00December 14th, 2012|Communication|

Communications System

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 Communications System of Hope Community Church in Raleigh, […]

By |2021-09-29T13:34:28-05:00December 14th, 2012|Communication|

Blogging and Facebook Policy

These days it seems everyone is pushing you towards blogging, Facebook and Twitter. Whether for professional or personal reasons, it can be wise to take advantage of these emerging social networking opportunities. However, there can […]

By |2021-09-29T13:30:20-05:00December 5th, 2012|Communication|