Author: Patrick
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Pros and Cons of a WordPress Church Website
As you plan your church plant website, you’ll have to decide which software to build it with. Consider these pros and cons of a WordPress church website. I’ve helped scores of church planters get started on their websites. The most popular site building software has been WordPress. A WordPress Church Website Has Advantages …including: Low…
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Free Community Mapping Tools, Part 3: Carrier Route Maps
Third in a series of posts about community mapping tools, here’s another free tool to help you learn your community: postal carrier route maps. One of the challenges of getting the word out in your community is planning time & resources to let every household know about the grand opening of your worship gatherings. Knowing…
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Free Community Mapping Tools Part 2: School Boundary Maps
Falling in love with your community can be easy; doing the hard work of really getting to know it can take more effort. Here’s another free tool to help you learn your community: school boundary maps. One of the challenges of demographics research is cutting through the averages. Your report says that the average income…
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2 Important Ways Church Plant Staff Fundraising is Different
If you’re requiring them to raise their own support, there are a couple of ways church plant staff fundraising will be different. It’s common for overseas missionaries to raise funds to cover their own in-the-field expenses. Full-time, vocational church planters should follow that example for their church plant (you’re a missionary to your community, right?).…
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How to Give Your Church Plant Staff Fundraising Requirements
Should you give your church plant staff fundraising requirements? You could have a bigger staff if they could offset some or all of their own salaries. Every full-time, vocational church planter should raise funds for their plant. It’s as least as much for the vision casting practice as for the resources. But you can certainly…
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3 Online Ideas for Connecting in Your Community
Planting a church is about building relationships, and many friendships start online these days. Here are 3 online ideas for connecting in your community. So many of us are living in ever-growing metros and densely-populated areas, and yet we seem to have never felt so isolated and alone. Use all the tools at your disposal…
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Things You Need to Know Before Offering Gluten-Free Communion
Awareness of food allergies and dietary restrictions have been on the rise. With all the clamor about gluten-free this and gluten-free that, here are some things you need to know if you’re going to offer gluten-free communion. I went to the grand opening of a church plant in San Francisco years ago. I’d probably heard…
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Could this Free App Make Recording Church Offerings Easier?
Recording church offerings before it all goes to the bank can be complicated for portable churches. Here are a couple of ideas to make the job easier and more secure for your Offering Counting Team. Portable churches have a special challenge when it comes to recording church offerings. You have to collect the offering, count…
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Use these 4 Free Community Mapping Tools
Use these free community mapping tools to help you do the hard missionary work of learning your community. Taking notes and marking things down on a saved online map will become invaluable as your network, serve and get the word out in your community. Radius Around an Address I am at the Exponential West conference…