The SundayU Podcast
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The SundayU PodcastMar 26, 2020
Christians & Politics
Justin Dean, Brian Mann, and John Heinz chat about politics and how Christians and churches can be responding in this tumultuous election season. Three Christian guys who love Jesus, but disagree when it comes to politics. Enjoy!
This episode brought to you by Ramsey+.
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Digital Giving Trends with Troy Pollock
Troy Pollock from PushPay and Church Community Builder shares the latest digital giving trends as we come out COVID and churches are re-opening.
Learn more about PushPay at https://pushpay.com
Today's episode is sponsored by Samaritan's Purse:
Did you know that since Operation Christmas Child began, more than 178 million children in over 160 countries and territories have received a gift-filled shoebox?
As the coronavirus continues to spread and cause untold suffering, children need hope and joy now more than ever. This year we anticipate reaching another 11 million children with shoebox gifts. Every child who receives a shoebox gift hears of the gift of salvation in Jesus Christ. Each year over 4 million shoebox recipients also participate in a discipleship program called The Greatest Journey. Through this 12-lesson Bible-based course, children come to know Jesus, learn to follow and obey him, share their faith, and pray for friends and family members. This often results in further evangelism, discipleship, and the multiplication of new churches in their communities.
Visit Samaritan's Purse online at https://samaritanspurse.org/occ to learn how you can pack a shoebox gift and be part of this global effort to fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
Rick Dunham and the State of Giving in the Church Amid Uncertain Times
Justin Dean talks with Rick Dunham from Dunham and Company about the state of giving in the church, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the civil unrest happening in the country. Dunham and Company conducted a poll of donors in April of 2020 and released a free report for you to review.
Grab the report and more here: https://www.dunhamandcompany.com/fundraising-research/donor-confidence-strong-in-the-face-of-covid-19/
Check out more free resources for churches from Dunham & Company here: https://dunhamandcompany.com/church
The New Church Paradigm
The Coronavirus crisis has forced churches online. We’re now doing ministry digitally, and God is at work in ways like never before. When the crisis ends, will the church be able to go back to “normal?”
Chuck Scoggins thinks church has changed for good, and we need to adapt. In today’s episode he walks us through 5 things you can do to be better prepared for the new church paradigm.
Visit SundayMag.tv for more resources and tips.
COVID-19 Coronavirus & Your Church
As we come to the end of an unprecedented week in the U.S., churches everywhere are scrambling to figure out how to respond and what to do about the growing concern for the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic hitting our country.
In today’s episode of the Sunday to Sunday Podcast, Justin Dean has some advice for you as well as some helpful resources to share as we navigate this time together.
View more at https://www.sundaymag.tv/covid-19-your-church/
First Time Guest Gift Ideas
One of the questions we get asked or see asked in Facebook Groups most often is this: “What’s everyone doing for first time guest gifts?”
It’s a great question, but it’s amazing how many churches get it wrong.
Chuck Scoggins walks through some first-time guest gift ideas for your church.
Read more at SundayMag: https://www.sundaymag.tv/four-great-guest-gift-ideas/
Get practical resources at CourageousStorytellers.com
SEO Best Practices with Hannah McNaughton
SHOW NOTES
Do you want to improve SEO for your church or organization? Wondering how to do it?
To dive into the details of SEO, Meagan Ranson interviewed Hannah McNaughton of Metric Marketing. Hannah is the founder of CEO of Metric Marketing and has been in the business of SEO best practices for 15+ years.
USEFUL INFORMATION:
SEO 101 Podcast: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ministry-communicators/that-church-podcast/e/59601346
Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf
Connect with Hannah
https://www.metricmarketing.com/
View Hannah’s Speaking Schedule.
2020 Digital Summit SEO Workshops:
Last Minute Christmas Marketing Tips
The New Metrics of Social Media Success with Jonathan Malm
Justin Dean chats with Jonathan Malm from SundaySocial.tv and got his perspective on The New Metrics of Social Media Success... specifically what your church should be monitoring and measuring online to determine if your social media efforts are successful.
