Church Planting Tactics

Category: FREE Resources

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday: Sitegeist

    Free Demographics App Want the quick & dirty lowdown on the community where you’re church planting? Sitegeist is the free app for your mobile device that gives you quick insight into: People Housing Fun Weather History Available now in the App Store and Google Play. It’s another free & easy way to learn about your…

  • Electronic Connection Card for Your Church Plant

    Call it a Connection Card or a Communication Card or whatever, but getting contact information from a visitor is the weak link in your ability to follow up and get them connected. For years churches have been using paper versions. More recently, some have begun using kiosks & computers in the lobby. Why not add…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday: Google Stuff

    For years I’ve been setting up my church planters with Google Apps for their email service. It’s free for any organization [as of Dec 2012, Google no longer offers a free option], and along with 10 email addresses, you get the standard Gmail suite: docs (now called “drive”), calendar, shared contacts, etc…  I usually add…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday – Soft Demographics Reports

      Hard demographics include the typical measures: age, race, income, etc. Soft demographics are a little fuzzier and include things like attitudes, preferences, and tendencies. Experian, whom you may know as one of the big three credit bureaus, has been amassing data of both types for years that gives them (and now you) insight into…

  • Are You Listening?

    There is a lot of chatter on social media – are you listening for mentions of your church plant? What’s the Problem? Social media is designed to be just that: social. Too many churches use it as just another media outlet to push communication in one direction. It’s OK to get information out there, but…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday – WiseStamp

      You’re hampering your own church plant communications. That is, if you haven’t taken care to develop an email signature that gives people easy ways to interact with you. Few things vex me more than having an important email conversation going that needs to turn in to a phone call, but the other party hasn’t…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday – ToneCheck

      Ever typed up an email when you were really emotionally charged about the subject and immediately regretted pressing the ‘send’ button? Ever send what you thought was a mild-mannered email that was completely misconstrued by the recipient? Enter ToneCheck These guys have written code that detects your tone of voice and throws a red…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday – Online Church Platform

      Well, almost FREE Church Plant Resource Friday… this freebee launches Jan 9, 2012. Another great free resource from our friends at LifeChurch, this latest will help you create online events “focused on relationships and prayer.” Sign up for updates and more information:

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday – DropBox.com

      I absolutely live by this free app: Why Do I Need File Syncing? Dropbox gives you 2 major benefits: accessing the same files from any device and keeping those files backed up. Syncing I can get to the same original source files from my Mac at the office, my Android phone on the road,…