Share Your Church

We’re going to spend the next few weeks looking at google products that can help you share your church better. I know, I know Google is one of those companies that you either love or hate, and I’ll be honest with you. I love them. There’s lots of other products, companies, and services out there [...]

It seems that outreach and seeker sensitive are two of the most popular buzzwords in our churches today. What happened to servanthood? Having a church full of servants is a great way to reach out to the community because the community then sees a church that truly loves people the way Christ loves people. We [...]

I’m not quite sure I would call the first church we visited a mega church but I would call it honking huge. When we pulled into the parking lot I needed help fron someone to simply point out what door I needed to be heading for.  I didn’t want to walk in the wrong door and [...]

Part two of our Web Ministry transformation series on Share Your Church looks at the story of your church.  This is a much more encompassing view of your church’s story that is traditionally thought.  On a church’s web brochure the church story would consist of the history of the church.  When you look at a [...]

I heard about this website shortly after bringing up the idea of a phonetree system at our church council.  The phonetree system seemed a bit expensive for us at the time, so I went and explored my options.  I saw lots of web services that seemed to do the trick, but all of them required [...]

Part one of our Web Ministry transformation series on Share Your Church looks at how your web site looks. I know, I know, we all teach our kids that looks aren’t important. If this is completely true, then why do we worry about what they wear? Your websites design is a very [...]

Part of Sharing Your Church is making sure that when people come to your church building that you are reaching them where they are. Many churches today use digital projectors to show announcements, lyrics to songs and sermon outlines. Most of these churches use Microsoft PowerPoint to display these items on the screen. [...]

What is a web ministry? How does it apply to your church’s web site? Many church web sites are simply a brochure placed on the internet. Many of these “brochure-sites” are very well put together and look great. Some of them do a great job at presenting information about the church. [...]

The internet has offered us unprecedented ways of finding and distributing information. We have gone past the information age straight to the information overload age. Google has set out to bring all of this information together into one place. You can ignore that fact, bemoan that fact, or use it to share [...]

When you Share Your Church with the world you have to be prepared to welcome them into your church. A few years ago my wife and I moved to Atlanta, Ga.  I had a few friends up here and they recommended numerous churches for us to go visit.  In the course of the first 5-6 weeks [...]