Check out http://SundaySocial.tv for quality images and videos that you can post for your church.
The Importance of a Social Media Policy
Part of your social media strategy at any organization, but especially a church, should include the use of a social media policy.
Download an editable version of the policy in DOC, Pages, and PDF format: https://sundayu.com/product/church-social-media-policy/
Read more on SundayU.com: https://sundayu.com/the-importance-of-a-social-media-policy/
This episode is sponsored by HealPay. Learn more at healpay.com
The Church Communications Credo
Today's episode is brought to you by Northpark University. Head on over to www.northpark.edu to learn more.
Tik Tok, Snapchat, and How Your Church Can Do Better
Everyone's going crazy over Tik Tok, the newest, shiniest, if-your-church-cares-about-millennials-it-will-use-this social network. So let's take a look... should your church be on Tik Tok... or is it another Snapchat? Justin Dean walks you through it.
Today's episode is sponsored by Ekklesia360.com
More on Snapchat: https://sundayu.com/should-your-church-be-on-snapchat/
Why Every Church Should Do A Family Fall Festival Event
Chuck Scoggins from SundayU walks you through the reasons why your church should do a family fall festival event (or Trunk or Treat), and gives you practical steps to making yours the most successful it can be by setting up an automated email sequence funnel for guest follow-up!
Fall Resources from SundayU.com:
- Grab the Fall Festival Follow Up Plan
- Grab the Fall Festival Promo Kit
- "Why Every Church Should Do a Family Fall Festival Event" blog post by Chuck Scoggins
Creating a Communications Manual
Meagan Ranson walks through why you need a communications manual for your church, and how to build one.
What Even is Branding? (And Why It Matters)
How to Break Up Your Sermon Throughout the Week
SEO 101 for Churches with Meagan Ranson
Are You Promoting Your Church or Pointing People to Jesus
How Jeremy Schroeder & Declaration Church Survived Hurricane Harvey
Justin talks with Jeremy Schroeder, the Communications Director from Declaration Church in Houston, TX. Jeremy got his start at Declaration during the tragedy of Hurricane Harvey... volunteering to utilize social media to mobilize his church to help the community. His story is amazing. Listen through to the end - we've got a HUGE surprise for Jeremy.
Year-End Giving Tips for Churches
Welcome to Sunday to Sunday
Church Communicators & Senior Pastors -BFF's 4EVA with Seth Muse
Why Your Church Needs a Wordpress Website with Adrian Campos
What are Distributed Churches? with Nathan Clark
Nathan shares how they've grown locally through "distributed churches" and other innovative techniques to reach their community.
Building Effective Church Websites with Brandon Swain
Social Media Strategies from the Phoenix Suns with Jeramie McPeek
Bonus Episode - Giving via Digital with Tithely
get.tithe.ly/
How to Get $10,000 in grant money from Google with Chad Hugghins
Implementing the SCOPE system for Communication Requests with Joanna la Fleur
Digital Micro Churches with Nathan Clark
In today’s episode we’re joined by Nathan Clark. In the last 13 years Nathan has founded and led online ministry at Northland Church. Northland was a pioneer in online worship and the first church to stream live worship on the iPhone. Nathan and his wife, Jenn, also run Wondermade - a renowned marshmallow and ice cream company.
SHOW NOTES
Connect with Nathan
www.northlandchurch.net/team/nathan_clark
Wondermade
wondermade.com
His Ted talk
youtu.be/6RuRc6uOFYg
The Easiest Way to do a Church Newsletter You've NEVER heard of with Matt Morrison
In today’s episode we’re joined by Matt Morrison. Matt is the 32-year-old founder of Church OS based in Vancouver, Canada, where he lives with his wife Chelsea and their two daughters. For the past seven years, Church OS has focused on helping churches set up great websites. I think you are really going to enjoy our conversation with Matt on a super simple solution for your email newsletter that we bet you have never thought of and are going to completely facepalm over once you hear about this idea. But, before we get to that...
