My New ‘Free Stuff’ Category
The past two weeks I’ve been just delighted to be able to offer various coupons for great free resources, so I’m now starting the Free Stuff category here at CCP.
Bookmark that category and come back … I’m hoping more and more people will offer great free stuff that I can giveaway here.
By the way … if you’re a content creator of (most) any resource a church, ministry or pastoral staff can use, send me an email with your free offer. This would include, but not necessarily limited to, things like videos, worship backgrounds, photos, etc.
Catalyst ‘Reverb’ 2007 in Review
I’m still processing everything I heard and saw at Catalyst 2007 … but Church Marketing Sucks has a great post linking to notes from the main sessions and more.
Here are a couple of quick notes, or just my thoughts a week or so later:
- Patrick Lencioni’s Three Signs of Job Misery — Anonymity, Irrelevance and Immeasurement — was especially relevant to me … and I think it has great relevance for church volunteers and how to make them see how vital they are to your church’s ministry. Plus, he’s absolutely hilarious.
- Andy Stanley’s talk about how systems create behaviors was worth the entire conference. We’re still talking about it.
- Craig Groeschel’s session on Practical Atheism personally impacted me the most. It is so easy to talk the talk and not walk the walk. I needed this one … and if you feel crusted over in ministry like I have, you should buy the CD, listen to it and then repent as I did.
- Francis Chan and Erwin McManus speak the language and demonstrate the passion of the next generation of young leaders. Although I enjoyed them both, what they had to say resonated most deeply with the two guys in our groups who are both in their 20’s.
- Social justice seemed to be an underlying theme of most of the speakers and throughout the conference.
- Steve Fee (MySpace and Official Site) and the rest of the worship leaders and band were, quite frankly, uh … awesome. At one point during a set, they were having so much fun in worship and so into it that I think the roof rattled. A truly incredible worship experience.
- And I thoroughly enjoyed bumping into a number of old friends from Midwestern and other places of service. That was an unexpected and pleasant surprise!
Free Church Communications Forms Bundle from Granger’s WiredChurches.com
For her session at MinistryCOM, Kem Meyer offered a free coupon to download their awesome church communications bundle to attendees. I’ve wanted this package for a long time and although the $16 price tag is the deal of a lifetime, I hadn’t purchased it.
So I emailed her and Jami Ruth, their communications manager, and they’ve graciously offered a coupon code for CCP readers.
Click this link to get your free church communications forms bundle
To get the free download, enter this coupon code: CHURCHCOMMPRO
[Be sure to enter this code into the Coupon Code NOT the Gift Certificate box.]
The coupon is only valid on the Communications Bundle and expires 12/31/07.
Who’s Going to Catalyst?
Tomorrow, four of us (including Ray Griffin) from our church leave to go to Catalyst Conference in Atlanta.
Who’s going with us?
I know Chris Forbes is going too. Who else?
If you’re a regular reader or stop by here every now and then, send me an email and maybe we could meet up in person at Catalyst. Or leave a comment on this post and I’ll try to get back to you.
Free Church Communications Resources
I just added a page here that will be a one-stop hub for resource downloads for church communications here.
Right now, this page includes these free resources:
- Church Communications Stylebooks
- Job Descriptions
- 30 Free WordPress Themes
- Free Worship Backgrounds
Send me your resources to share here with other churches!
Click here for the Church Communications Download Page!
Examples of a Church Communications Stylebook, Request Form
After a session I moderated at MinistryCOM on web design, Kristie Melvin, director of communications at Providence Baptist Church sent me some great resources for churches ….
Her email included samples of their:
- Communications Services Values and Standards
- Project Request Form
- Providence Text Standards
Thanks, Kristie!
By the way … if you would like to share your resources and documents, like these here, please send me an email attachment.
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