Staying Connected with Your Church's College Students
As our summer intern, Audrey, leaves CTS to go back to school, she has a few tips for churches on how to stay connected with college students who are away
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Advice on Managing Your Church’s Facebook Strategy
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How to Find Joy in Your To-Do List
I’m always impressed by a good marketing strategy, and the folks at Netflix have shown once again they know how to market. On January 1, 2019, the day when New Year’s resolutions are...
Setting Your Church’s Communication Priorities for 2019
Happy new year! For many, on a personal level, a new year means quitting a bad a habit, starting a good habit, making new goals, being more intentional about everyday tasks, and...
18:36Pros 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?
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...
Which Email Marketing Service Should My Church Use?
More and more, church offices are utilizing web-based email marketing services for communicating with their congregations. Why are they doing this?
29:015 Ways to Implement Agile Methodology in Churches
Sometimes churches move at the speed of committees. So there’s a lot we can learn from the software development world’s use of agile methodology, in which prototypes are created quickly, tested early,
5 Ways to Implement Agile Methodology in Churches
Have you ever worked on a project for a church committee where you’ve spent weeks meeting, planning, studying, and preparing to make a decision, then a few more weeks double-checking...
Prioritizing Content on Your Church Website for Visitors
In the past, the front door of your church was probably, well, the front door. These days, however, the first exposure visitors get to your church is probably via your church website....
24:06Creating 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
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...
28:46Communications for Last-Minute Church Events
Hear from Stacy Yates live as we chat with her about best practices for communicating about last-minute church events.
Communications for Last-Minute Church Events
Whether they’re potlucks, special voters’ meetings, or trunk-or-treats, last-minute events are bound to happen (sometimes more often than we would like!). The idea of driving attendance...
28:08Adjusting Your Schedule to Get More Productive and Creative
Knowing the “science of timing” can help us to prioritize when we dig into a particular project, based on when we are typically at our best for each kind of work. Hear what DCE and church communicator
Adjusting Your Schedule to Get More Productive and Creative
One of my greatest struggles working in a communications role for a church is finding the balance between executing existing plans or ideas and finding space for creativity and...
20:12Evernote for Pastors, Church Offices, and Ministry Teams
Do you use Evernote? Learn how churches can stay organized and work as a team by using the program. We'll hear from freelance writer and web strategist Lora Horn.
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...
26:21Software Training for Successful Change
Hear from Rev. Bill Johnson, director of educational technology at Concordia Theological Seminary, about how church workers can implement software training for successful change.
Software Training for Successful Change
Perhaps you’ve heard this story before: a congregation invests a great deal of money in a new church management software, rolls it out to pastors, secretaries, and other users....
16:03Resources for Continuing Education in the Church