Protect Your Church Email Addresses From Spam

reCAPTCHA is a neat tool that protects your email addresses online from the spiders that crawl the web looking to include you in their Spam emails.

Here’s a description:

A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.

And here’s an example of how it works using my email address:

cory…@gmail.com

August 31, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing

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LifeChurch’s Craig Groeschel Reads Spurgeon

I figure that headline might get a couple more people to read the great question and answer with LifeChurch.tv’s Senior Pastor Craig Groeschel that Kent has posted today.

I love this quote by Groeschel:

It’s not about you! It’s not about marketing. It’s not about buildings. It’s not about sermon series. It’s not about the music, the lights, or the environment.

IT IS ONLY… ALWAYS… ABOUT JESUS!

He also mentions Blue Ocean Strategy as a resource with one of the biggest impact on him … I already own the book, just haven’t cracked the cover yet … great Labor Day reading now!

August 31, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing

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Get Expert Church Consulting from Church Relevance’s Kent Shaffer

Recently, Chris Forbes and I had the opportunity to have lunch with Church Relevance’s Kent Shaffer. He spent some good time with us talking everything church marketing. And I think all three of us thoroughly enjoyed the meeting.

Anyway, I got to hear Kent’s heart and passion for ministry. He seems like (and in fact, is) a humble, caring, godly guy.

Today, he just formally announced his church consulting services … he’s offer a variety of options that your church might be able to use and tap into Kent’s experience and knowledge.

Disclaimer: He didn’t hit me up about posting this. I’m a CR feedreader and just wanted to tell others about his work!

August 22, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing

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See What Churches Will Be Represented at MinistryCOM

Terrell just posted a list of the churches that will be represented at this year’s MinistryCOM in Nashville.

It’s pretty neat to look through that list and see who all will be coming.

August 14, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing

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Nominate An Innovative Church In Your Area

Tony Morgan is asking for nominations for his second annual America’s Most Innovative Churches list.

He’s asking also: What makes a church innovative?  One of his desires is to find churches that aren’t on a lot of people’s “radars” right now. And the ones that come to mind for me are church plants. They’re young but extremely innovative as they seek to be reach their community for Christ.

So go nominate an innovative church in your area here.

August 11, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing

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Guidelines for Delivering Church Announcements Effectively

Announcements, for a congregation, can be either the most interesting part of service or the most painful. I’ve seen the highs and lows: highly produced at Granger and strikingly pitiful at some local churches. But there doesn’t have to be a high production value for announcements to be valuable. What you need is a method, and someone who will do announcements well. Hopefully some of these guidelines will help you get started on your way to delivering announcements effectively.

First of all, you want to recognize what you have with each announcement. There are really three parts to any announcement: Read more

August 7, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing

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