Category: Community Networking
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6 Great Reasons to Network in Your Community
Networking is when you’re meeting with civic officials, business leaders, community groups, nonprofits, etc. Here are 6 great reasons to go network in your community today. I’m sure I don’t have hard numbers to prove it, but I would argue that there’s a tangible difference in the health of a church plant between planters that…
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How to Write a Church Donor Acknowledgement Letter
When a business or individual donates something, send them a church donor acknowledgement letter for their tax records. A local coffee shop has generously offered to provide coffee and muffins for your workers at a community service event. How exciting! All they want in return is a tax receipt so that they can write off…
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3 Tests to Make Sure You Don’t Choose a Duplicate Church Name
So you’ve done the hard work of praying through a contextual church name for your church plant. Before you finalize it, use these 3 tests to make sure you don’t choose a duplicate church name. This gets a little tricky since there’s several different layers you have to check. I’ll make it easy(er) for you:…
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12 Church Sub-Calendars You Need Today
Church sub-calendars are a great way to keep everything organized at your church. Setting them up is relatively easy and it solves the following 3 problems. Whether or not you’re a program-driven church, there are things that happen in the life of your church each year. Keeping them all straight is important. If you use…
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3 Reasons to Coordinate Benevolence with Your Community
Churches don’t stand alone in their communities. Here are 3 great reasons to coordinate benevolence with other groups in your community. Church benevolence programs often take the form of helping with groceries, paying utility bills, providing clothes, etc. Those are the kinds of needs that other groups are probably already addressing in your community. Avoid…
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Who Should Your Benevolence System Help?
A benevolence system is all about people. But who should it help? At the end of the day, it’s a people process through and through. And there are several categories of people that your benevolence system could help: People from the Community Turns out that this is the least agreed-upon group of people. Not because…
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5 Creative Ideas for Church Missions Teams
You have a sponsoring or supporting church that wants to send a missions team to help you get your new church plant started. Want some good uses of the free labor? Here are 5 creative ideas for church missions teams: These ideas are roughly in chronological order based on when a planter would typically use…
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How to Sync Church Calendars to Save Your Sanity
Ever get sick of having to create the same church event over and over on different platforms? If only you could sync church calendars so you only had to enter each event once! It usually goes like this: you’ve planned an event for your church plant. It’s going to be awesome. You need to get…
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Church Page vs Church Group on Facebook
Have you ever been confused about whether to use a church Page vs church Group on Facebook? No, they aren’t the same thing, and you should probably know the difference before you jump in. The further you get down the path of using either a church Page vs church Group on Facebook, the harder it…