Often when people "do the announcements" at church they just chat through a list of various items. This disregards the fact that our culture is dominated by visual learners and that people respond to the use of imagery in communications. In fact, our broader culture is training our people to...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Bobby Williams is the pastor of Ridge Community Church in Oak Ridge, TN. In this episode Bobby gives us insight into a new way of following up with First Time Guests at his church. He talks us through how he's strategically using email to make...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Carey Nieuwhof has led more change in his church in the last 10 years than most pastors will lead in 10 lifetimes! Carey is a "must listen to" leader for church leaders wanting to understand how to lead your church through change. This episode is packed...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Corrin Bauer is the social media guru behind everything at Mars Hill Church. Today's episode is packed full of practical insights on leveraging social media channels for ministry outcomes. Corrin manages social media channels that currently reach over 500,000 people daily and in this interview...

When "announcements" are done well they help move the community to be more engaged in the vision your church. When they are done poorly they drag on the service and make everyone wish they would just stop! The difference between these two extremes is often really simple things. Here are...

Visual content is critical for driving engagement on your church's social media channels. The goal of posting on social networks is to get people commenting, liking and sharing ... and people love visual content! In fact, Facebook's EdgeRank system that decides what content ends up being viewed by people favors...

Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests. - Jim Collins Organizational "silos" is the term given to departments or ministries within your church that have a tendency to...

You spend a lot of energy attempting to get people to attend your church. You craft great experiences with fantastic music and engaging teaching. You advertise your church through a number of ways so people in your community know you exist. You've trained your volunteer teams to do a great...

For years as a church leader I would proudly declare that "every weekend at our church is 'special' ... we don't do 'special weekends' because new guests arrive every weekend at our church!'" It sounded so good when I said it! It came from a good spot ... wanting to...

Google's mission is to organize all of information in the world. They are known for being a search engine and increasingly for their incredible email service (Gmail) but they have a whole collection of other services that church leaders should be aware of. There are hundreds of online services that...