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Find Property For Your Church
Finding land for growing churches is no easy task and Kent Shaffer wants to help. He is developing a new website called Acre Scout to help those with land to sell connect with churches looking...
Powerful Stories - Everyday People
I Am Second recently launched is it is a collection of stories from people that are dealing with struggles and experiencing life change. It is one of the most interesting video driven Christian...
12 Stone Church
12 Stone. metro Atlanta. A great church community.
Small Groups Can Learn From BMW
If you watch the video below you can see some experimentation that BMW is doing in changing the skin of their cars to a flexible material instead of rigid steel or fiberglass. How does this apply to groups?...
Willow Creek Group Life Conference
Small Group Help has posted some notes and summaries of the Group Life Conference at Willow Creek. Click here to check it out. Below are the video highlights: Session 1 - John Burke Session...
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What Do Parents Want?
When looking for a church to attend, what do you think parents want? Kent Shaffer recently posted the following list: A children’s ministry that makes their kids feel loved. A children’s...
Children's Ministry Decor - Worlds of Wow!
Worlds of wow continues to hit it out of the park. Here is a recent video of a project the completed in some Children's Ministry space.
Conspire - Children's Ministry Conference
The Willow Creek Association puts on a number of great events every year and their Children's Ministry Conference is one of them. Every couple of years we send a team of volunteers and staff from...
Recruiting Volunteers for Kids Ministry
Each year our church does a HUGE kids event we call Kids Camp. To execute this event on such a large scale we need about 300 volunteers to pull it off. Here is a funny video we produced to...
Jelly Telly
The average American kid watches 5 hours of media per day! That amazes me. We limit the amount of TV our kids watch daily and I remember having similar limitations while I was growing up. The interesting...
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What Changes Would You Make?
One thing I often like to ask new people who have only attended our church for a short time is, "What would you do differently at our church if you could change one thing?" Granger Community...
Shift - Student Ministries Conference
When I first joined the church planting team at Christ's Church of the Valley my role was to get our youth ministry started. It was an exciting time starting with 4 teenagers and turning our youth...
High School Retreat Ideas
Since we are currently searching for a youth pastor at our church, I had the opportunity to plan Escape, our High School Retreat, with our summer interns. As we were driving to the retreat...
412 Students (a.k.a. Sidekick)
Do you want to provide a great camp or retreat for your student ministry, but dread taking care of all the details? 412 Students (a.k.a. Sidekick) organizes camps, retreats and weekend conferences...
The Bridge
The Bridge, located in Joplin, Missouri, will open it's new 64,000 square foot building on April 7. It features a 45' rock climbing gym, cage basketball, an internet cafe, wireless hotspot and...
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Christmas At Willow Creek - Online
Willow Creek expected up to 80,000 to attend one of the 12 identical services that they were prepareing for the Christmas season this year. You can now view the entire 90 minute program by...
Do More With Projection
Sometimes I think many ministry staff can get stuck in a rutt with worship experiences. There are a ton of ways we can use a video projector that just the usual Sunday way to put up words for songs,...
Announcements Made Easy
Doing announcements at church on Sunday is always a challenge. Sometimes it can put a real damper on the worship experience. Tim Stevens posted recently on how Granger is changing the way they handle...
Is Drama Dead In The Church?
Nancy Beach recently posted a discussion she had with some local leaders in the Chicago area where they asked if drama was still relevant in the church. Here is her post: I just spent a long lunch...
Lincoln Brewster - Today is the Day
Lincoln Brewster's latest, Today is the Day, is finally out! Check it out to get some great worship stuff.
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A New Type Of Christmas Marketing
The Plow is doing a new type of Christmas marketing this year. Click on the image below for details!
Rebranding Your Church
Like it or not each church leaves it footprint in a community. Some are small, some are large, some have a unique shape and get noticed by people far from God while others can barely be seen. ...
Building a Successful Website in 6 Steps
Smashing Magazine recently published a great article on strategic web design. Here are the six steps: 1. Establish your goals One of the first things you need to do before...
The Basics of Church Communication
Church communication according to Kem Meyer: The Communications department is involved with what you read, touch or click beyond the auditorium. We believe excellence honors God & inspires people....
Church Marketing Mistakes
Kyle, on his blog - The Plow, posted some findings he recently read in Branding Faith by Phil Cooke. It focuses on mistakes churches make when hiring and agency or contractor for marketing help:...
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Why We Fail
Tony Morgan recently posted a great list of common reasons failure happens: It’s not your passion. If it doesn’t make your heart beat fast or cause your mind to race when you’re trying...
Managing The Email Monster
Don't let your email take over your life! Working in ministry can send just as much email your way as any other job. Sometimes more when you are a pastor of a larger church and you have an...
5 Key Parts of Leadership
Mac Lake is the Leadership Pastor at Seacoast Church. He recently posted about some leadership principles he learned from reading The Carrot Principle: Read The Carrot Principle while sitting in...
Cost Cutting at Church
Some churches are dealing with big financial issues as their congregations don't grow or as budgets shrink in economically challenging times. Kevin Stone at Executive Pastor Online recently posted...
Prevent Burnout
Kem Meyer from Granger Community Church recently posted on preventing burnout: Find ways to get closer to God. Some things I'm trying right now. Evaluate your task list. Do your tasks directly connect...
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Connect With Other Church Leaders
Ever wish you could ask other church leaders or pastors for advice on what you should do next in your church? Or wished you could get some face time with someone who maybe has been in your shoes...
Yonkly - Create Your Own Micro-blog Community
With Yonkly you can basically create your own "twitter" type of community but focus it around any people group you can think of. Watch the video below for more info:
Blackberry Bible App Update
In October of 2008 You Version released it's first Blacberry Bible App. You can read my post on its release here. The update they recently release has some nice upgrades. Here is the...
Free Photo Editing Tool
Have you ever wished you had Photoshop but just can't afford it? What about having a quick easy way to add text to an image for a flyer, web image, or background slide? Picnik may just be your FREE...
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