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  • How Does Church Management Software Help Small Churches?

    How Does Church Management Software Help Small Churches?

    Does church management software really help small churches? In short, the answer is yes, of course! However, the answer is much more complex than that. Church management software isn’t...

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  • What Is Church Management Software?

    What Is Church Management Software?

    One of the biggest challenges churches often face is organizing their members’ information, communications, and giving. While there are many free solutions out there, utilizing a church...

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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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  • 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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  • Bullet Journaling: An Analog System to Aid Digital Creativity

    Bullet Journaling: An Analog System to Aid Digital Creativity

    Throw out the phrase “bullet journal” in conversation, and you’ll likely get a variety of responses: everything from “Oh, I’m not ‘arsty’ enough for that,” to “This is the single greatest...

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  • How to Livestream at Your Church for the First Time

    How to Livestream at Your Church for the First Time

    The COVID-19 has quickly changed almost every aspect of our lives, including our worship lives. Many churches are choosing not to hold worship services in person, but are moving online...

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  • 15 Things Every Church Must Have in Its Technology Stack

    15 Things Every Church Must Have in Its Technology Stack

    When I was young, I used to collect and trade baseball cards with the other kids in the neighborhood. The cards we collected were not really worth much money, so whenever I tried to...

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  • Coordinating a Long Video Shoot outside Your Church

    Coordinating a Long Video Shoot outside Your Church

    Last month, I wrote an article about creating shorter videos for your church, but sometimes, a story can take a little longer than two minutes to tell. While many of the concepts behind...

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  • Coordinating a Short Video Shoot inside Your Church

    Coordinating a Short Video Shoot inside Your Church

    As many churches continue to see the value in social media for reaching out to their communities, it’s important that we use best practices for helping our content reach more people. As...

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  • Pros and Cons of Slack for Churches18:36

    Pros and Cons of Slack for Churches

    Slack excels at the rapid exchanges between users that enable organizations to make decisions and communicate quickly. Should your church jump on the bandwagon and start using it?

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  • Pros and Cons of Slack for Churches

    Pros and Cons of Slack for Churches

    With the rapid-fire pace of web applications today, it seems there’s a new must-have product about every other week. Generally, these come and go and aren’t actually all that new or...

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  • Creating a Welcome Email Series to Follow Up with Visitors24:06

    Creating a Welcome Email Series to Follow Up with Visitors

    In a highly automated society, people get kind of cynical about emails that are distant, non-specific, or feel like a formulaic letter. So how do we use email to establish a real relationship with our

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  • Creating a Welcome Email Series to Follow Up with Visitors

    Creating a Welcome Email Series to Follow Up with Visitors

    What happens after someone visits your congregation? At my church, the visitors sign a guest book and a day or two later, they receive a letter in the mail from the pastor—which is an...

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  • Evernote for Pastors, Church Offices, and Ministry Teams

    Evernote for Pastors, Church Offices, and Ministry Teams

    Before computers became integrated with our lives, the big office complaint was about paper. A good deal of our communication and information storage involved paper. How to store that...

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  • Creating a Custom Worship Bulletin with Lutheran Service Builder59:48

    Creating a Custom Worship Bulletin with Lutheran Service Builder

    Join marketing manager Peter Frank to learn how to use the bulletin feature in Lutheran Service Builder. You’ll learn how to select and modify elements of the service, as well as how to create and use

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  • Remembering 149 Years of Technology at CPH19:54

    Remembering 149 Years of Technology at CPH

    Though the way content is created, delivered, consumed, and applied looks different in many ways, one thing will always remain constant: “the word of the Lord endures forever” (1 Peter 1:25).

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  • Creating a Custom Worship Bulletin with Lutheran Service Builder1:06:52

    Creating a Custom Worship Bulletin with Lutheran Service Builder

    Join marketing manager Peter Frank to learn how to use the bulletin feature in Lutheran Service Builder. You’ll learn how to select and modify elements of the service, as well as how to create and use

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  • Creating a Custom Worship Bulletin with Lutheran Service Builder1:09:46

    Creating a Custom Worship Bulletin with Lutheran Service Builder

    Join marketing manager Peter Frank to learn how to use the bulletin feature in Lutheran Service Builder. You’ll learn how to select and modify elements of the service, as well as how to create and use

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  • Remembering 149 Years of Technology at CPH

    Remembering 149 Years of Technology at CPH

    Happy 149th birthday, Concordia Publishing House! Of course, there’s a bunch of excitement about the big one-five-zero happening a year from now (and rightfully so!), but you only turn...

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