As this podcast episode goes up on iTunes, That Church Conference is gearing up for our 2nd Intensive Workshop in Chicago. It’s THIS Tuesday April 25th. So...less than 6 days away.
We’re going to be at Soul City Church with a room full of church communications folks, Helping Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. What is a one day Intensive Workshop?
Our Speakers are
LAUREN MCALLISTER - Social Media Manager, First Baptist Jacksonville - Down the Rabbit Hole - Turning Negative Social Conversations into Positive Ones
Mark McDonald - Church Brand Strategist, Be Known For Something - Ways to Know Whether Your Church Brand will Succeed. And How to Fix It.
Ben Stapley - Creative Arts Pastor, Liquid Church - Processing Church Communication Requests
DANNY DE LOS REYES - Media Pastor, Northplace Church - Creating and sustaining a thriving volunteer culture in your department
If you can’t make it to Chicago, we will be making the videos available to our PRO Members on ThatCC.com. Having a PRO Membership is the best way for you and your team to get your hands on all the content on our website. Practical hands on teaching from folks doing what you’re doing at your church. Now, let me put things in perspective here. The ticket to the conference is currently $349. The Annual cost to join our PRO Member site is $489 bucks! Sooooo, for just $49 you can sign up for the monthly PRO account, watch the Chicago Workshop, then cancel your membership. Why would I tell you to do that? Because we have heard from dozens of members that had that same intention, but once they they saw all the amazing content that the PRO membership gave them, they all stuck around. The best value is the annual membership for $489, but feel free to sign up for the monthly to check things out, then we’ll credit that back to you if you want to change to an annual bill. Make sense? Go to thatcc.com to check out all the details.
Let’s get back to our interview with Matt Morrison. Like I said earlier, this process that Matt has, once you hear it, you’re going to be kicking yourself for not having this kind of system in place on your website. An unbelievably simple tool that will for sure make you work smarter, not harder. Mat even has some graphics that he shares on his screen for our PRO Members to watch online, in case you needed another reason to sign up for that.
So sit up, don’t relax and learn from our time with Matt Morrison.
SHOW NOTES
Connect with Matt
twitter.com/mattmorrison
www.churchos.com
The church guest experience from the street to the seat with Mark Weaver
In today’s episode we’re joined by Mark Weaver. Mark is on staff at Vale Church in Bloomington, IL. He has an incredible passion to see people from where ever they are in life’s journey, to discover Christ and His purpose for their life. He has had the opportunity to serve with some of America’s fastest growing churches and believes wholeheartedly in serving people. I think you are really going to enjoy our conversation with Mark. But, before we get to that...
As this podcast episode goes up on iTunes, That Church Conference is gearing up for our 2nd Intensive Workshop in Chicago. It’s on Tuesday April 25th. So...less than 13 days away.
We’re going to be at Soul City Church with a room full of church communications folks, Helping Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. What is a one day Intensive Workshop?
Our Speakers are
LAUREN MCALLISTER - Social Media Manager, First Baptist Jacksonville - Down the Rabbit Hole - Turning Negative Social Conversations into Positive Ones
Mark McDonald - Church Brand Strategist, Be Known For Something - Ways to Know Whether Your Church Brand will Succeed. And How to Fix It.
Ben Stapley - Creative Arts Pastor, Liquid Church - Processing Church Communication Requests
DANNY DE LOS REYES - Media Pastor, Northplace Church - Creating and sustaining a thriving volunteer culture in your department
If you can’t make it to Chicago, we will be making the videos available to our PRO Members on ThatCC.com. Having a PRO Membership is the best way for you and your team to get your hands on all the content on our website. Practical hands on teaching from folks doing what you’re doing at your church. For just $49 you can sign, watch the Chicago Workshop, then cancel your membership. Why would I tell you to do that? Because we have heard from dozens of members that had that same intention, but once they they saw all the amazing content that the PRO membership gave them, they all stuck around. The best value is the annual membership for $489, but feel free to sign up for the monthly to check things out, then we’ll credit that back to you if you want to change to an annual bill.
