Awkward! Planting Near Your Sending Church
As our church campuses and plants began to spring up around the region, one location seemed to be missing: the neighboring city of Elkhart, near our sending church.
Category: How To’s
You Can Coax Volunteers, but You Probably Won’t Keep Them!
Recruiting volunteers is difficult work. But I think recruitment can be eased with a little work on the front end by the recruiters.
Teach Your Volunteers How to Quit
God has entrusted us to help fulfill the mission of the church with our own talents along with those we recruit, train and allow graceful dismissal.
How to Use a Community Development Corporation to Ignite Your Outreach
Although a community development corporation (CDC) is not an exclusively religious organization, it can still accomplish the purpose of evangelism.
Writing Sermons: Help for Church Planters
The Holy Spirit breathed upon each prophet and singer, opened their hearts and ears and eyes to the spiritual realities around them. But they were still writers; and so are you if you’re writing sermons.
You Can Learn to Livestream Services—The Basics
Learning to live stream services doesn’t require advanced degrees in information technology, engineering and video production. Start here.
Start Your Podcast for Under $100
So, you want to produce your own podcast. It’s pretty easy, actually: Sit down at your laptop, open up an audio application (for example Garage Band, which comes free with every Mac), and start talking.
EVERYTHING You Need to Know About Church Microphones
The microphone is the “ear” that captures the sound, and everything else that happens downstream—preamp, equalization, compression, and effects—can only manipulate the raw material provided by the mic.
Is Your Church Plant a “Product?”
We followed the church planting formula given at so many of the church planting conferences and in 16 months launched a new church in the middle of a cornfield. However, some of us had begun to sense something wasn’t right.
No Matter the Tech Channel, We Need to Communicate Clearly
No matter the tech channel, we need to communicate clearly. Here are three strategic characteristics that will help your marketing be successful no matter what tools you use.
