Communications
Churches are all about effective communication with their staff and congregation … in print, web and verbally … in regular times and emergencies.
Stealing Genius
How to Get Game-Changing Building Ideas from Your Staff What if the best ideas for improving your church spaces were already in the room—hiding in the minds of your staff and volunteers? In this [...]
10 Secrets to a Successful Social Media Presence
In today's digital age, social media has become an invaluable tool for churches to connect with their congregation, engage with the wider community and spread their message of faith. With millions of people actively [...]
Good Stewardship of Marketing Budgets
Let's dive into how to build an effective marketing budget. How do you advertise in various seasons of ministry? Lots of churches are walking into the budget season so this is a [...]
Three Areas where AI will Benefit Your Church Teams
AI can feel like the Wild West, where it's constantly advancing and changing. What can you do to use it to help your teams? Where do you turn for advice? How can [...]
A Top-of-Funnel Conversation About Leveraging Google, Content, and AI
If you're a church that embraces the mission Jesus sent us on to "go and make all disciples,” then you are likely laser-focused in your approach and mindset around growth. But many [...]
Beyond Sunday: Engaging Your Community Monday through Saturday
Gone are the days of thinking attendance leads to engagement. In a digital-first era, churches are re-thinking how to approach community engagement and may not have the right people, technology, and processes [...]
The Collective Might Platform
How do you maximize the strength of your church? All of our churches have wonderful strengths, but they are not always fully utilized or appreciated. Gloo connects the faith ecosystem and enables [...]
Websites that Provide Resources & Create Leads
Your church website is important to your ministry—of course, we all know that! It is one of the key ways to get information out to members and visitors. In this sense, it [...]
How Marketing Strategies Play a Role in Creating Disciples: Using the Member Lifecycle
Articulating your Church’s Member Lifecycle or member engagement strategy will help you know your people, define the next steps for growing their faith and result in growing your church. Let technology help [...]
Leadership Live: Connecting to the Congregation
Leadership Live is a concept that Village Bible Church developed to connect with its congregation. Village Bible is a church of 1,500 people, spread across 5 campuses. They were looking for ways to connect with [...]
Great Pastoral Communication by Video
Churches should always over-communicate with the congregation. This is especially so during a crisis, such as the pandemic. Here is a superb video from Lighthouse Community Church. It is a message from their elders to [...]
Free Qnnection App: A Conversation Starter
Each question in the free Qnnection app leads to a meaningful conversation. The app is designed to empower and enable the individual to improve conversation, small talk and daily interactions rooted in the rhythm [...]
Video Calls – They’re Pandemic!
The coronavirus (Covid-19) has many staff working from home, and there are a number of things worth considering as you manage the ‘brand’ of your church in a distributed work environment. Video Call Solution [...]
7 Essentials for Your Church Website
At Vanderbloemen, we spend a lot of time on church websites. Probably more time than anyone you know. In our time, we’ve seen a lot of good websites...and some that, well, leave a lot [...]
New Web Name for Our Church
Monday, February 4, 2019 Hey Fletch … We are wanting to come up with a new url for our church. What are your thoughts on what would be effective? DRF—Many churches go with the [...]
Emergency Preparedness Plan
Monday, December 17, 2018 Hey Fletch … Do you provide on XPastor any emergency preparedness plan templates for churches? DRF—We have some information on emergency response plans. Here is a link to various posts on [...]
Announcements for Benevolence Offerings
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Announcements for Benevolence Offerings Hey Fletch … I read the recent “Hey Fletch” column about the benevolence offering for the woman with cancer. I get that donations cannot be earmarked [...]
Urgency Mode in Email
Thursday, May 31, 2018 Hey Fletch … I have a grid of how staff can send me emails to get my attention. I created a four-part numbering system. This lets me immediately know how [...]
Who Should Communication’s Leader Report To?
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Hey Fletch … We are a church of 1,400. We do not currently have a dedicated communications person. If we explore going to a new hire, who do they typically [...]
No Response to Emails
February 9, 2018 Hey Fletch … Some of our junior staff are terrible at responding to emails. They say, “our generation likes texts.” One staff member took a month to get me his annual [...]
The Three Big Mistakes Most Churches Make on Their Websites
In my day job, I have the opportunity to look at a lot of church websites. The thing is, I keep seeing the same three mistakes made on the majority of the sites I visit. [...]
Less Clutter. Less Noise
I came across Kem Meyer a few years ago when I spent the day in my office listening to The Nines Webinar Conference. I was so intrigued and delighted by her approach and expertise [...]
Communications Strategy
The XPastor Online Course on Operations 102—Communications encourages students to develop a communications strategy for their church. Below is the Communications Strategy of one of our students, the Executive Pastor for Seven Mile Road [...]
Why Podcasts are Critical to Your Church
There’s been a shift in the world. Is your church adapting? The shift is in how people use media and their expectation of what our churches offer. It all started when people could easily record [...]