Let’s get back to our interview with Mark Weaver. Really practical conversation on the process of moving a first time guest through the process of assimilating them into your church. The guest experience from the street to the seat and how to engage them to your church's intentional movement plan to help them take their next steps to fully engage in your church's mission. Mark even has some graphics that he shares on his screen for our PRO Members to watch online.
So sit up, don’t relax and learn from our time with Mark Weaver.
SHOW NOTES
Connect with Mark
www.peoplemattermore.com
twitter.com/markweaver__
www.vale.church
Key Ways for Churches to Engage with Members and People They Want to Attract to their Church with Heather Heuman
In today’s episode we’re joined by Heather Heuman. She is going to be talking with us about Key Ways for Churches to Engage with Members and People They Want to Attract to their Church (Visual Content, Live Video and Posting Tips).
Heather is the CEO/founder of Sweet Tea Social Marketing. Being a social media speaker, consultant and strategist for churches and christian business owners and brands, Heather travels the country helping them leverage the power of social media to get real results by creating a solid strategy and helping them execute it. She's had the privilege of working with clients such as Chick-fil-A, several churches and speaks regularly all over the country. Heather lives in Columbia, SC with her husband and 3 children.
Justin gets to have a really cool conversation with Heather that’s coming up in just a bit.
As this podcast episode goes up on iTunes, That Church Conference is gearing up for our 2nd Intensive Workshop in Chicago. It’s on Tuesday April 25th. So...less than 20 days out.
We’re going to be at Soul City Church with a room full of church communications folks, Helping Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. What is a one day Intensive Workshop?
Our Speakers are
LAUREN MCALLISTER - Social Media Manager, First Baptist Jacksonville - Down the Rabbit Hole - Turning Negative Social Conversations into Positive Ones
Mark McDonald - Church Brand Strategist, Be Known For Something - Ways to Know Whether Your Church Brand will Succeed. And How to Fix It.
Ben Stapley - Creative Arts Pastor, Liquid Church - Processing Church Communication Requests
DANNY DE LOS REYES - Media Pastor, Northplace Church - Creating and sustaining a thriving volunteer culture in your department
We will be broadcasting the entire day via Livestream on thatcc.com brought to by our friends at Tithly, the innovators in church giving. Be sure and check them out at get.tithe.ly. The cost for the Live Stream is $149. You and your entire team can watch and soak in what our speakers will be delivering in the room. If you’re wanting to join us in person, be sure and grab your ticket soon as there are only a few spots left. Hope you can make it!!
Let’s get back to Justin’s interview with Heather Heuman. Key Ways for Churches to Engage with Members and People They Want to Attract to their Church (Visual Content, Live Video and Posting Tips)
SHOW NOTES
Heather’s Contacts:
www.sweetteasocialmarketing.com
twitter.com/heatherheuman
www.facebook.com/SweetTeaSocialMarketing
To Group or Not to Group? with Ryan Bilello
Today’s episode is with Ryan Bilello. He is a foster parent and adoptive daddy living with his wife and 3 children in Milwaukee, WI. When it's not football season or when he’s not enjoying a great local craft beer, he likes to nerd out about all things social media.
We cover whether or not your church should utilize Facebook Groups for various ministry areas.
SHOW NOTES
Reach out to Ryan:
Twitter twitter.com/ryan_bilello
Instagram www.instagram.com/ryan_bilello
Website www.ryanbilello.me
Easter Production and Event Advertising with Lauren McAllister
Today’s episode is...well...interesting to say the least. We’re joined by Lauren McAllister who is the Social Media Manager for 1st Baptist in Jacksonville, FL.
Lauren is going to be one of our speakers at our Chicago Intensive Workshop, April 25th thatcc.com/conference/chicago.
We’re going to be at Soul City Church with a room full of church communications folks doing what we do best, Helping Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. It’s a one day Intensive Workshop. Our Speakers are
LAUREN MCALLISTER - Social Media Manager, First Baptist Jacksonville - Down the Rabbit Hole - Turning Negative Social Conversations into Positive Ones
Mark McDonald - Church Brand Strategist, Be Known For Something - Ways to Know Whether Your Church Brand will Succeed. And How to Fix It.
