Author: Patrick
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Church Planting – What Neil Cole Would Have Done Differently
Neil Cole is a thought leader and practitioner in the organic/missional/house church movement (what are we calling it this month?). In his post Lessons Learned in the Fields, he recaps what he would do differently if he were planting again today. It’s an adaption of his own book, Organic Church. Here are the nuggets I […]
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FREE Church Plant Resource Friday: Prezi & Projeqt
Storytelling is enjoying a resurgence in the Church in the US these days. There are some great software solutions out there that are aiding & abetting this movement. Not necessarily designed with churches in mind, these presentation/storytelling tools are still great ways to communicate the Most Important Story ever: Prezi [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcCr8Cmroxw] Projeqt [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/15333659 […]
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Free Church Plant Resource Friday: CreationSwap
CreationSwap.com “church media shared or sold by thousands of Christian artists. Search photos, logos, church bulletins, sermon graphics and more. Download our media or have it customized, printed and shipped to you, or print your own.”
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Free Church Plant Resource Friday: Podcasting Your Sermons
If you don’t pay big bucks for one of those church websites that has a turnkey podcast solution, you can do it yourself for free. If you know how. Short of having a techno-geek on your launch team, here is a 4-part blog series on just how to get your podcasting done: Podcasting Sermons part […]
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Is My Church Plant Name Already Taken?
Since I started helping churches with incorporation paperwork, I have done due diligence in making sure that their church plant name wasn’t already taken. No one wants to show up at the Secretary of State’s office and be told, “Sorry, we’ve already got one of those. Pick a different name.” What’s the Problem? You could […]
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Why Have Great Hospitality at Your Church Plant?
Love the following post by Will Mancini, one of my favorite authors. He has been conducting the ‘Guest Perspective Evaluation’ at churches all over for the last 10 years and has come up with 10 Mind Blowing Facts to Fuel Your Hospitality Ministry. Here are a few that struck home with me: You have more […]
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A Great Way to Torpedo Your Church Plant
Looking for an easy way to sabotage your new church plant? Let your guard down and play loose with the church’s finances and/or yours. Steve Smith offers us some great financial DON’TS on Gary Rohrmayer’s Converge USA blog. Here are a few that caught my eye: Not carrying liability insurance Counting money by yourself – […]
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FREE Church Plant Resource: Stock Images
Whether you’re designing a website or print piece, a good graphic really is worth a 1,000 words. What’s the Problem? One of the most difficult things about design to be finding images to use. So where do you go? You could go to Google Images and illegally pirate other people’s images, but that’s probably not […]
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FREE Church Plant Resource: Examen.Me discipleship tool
Tap into the inner-technophile in your launch team and encourage them to use Examen.Me to deepen their walk with God. The account is free and easy to use. How would you use this as part of your overall discipleship strategy?