Is Your Online Service a Temporary Fix or a New Missions Strategy?
COVID provides an opportunity for churches to reimagine their ministry and their worship reach.
Let's discuss how churches can communicate well using websites, social media, and other tools.
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COVID provides an opportunity for churches to reimagine their ministry and their worship reach.
What questions do you have about communication, technology, marketing, or best practices during the coronavirus pandemic? How can we help?
List your church website for others to look at. Get inspiration from others, while also inspiring other church communicators!
It's been over a year since the launch of the Bridge App. As part of my internship with the CRCNA, I had the opportunity to interview a few congregations to see how they are feeling about the app.
If your church has prepared a communication plan/strategy, would you be willing to share it?
How does your church approach volunteer recruitment?
A lot of churches are wrestling with the validity and purpose of their regularly-printed newsletter.
After PM Trudeau's "failed joke" involving inclusive language, how do we as Christians use words that acknowledge the image of God?
In the latest article, we talk about ideas for how to follow-up with visitors once you get their information. How do you follow-up with guests?
Social media is used every day, both in and out of the church. What types of guidelines do you have for your church's social presence?
A huge appeal of Instagram is that it is visual, allowing stories to be told in a way that simply could not be done by text alone. Is your church currently using, or considering using, Instagram?
I know the church directory is intended to be a resource for members to be able to contact each other. Yet I wonder, is it being used?
If podcasts can help reach a bigger audience with the love of Jesus then let’s do it! Right?
This webinar will take a look at recent changes and share some best practices for getting the most out of Facebook.
There must be a simple answer, but I would like to know the ins and outs of using pictures of people on our church's website. Do people give implicit permission by attending church events?
I just wanted to pass along a recommendation for a website that we've found very useful here in NYC that is now going national. It's called Faith Street (faithstreet.com), and it helps people find your church.
How would you produce a video from a church service? With a tight budget, not a lot of video techs hanging around looking to spend hours and hours of time editing video, here is what I did.
Here's a forum post about it and here's the new guidelines. Does anyone know when this changed? I'm wondering what will happen to those of us whose churches already had a non-profit version approved in the past.
For a master's in communications I am pursuing here in Grand Rapids at GVSU, I'm doing a study of my church's communications: Facebook, website, bulletin announcements, prayer chains, etc. I'd like to do a survey of the church members, asking them about comm preferences, tools they use, that sort of thing.
For those working with their home church website, do you have your church library hooked up with your website? Do you have a discussion forum about library materials?
Should CRC start an Internet Bible study journey similar to The One Year Bible Journey?
I would like to give a very much appreciated "Thanks" to whomever is responsible for the change in the Captcha thingy.
I'm interested in following a few active (at least 2-3 posts/week) church Facebook pages. Is your church on Facebook? Please post a link so I can check out the page. Thanks!