Ben Stapley - Creative Arts Pastor, Liquid Church - Processing Church Communication Requests
DANNY DE LOS REYES - Media Pastor, Northplace Church - Creating and sustaining a thriving volunteer culture in your department
We will be broadcasting the entire day via Livestream on thatcc.com brought to by our friends at Tithly, the innovators in church giving. Be sure and check them out at get.tithe.ly. The cost for the Live Stream is $149. You and your entire team can watch and soak in what our speakers will be delivering in the room. If you’re wanting to join us in person, be sure and grab your ticket soon.
SHOW NOTES
Is Your Marketing Color Blind? with Mark MacDonald
Today’s episode is with a new friend of ours, Mark MacDonald. Mark is a Bible Teacher, author of Be Known For Something, speaker, and communication strategist for BeKnownForSomething.com. He empowers churches to become known for something relevant (a communication thread) throughout their ministries, websites, and social media.
Mark is going to be one of our speakers at our Chicago Intensive Workshop, April 25th thatcc.com/conference/chicago.
We’re going to be at Soul City Church with a room full of church communications folks doing what we do best, Helping Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. It’s a one day Intensive Workshop. Our Speakers are
Mark McDonald - Church Brand Strategist, Be Known For Something - Ways to Know Whether Your Church Brand will Succeed. And How to Fix It.
LAUREN MCALLISTER - Social Media Manager, First Baptist Jacksonville - Down the Rabbit Hole - Turning Negative Social Conversations into Positive Ones
Ben Stapley - Creative Arts Pastor, Liquid Church - Processing Church Communication Requests
DANNY DE LOS REYES - Media Pastor, Northplace Church - Creating and sustaining a thriving volunteer culture in your department
We will be broadcasting the entire day via Livestream on thatcc.com brought to by our friends at Tithly, the innovators in church giving. Be sure and check them out at get.tithe.ly. The cost for the Live Stream is $149. You and your entire team can watch and soak in what our speakers will be delivering in the room. If you’re wanting to join us in person, be sure and grab your ticket soon. If you listen to this entire episode, Mark actually gives out a discount code that you can use for either the in person of the live stream ticket.
SHOW NOTES
Mark online:
twitter.com/markmac1023
about.me/markmacdonald
www.beknownforsomething.com/
Social Media Trends for 2017 with Travis Walser
Today’s episode is with a new friend of ours, Travis Walser. In the church world you may have heard of people being Reformers. Well Travis is actually just a Former. Specifically, he is a former website project manager, a former marketing director. A former worship leader, a former youth pastor, and a former media coordinator. Hw is now a graphic designer for a huge southeastern church, Olive Baptist and a blogger on creative church communication and marketing strategies over on his website traviswalser.com
Before we jump into our time with Travis, can I just take a sec to say thank you to all of you that are downloading this podcast? We are especially thankful for the reviews that we get. If you have a second, you should check out the only 4 Star Review we’ve ever gotten. It’s the only non 5 Star Review. While you’re there, maybe take a second to leave your review and tell folks why our content helps us help more digital communicators tell the best story the Church has to tell.
Speaking of which...
Be sure and check out our Chicago Intensive Workshop, April 25th thatcc.com/conference/chicago.
We’re going to be at Soul City Church with a room full of church communications folks doing what we do best, Helping Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. It’s a one day Intensive Workshop. Our Speakers are
Mark McDonald - Church Brand Strategist, Be Known For Something - Ways to Know Whether Your Church Brand will Succeed. And How to Fix It.
LAUREN MCALLISTER - Social Media Manager, First Baptist Jacksonville - Down the Rabbit Hole - Turning Negative Social Conversations into Positive Ones
Ben Stapley - Creative Arts Pastor, Liquid Church - Processing Church Communication Requests
DANNY DE LOS REYES - Media Pastor, Northplace Church - Creating and sustaining a thriving volunteer culture in your department
We will be broadcasting the entire day via Livestream on thatcc.com brought to by our friends at Tithly, the innovators in church giving. Be sure and check them out at get.tithe.ly. The cost for the Live Stream is $149. You and your entire team can watch and soak in what our speakers will be delivering in the room. If you’re wanting to join us in person, be sure and grab your ticket soon.
