Digital Ministry

Easter is just around the corner and if you haven’t started promoting your Easter service or pageant on social media yet, now is a great time to start. Not only is Easter one of the most attended church services of the year, but it’s also a great time to share the good news with people who may not have heard it before. When creating your Easter social media strategy, It’s important to tell your unique story of your church. Every church is different and you want to explain how you stand out. Below are seven tips you can use to promote your Easter service on social media this year and tell your story.

Easter video and media can add an incredibly warm touch to your church services. Christian video producers are creating new videos weekly, and sites like Worship House Media, offer a wonderful selection of videos to add to your already excellent church services.

As a church leader, you know that each person in your worship services or small groups is valuable. You hope that each person will want to grow spiritually as a part of your church family. But you realize that people come and go. Every church will have losses. People move away or graduate to heaven. And it’s inevitable that some folks will leave the church despite its best efforts to help them belong. Sometimes God wants to replant them somewhere else. Sometimes it’s a matter of “fit.”

Easter is not a typical Sunday for more than just the message that you will be giving. Churches tell a different story than what is told for secular Easter -- it might be obvious, but I'll say it: churches need to communicate differently on Easter.

There’s no shortage of data in the world today—more data was created in the last two years than in the previous 5,000. In fact, 90% of the data we currently use was created in the last two years! For churches, the enormous amount of giving data is enough to make your head spin, but it’s still necessary to collect, organize, and apply it. Healthy churches know that with the right giving information at their fingertips, they’re better equipped to cultivate generosity and grow their vision.

Regardless of church size or the number of people on-staff, churches have similar email and application needs as for-profit businesses. Churches use Word or Pages documents, spreadsheets, email, presentation software, and a variety of other tools to make running a church a bit easier. G-Suite, or Google Suite, offers several options for online collaboration that many churches leverage for greater impact at little to no cost. In this article, we'll look at three benefits of Google Suite for churches and nonprofits and how these solutions can save your churches time and money while increasing efficiency.

Fairly soon in the life of any congregation, it becomes obvious that spreadsheets aren’t sufficient for keeping track of who completed the new member class, whether anyone followed up with last week’s visitors, or who’s signed up to serve this week. That’s where a church management system (ChMS) comes into play. There’s a wide variety of systems to choose from; each with its own specialties and functions. In this review of Planning Center, my goal is to introduce you to it’s features and offer a few suggestions as you decide whether this could be the best ChMS fit for your church.

The pastor's salary is frequently a source of contention. How much should a pastor make? On the one hand, people argue that they are to be servants and thus can serve within the church as pastor while working elsewhere. They will cite the Apostle Paul and say that he had a tent-making job, then claim that modern pastors must do the same. So, it’s a question that is on a lot of people’s minds. The Bible, however, clears up any confusion on the subject.