Gone are the days where online ministry was only about recording a sermon and making it downloadable on your church website. These days, the term ‘online ministry’ encompasses a variety of ways churches reach people through social media, courses, podcasts, and video (to name just a few).
Since millions of people consume content on various social media platforms it makes sense to show sermon recaps there. However, this space is saturated with people vying for your attention. To gain more visibility, use creative design and animation techniques to arrest attention. In other words, it needs to stop the user in the middle of their scroll and invite them into the message.
In this video, watch Jay Kranda, the online community pastor for Saddleback Church, perform a church website audit for Grace Community Church in Arlington, VA.
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Did you know that you can create your own flash briefings? As a church, this can be a powerful tool. Imagine using briefings to notify a group about important information or to simply invite listeners to a focused time together every day. Now, envision that functionality personalized to update members of a church community with messages and encouragement from the leadership. Actually, it's already happening. Keep reading and we'll explore the ways it can be used.
Every social media manager is looking for the next new viral post idea. We can spend hours scouring the social media networks for the latest trends and creating content that we hope is the next big thing. But what if we already have the next big post, we just need to look back instead of forward?