What's coming after Chicago?
Nashville Workshop- July 14th at Cross Point Church thatcc.com/conference/nashville
Atlanta Conference- Sept 26 and 27 thatcc.com/conference
Where should we go in 2018? Tweet at us @thatchurchconf and we’ll DM you a discount code to use with either the workshop or the Live Stream.
So be and sure and check all that out today. Speaking of today, our guest is Travis Walser. I’m sure so many of you will identify with the “swiss army knife” of tools that Travis has in his communications toolbox. He’s done a little bit of everything in the church comm world which makes it super easy to talk to him about most anything digital related. He wrote a blog post earlier this year, actually it’s a video which is so appealing to my ADD, he vlogged about Social Media Trends For Churches In 2017. So we spent our time catching up with Travis and talking about the trends to look out for this year. So sit up, don’t relax and get ready to learn from our buddy Travis Walser.
SHOW NOTES
Travis Walser - twitter.com/traviswalser
www.traviswalser.com
www.traviswalser.com/social-media-trends-for-churches-in-2017/
Olive Baptist - twitter.com/olivebaptist
www.olivebaptist.org
Writing a Church Email That Gets Opened with Seth Muse
Today’s episode is with our buddy Seth Muse. Seth Muse serves as the Social Media and Web Associate at The Heights Church in Richardson, TX. He blogs about practical church leadership and hosts The Seminary of Hard Knocks podcast. Today he’ll discuss Writing a Church Email That Gets Opened.
Before we jump into our time with Seth, can I just take a sec to say thank you to all of you that are downloading this podcast? We are truly blown away by the growth the last couple of months. Funny how when we put out a consistent podcast, we see growth. There’s a sermon illustration in there somewhere. Could y’all do us a favor though and leave us a rating and some comments on our iTunes page. It’s no secret that it helps to drive more listeners to our content and help us help more digital communicators in Church.
Speaking of which...
Be sure and check out our Chicago Intensive Workshop, April 25th https://thatcc.com/conference/chicago, especially if you like today’s guest, as Ben is one of our trainers.
We’re going to be at Soul City Church with a room full of church communications folks doing what we do best, Helping Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. It’s a one day Intensive Workshop. Our Speakers are
Mark McDonald - Church Brand Strategist, Be Known For Something - Ways to Know Whether Your Church Brand will Succeed. And How to Fix It.
LAUREN MCALLISTER - Social Media Manager, First Baptist Jacksonville - Down the Rabbit Hole - Turning Negative Social Conversations into Positive Ones
Ben Stapley - Creative Arts Pastor, Liquid Church - Processing Church Communication Requests
DANNY DE LOS REYES - Media Pastor, Northplace Church - Creating and sustaining a thriving volunteer culture in your department
We will be broadcasting the entire day via Livestream on thatcc.com brought to by our friends at Tithly, the innovators in church giving. Be sure and check them out at get.tithe.ly. The cost for the Live Stream is $149. You and your entire team can watch and soak in what our speakers will be delivering in the room. If you’re wanting to join us in person, be sure and grab your ticket before next Wednesday. Prices go up $50 on March 1st.
What's coming after Chicago?
Nashville Workshop- July 14th at Cross Point Church thatcc.com/conference/nashville
Atlanta Conference- Sept 26 and 27 thatcc.com/conference
Where should we go in 2018? Tweet at us @thatchurchconf and we’ll DM you a discount code to use with either the workshop or the Live Stream.
Well, again our guest today is Seth Muse. He has a checklist for all us to not only write better emails to use in our church marketing strategy, but also how to have more of them get opened and read. We have a link to his blog post with step by step directions on our show notes for the podcast. We know you’re going to love learning from Seth. If you want to hear more from him, be sure and check out his podcast, the Seminary of Hard Knocks. So...sit up, don’t relax and pay close attention to our friend, Seth Muse.
