Avoiding church calendar overload. At Church by the Bridge we’ve started planning the calendar of events for next year (yep, in August!).
And as with most churches, there are a lot of events – all of them worth going to! For example: Prayer meetings,Carols under the Bridge,Annual Vestry Meeting,Women’s events,Anglicare Winter Appeal,Weekend Away,Connect Groups,PowerPoint training,Worship leader training,and many more! As we prepare the calendar, three considerations come to mind: We want to promote the events, without making church members feel overwhelmed by all that’s happening or obligated to come to everything,There are some events that we’d really like people to prioritise, while others are good, but less essential, andSome events are relevant to everyone (e.g. church weekend away), while other events are relevant to smaller groups (e.g. women’s event, or newcomers dinners).
Step 1. Can you think of any other useful communication channels? Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. What do you think about this strategy? All Font Tester - Casting Your Net. WPBeginner - Beginner's Guide for WordPress.
Center for Church Communication. Church Invitation - Christian Ecards - Church Ecards & Evites. MediaBLEEP. Graphic Resources. West Ridge Church: Communication Request. Email Marketing and Email List Manager. How to Write Church Announcements. Regardless of the size, worship style or technology use of your church, writing announcements is a vital communication function. And because department heads or ministry leaders tend to either give you too much or not enough information to promote their event, writing announcements is a chronically challenging task. People typically try to make announcements sound as exciting as possible by embellishing it with as many adjectives and adverbs as they can. I did. The resulting copy usually ends up being a difficult to navigate set of churchy dribble. Here’s an example: If you are married or planning to get married the Renewed Marriage Seminar is for you and your spouse.
Compounded with the rest of the churchy dribble in the bulletin, it all becomes noise that collectively scream “ ” I am not a gifted writer. Renewed Marriage Seminar // Saturday, March 9, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. // Fellowship Hall // Pastor John and Jane Smith are leading the seminar. Some key thoughts behind this format: 15 ways for churches to use Twitter. Yesterday I came across "17 ways to use Twitter - a Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business owners".
The article is a good read for churches too, but I thought I'd add to the discussion with some more ideas for using Twitter for ministry. Here's 15, in no particular order, that I've sent out from my church's account...How is your church using Twitter? This afternoon I came across “17 ways to use Twitter – a Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business owners” (thanks @pollystreet). The article is a good read for churches too, but I thought I’d add to the discussion with some more ideas for using Twitter for ministry. Here’s 15, in no particular order, that I’ve sent out from my church’s account – @cbtbkirribilli. Tweet about upcoming church activities (e.g. Email Marketing Services - iContact. 10 church welcome packs. I’ve been brainstorming ideas for new welcome packs at Church by the Bridge (it’s been a while since we’ve had them).
Below are 10 examples I’ve discovered – click on the images to enlarge, or ‘see more’ for other images of the packs. Seen any other good examples? What does your church provide? 1. Rock of KC (see more) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.