Digital Ministry

Churches are looking for great ways to get congregation information to communicate effectively as well as manage a diverse volunteer group and so a...

When done right… effective guest follow up can be completed in less than 45 seconds per guest. It sounds crazy, but it’s not. Churches all across the county are leveraging technology to do it every week.

When it comes to social media management the volume of options available is amazing. If you're just starting out you may find it easiest to go to each network and manage things there. As your reach and strategy grows you'll quickly find a need for a more robust solution.

Without rocking your world too much I'd like to state the obvious... Volunteers are the life blood of your church. While we all would acknowledge that fact. It's easy to forget about in the day to day of ministry. They dutifully arrive every week, with a smile on their face (real or painted on) and serve. Regardless of their motivation, our effectiveness long-term depends on them. We could never hire the volume of people needed to run our church and we shouldn't have to. The challenge comes down to expectations.

Like most church leaders, you probably spend a lot of time thinking about your ministries, your people, your budget and operations, next Sunday’s service, and a million other things. Keeping all of those things on track is more than a full-time job — so how much time do you have to focus on your church’s culture? In working with thousands of churches over the years, I’ve found that you can be ‘doing the right stuff’, but without a healthy church culture your ministry will never reach its full potential for the Kingdom.

If you’ve been on a church tech blog (like this one!) anytime in the past half-decade, you’ve probably heard a thing or three about online giving. You may have heard that online giving is continually linked to increases in overall giving.

Your church probably has a website. You know the days of using the phone book to find a church are pretty much over. So what are the important characteristics of a good church website?

There may be no nip of Fall in the air yet, but thoughts are already on getting your Christian private school ready for a new term. This can take weeks of preparation to make sure that your administrative staff, teachers, parents and of course students are all prepared to make it a successful one.