SHOW NOTES
Seth Muse
www.sethmuse.com
twitter.com/TheSethMuse
Seminary of Hard Knocks
itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-seminary-of-hard-knocks-podcast-with-seth-muse/id1127886760?mt=2
Writing a Church Email That Gets Opened [Checklist]
www.sethmuse.com/writing-church-email-checklist/
Dave Shrein
twitter.com/daveshrein
Leading a Creative Team with Ben Stapley
Today’s episode if with our Ben Stapley. Ben is the Creative Arts Pastor at Liquid Church. Liquid in located in New Jersey with 6 campus’. Ben is responsible for the weekend service, worship experience, video creation, and church online. Today he’ll discuss how to lead a Creative Team even if you’re not a creative.
Be sure and check out our Chicago Intensive Workshop, April 25th https://thatcc.com/conference/chicago, especially if you like today’s guest, as Ben is one of our trainers.
We’re going to be at Soul City Church with a room full of church communications folks doing what we do best, Helping Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. It’s a one day Intensive Workshop. Our Speakers are
Mark McDonald - Church Brand Strategist, Be Known For Something
LAUREN MCALLISTER - Social Media Manager, First Baptist Jacksonville
Ben Stapley - Creative Arts Pastor, Liquid Church
DANNY DE LOS REYES - Media Pastor, Northplace Church
We will be broadcasting the entire day via Livestream on thatcc.com brought to by our friends at Tithly, the innovators in church giving. Be sure and check them out at get.tithe.ly. The cost for the Live Stream is $149. You and your entire team can watch and soak in what our speakers will be delivering in the room. If you’re wanting to join us in person, be sure and grab your ticket before next Wednesday. Prices go up $50 on March 1st.
What's coming after Chicago?
Nashville Workshop- July 14th at Cross Point Church thatcc.com/conference/nashville
Atlanta Conference- Sept 26 and 27 thatcc.com/conference
Where should we go in 2018? Tweet at us @thatchurchconf and we’ll DM you a discount code to use with either the workshop or the Live Stream.
Well, again our guest today is Ben Stapley. Ben made such a good point in our pre-recording that so many of you go to seminary to learn the Bible and how to teach it or even communicate it. There just isn’t a lot of training on how to lead, much less, lead a group of creatives that are so vital to your Sunday morning being attractive and inviting. So in the interview, Ben walks us through how to do that. How to lead a group of creatives whether you are one or not.
SHOW NOTES
Ben Stapley - twitter.com/benstapley
www.benstapley.info/
Liguid Church - twitter.com/liquidchurch
liquidchurch.com
Blogging & Podcasting for Your Church with Rob Laughter
Show Notes:
Christian leaders creating awesome content on the web: getchurchly.com/blog/3-reasons-pastor-maintain-personal-blog/
twitter.com/RobLaughter
twitter.com/getchurchly
roblaughter.com/
Maximizing Instagram with Jacek Obolewicz
No Excuses to Starting an Online Church with Steve Fogg
Today’s episode if with our friend Steve Fogg. Steve launched a Church Online in Australia that grew to Megachurch size in a country that you wouldn’t think could happen. Him recounting how that happened will be such an encouragement to all of us in the trenches that are trying to grow your online presence.
Before we jump into that conversation, just a reminder to
Be sure and check out our Chicago Workshop, April 25th thatcc.com/conference/chicago
Well, again our guest today is Steve Fogg has over 20 years of hard earned experience in the creative industry as a designer, creative director and design business owner and until recently lead the communications team at Crossway church in Melbourne Australia. Our time with Steve is so great. He covers the timeline of events that led to launching Crossway Church Online. And for those that are hesitant to get a new project started because another church inspired you...man...is Steve gonna hit you right in your pain points.
So, sit up, don’t relax and learn from our conversation with Steve Fogg.
