Planting Space

In case you haven’t yet noticed, a brand new newchurches.com launched today. Okay actually it was yesterday but for many of us our DNS servers took a while to notice the change. This new website is a collaboration between Passion For Planting, Ed Stetzer and Church Plant Media… all devoted to providing the [...]

Some church planters just aren’t interested in press releases. They say they’ve tried it before and it didn’t work. They say it’s too much work. They say nobody has ever mentioned a press release when asked why they came.
I must admit that sometimes they are less effective than others. Sometimes they [...]

Here’s the secret to getting your first press release published… are you ready?
Get to know the reporter.
Build a personal relationship with them. Consider this is a must have relationship for the pastor of the new church. This is true for several reasons.

They need to know about Christ and this new [...]

Many church planters fail to take advantage of free press releases. Newspapers are frequently happy to publish articles about newsworthy activities of your church. This is the first in several posts about press releases.
A press release is simply a news story, written in the third person, that demonstrates that your new church [...]

The goal of marketing your new church is to get the maximum amount of exposure for the fewest dollars. One great way to do this is to take advantage of free online advertising. Even if one person comes to your church it will be worth the five or ten minutes you spend setting up [...]

The habits you form now will dictate the kind of church you are later.
Often church planters think that they’ll start reaching people once they launch or they’ll start doing service projects once they have a bigger crowd or they’ll take a day off once things slow down a bit. I’ve seen many planters make [...]