When you arrive at our church on Sunday's you are greeted by some fantastic members of our team who offer you a name tag. You can opt out of this experience ... but our hope is that the majority of our people at our services will decide to get a...

Throughout the Christian calendar there are days that it seems like the community is more likely to accept an invitation to come to church. For our church it's Christmas and Easter ... but what about those "other" holy days? You know ... the one's that our culture (and greeting card...

Church leaders are increasingly relying on technology to deliver their weekend service experiences. Audio, video and lighting systems are now a standard part of many Sunday mornings in churches across the country. Most pastors aren't naturally technically inclined but we heavily rely ... that's a recipe for anxiety! How can a pastor interact with...

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Ministry leaders think if they just get their event or program "promoted from the stage" people will flood into it. Church communications people are peppered with requests all the time for people wanting to get "their deal" in the announcements. The urgency from those leaders leans towards desperate. However, the more...

As communications continues to shift towards more digital and online we've found an increasing value in producing regular invite promotional cards for our people. We used to only do this for "big days" or "special series" but we've shifted to do this for every series. Over this last year we've...

Have you ever noticed that the status updates used by a lot churches in Facebook or on Twitter feel less like an engaging conversation and more like a greasy used car salesman. "New series coming up this weekend!" "Join a Life Group this Spring!" "The Most Amazing Thing is Happening...

Sending out a weekly email to your team is an effective way to make sure that your people are focused on the same thing going into the weekend. A good weekly email is part logistics reminder part talking points and part motivational propaganda. If you don't currently send out weekly emails...

"By age 20, children will have spent 20,000 hours online — the same amount of time a professional piano player would have spent practicing…" - Dr. Urs Gasser (co-author of Born Digital) Students graduating from high school this year are at the leading edge of the digital native generation. Information technology...

Today's Guest Blogger is my friend Roscoe Lilly. Roscoe is the lead pastor at NorthStar Church in Albany, NY.  I love talking with leaders reaching people in tough communities and as you will read in this post Albany has been acknowledges as possibly the toughest place in the country to reach people...