Communication

  • How to Create Sermon Series Graphics

    How to Create Sermon Series Graphics

    If your church uses a projector on Sunday mornings, you’ve likely had to buy or create sermon series graphics. These slides create a cohesive experience week to week and visually indicate...

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  • Social Media for Churches: Best Practices and Strategies

    Social Media for Churches: Best Practices and Strategies

    I recently started running my church’s social media accounts, and I’ve been having a blast diving into the world of social media strategy for churches! Whether or not you’ve worked in the...

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  • How to Make Church Graphics without a Designer

    How to Make Church Graphics without a Designer

    If you work at a church and are responsible for designing graphics but aren’t a graphic designer, you’ve likely pulled your hair out a time or two. If you don’t have experience in graphic...

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  • How Churches Can Reach More People with Local SEO

    How Churches Can Reach More People with Local SEO

    Churches often look to rank themselves on Google with SEO, so that they can reach more people for the sake of the Gospel. Local SEO is a subset of SEO, or search engine optimization, that...

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  • How to Use Facebook to Share Church Events

    How to Use Facebook to Share Church Events

     

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  • Best Practices for Church Presentation Slides

    Best Practices for Church Presentation Slides

    Church presentation slides are an important part of your worship. While, of course, they’re not as important as truthfully preaching the Word of God, slides help transmit the message...

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  • Church360° June Unite Overview Webinar39:10

    Church360° June Unite Overview Webinar

    Unite is the ministry-focused web builder for small to midsized churches. Today we talked about how to create a basic Communication Strategy for your church, and how to implement it with our church w

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  • How to Rank Your Church on Google with SEO

    How to Rank Your Church on Google with SEO

    Have you ever wondered how Google knows what websites to suggest when you look something up? It’s called SEO—search engine optimization—and it helps users find a website by improving its...

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  • How Mass Texting Can Lead to Better Engagement in Your Church

    How Mass Texting Can Lead to Better Engagement in Your Church

    Every day, most of us receive text messages—from our family members, coworkers, and friends. But have you ever received a text from your church? The concept might seem foreign to some,...

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  • Introducing Church360° Members: The Communication Module39:32

    Introducing Church360° Members: The Communication Module

    Church 360° Members recently launched its Communication Module, a suite of text, email, and voice messaging tools designed to help churches coordinate messages to visitors and congregants. The new too

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  • 7 Steps to Build an Effective Fall Communications Plan at Your Church

    7 Steps to Build an Effective Fall Communications Plan at Your Church

    I love heading into a new season (or month or week or even day) with a plan, knowing what needs to be tackled and when I'm going to do it. When that doesn’t happen (a fair amount of the...

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  • Outfitting and Uploading Your Ministry’s Podcast

    Outfitting and Uploading Your Ministry’s Podcast

    At this point, I hope you have familiarized yourself with podcasting and are interested in starting your own podcast. If you have not read the previous blog post on creating a podcast for...

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  • Creating a Podcast for Your Ministry

    Creating a Podcast for Your Ministry

    The pandemic caused church attendance to hit an unprecedented low for a couple of months last year. My father, who is an LCMS pastor, and I were sitting around one afternoon in March 2020...

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  • Meet Nebraska District Communications Director Kimberly Myers

    Meet Nebraska District Communications Director Kimberly Myers

    Meet Kimberly Myers, Communications Director for the Nebraska District of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod and a communications volunteer in her congregation. With a focus on serving a...

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  • Five Skills Needed to Manage a Great Church Website

    Five Skills Needed to Manage a Great Church Website

    In 1997, back in the dark ages of the internet, I wrote my first website. I wrote it, but I didn’t publish it because, honestly, I didn’t know how. It wasn’t a great website, but I was...

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  • Evaluating Social Media Opportunities for Church Communications

    Evaluating Social Media Opportunities for Church Communications

    It’s so tempting, isn’t it? It’s new, it’s exciting, and it seems to be quite effective at doing the job. Plus, the price is right. Sure the old one was working just fine for you, but...

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  • Personalizing Communications through Content Mapping

    Personalizing Communications through Content Mapping

    “What’s your favorite color?” As adults, we typically do not ask each other this, but for kids, it is an especially important question. My four-year-old daughter has a knack for both...

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  • Using Journey Maps to Identify Next Step Communications

    Using Journey Maps to Identify Next Step Communications

    Admit it; you’ve done this before too. I’m sure I’m not the only one. I’m at a restaurant having a meal with my family. The server brings the food out, distributes the dishes to each...

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  • The Proper Use of Personas and Lists in Church Communications

    The Proper Use of Personas and Lists in Church Communications

    This past Sunday, my church, along with many other congregations, observed Good Shepherd Sunday. While not an official holiday in the Church Year, it has been historically called that...

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  • Ministry Goals: Defining Your Purpose [Webinar Recording]1:16:53

    Ministry Goals: Defining Your Purpose [Webinar Recording]

    Or are you just pursuing communication tactics? In other words, do you feel like you are communicating without a singular purpose? Church communicators are given are hard task. They are asked to shar

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