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Using the Super Bowl as an Outreach Opportunity

January 18th, 2010 No Comments

Did you know that the NFL has been aggressive with protecting their copyrights against churches?

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Fish Out of Water?

December 2nd, 2009 No Comments

Do first-time visitors to your church feel like fish out of water? How would you know? What is normal to us may be completely foreign to them…

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War Fatigue

November 2nd, 2009 No Comments

9/11/2001 seems like a long time ago.  I remember that period of time immediately following the attacks.  Never in my life have I seen such unity in our nation.  When we went to war it was with a nearly unanimous voice.  Now eight years later, we have war fatigue.  We have forgotten the initial shock [...]

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Using Twitter to Learn about the Community

November 2nd, 2009 No Comments

Here is a tip for church planters trying to better understand their community.  Use Twitter.  Twitter has a build in search engine that allows you to search Tweets.  Simply search for the name of the city you are in to see all tweets with the name of the city in it.  This will give you [...]

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Overhaul Your Church Calendar

September 14th, 2009 No Comments

The church calendar usually starts with, “What do we want to do this year?” or, “What did we do last year?” In order to create a missional mindset and community focus…

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Blogging for Community Impact Part 4

August 12th, 2009 No Comments

Part 1 focused on first assessing the needs of your community.
Part 2 focused on assessing the strengths of your church and finding areas of overlap between community needs and church strengths.
Part 3 focused on developing a blogging strategy.
This final post will focus on the benefits of Blogging for Community Impact.

Credibility and trust. Blogging will increase [...]

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Blogging for Community Impact Part 3

August 5th, 2009 1 Comment

Part 1 focused on first assessing the needs of your community.
Part 2 focused on assessing the strengths of your church and finding areas of overlap between community needs and church strengths.
Here are some practical suggestions for building a strategy to blog for community impact.

Provide content that meets the identified community need. The goal is to [...]

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Blogging for Community Impact Part 2

July 29th, 2009 1 Comment

Part 1 focused on first assessing the needs of your community.
Once you have identified those needs, you now need to look inward to assess the strengths of your church.  This should include:

The gifts and passions of the staff
The talents and resources of the members
Ask, “What are you already known for in the community?”  If you [...]

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Blogging for Community Impact Part 1

July 22nd, 2009 1 Comment

Blogs have been around since 1997.  They are old in the social media world and some would argue they aren’t truly social media, but that’s because no one comments on their blogs.  Church blogs typically focus on those involved in the church  Normally, they are another medium to make announcements.  At their best, church blogs [...]

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The Best of Small Groups Diversified

July 17th, 2009 No Comments

Vince Antonucci is planting a new church on the Vegas strip, for people who live and work on the strip. Given his unique context, God has inspired him to use a unique approach to small groups…

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