SHOW NOTES
#cmschat Twitter Chat - Thursdays at 9pm EST
Crossway Church - www.crossway.org.au
Life Church - www.life.church
Quote - “What are you waiting for? Just start.” - Nils Smith twitter.com/NilsSmith
@stevefogg
Stevefogg.com
Launch Your Church Online - www.launchyourchurch.online
Creative Volunteer Teams and Blogging with Alec Tod of E91 Church
Today’s episode if with our buddy Alec Tod with E91 Church where he is the Communications Director
We’re on the topic of leading an all volunteer creative team and how to best utilize Blog posts in order to grow your church.
Be sure and check out our Chicago Workshop, January 17th thatcc.com/conference/chicago
We’re going to be at Soul City Church with a room full of church communications folks doing what we do best, Helping Digital Communicators Tell The Best Story The Church Has To Tell. It’s a one day Intensive Workshop. Our Speakers are
Mark McDonald - Church Brand Strategist, Be Known For Something
LAUREN MCALLISTER - Social Media Manager, First Baptist Jacksonville
Ben Stapley - Creative Arts Pastor, Liquid Church
DANNY DE LOS REYES - Media Pastor, Northplace Church
We will be broadcasting the entire day via Livestream on thatcc.com brought to by our friends at Tithly, the innovators in church giving. Be sure and check them out at get.tithe.ly. The cost for the Live Stream is $149. You and your entire team can watch and soak in what our speakers will be delivering in the room.
What's coming next?
Nashville Workshop- July 14th at Cross Point Church thatcc.com/conference/nashville
Atlanta Conference- Sept 26 and 27 thatcc.com/conference
Where should we go in 2018? Tweet at us @thatchurchconf and we’ll DM you a discount code to use with either the workshop or the Live Stream.
Alec Tod may be unique to some and not so much to others. he is a one man show and leans heavily on volunteers for his creative team. He works really close with the guest services team at his church to create a consistent experience at E91... from online off-line. And he works really hard to create quality versus spending too many plates and having that quality suffer.
We actually did this recording back on December 1. So keep that in mind when you hear us talking about Christmas.
So, sit up, don’t relax and learn from our conversation with Alec Tod of E91 Church.
Part 2: Facebook Advertising with Andrew Riis and Richy Hirtle
Part 1: Facebook Advertising with Andrew Riis and Richy Hirtle
Welcome back to our first podcast of 2017.
So excited about all the guests that we’re bringing you to start off this new year. We think the list is pretty impressive...
Seth Muse
Jacek Obolewicz
Rob Laughter
Ben Stapley
Travis Walser
Ryan Bilello
Mark Weaver
Steve Fogg
Alec Tod
and so many more.
Atlanta Conference- Sept 26 and 27 thatcc.com/conference/
San Diego Workshop January 17th thatcc.com/conference/sandiego/
Chicago - April 25th Soul City Church thatcc.com/conference/chicago/
Nashville - July 14th at Cross Point Church thatcc.com/conference/nashville/
This episode is all about Facebook Ad Marketing. What are ads? Should I pay to Boost a Facebook Page post? We’ve brought on Andrew Riis and Richy Hirtle from Reach Out Marketing.
This is the first of a two part podcast, because the content was just so rich and so deep we wanted to make sure our listeners got as much value as possible from these episodes.
www.reachout-marketing.com/
Listen closely near the end of this episode for how your church can have Andrew and Richy create a Facebook Ad for free.
3 Ideas Not To Be Confused: Branding, Marketing & Advertising with Adam McLaughlin
In our interview with Adam he shares the differences between Marketing, Branding, and Advertising and why churches should care, and shows us why it’s important to create an experience that matches your church’s core values.
Youth Ministry Tools with Tom Pounder
In this interview, Tom shares with Van and Justin some of the digital strategies that have worked well for Tom as he coaches other student ministry leaders.
Getting Things Done When You Have Lots of Responsibilities with Justin Allison
He’s a man that wears many hats and handles a lot of responsibilities at a relatively smaller church. In our interview with him he shares some practical organizational tips and gives us a peak into how he gets things done even with everything on his plate.