Enough theory. Time to execute.
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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,…
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How to Tell Your Fundraising Story
If you’re in the church plant fundraising season (which is typically heavy at the front end, but continues at least through your second anniversary), you have to do a good job when you tell the story of your plant. You’ll be infinitely more compelling if you tell your fundraising story instead of regurgitating data. The…
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FREE Church Plant Resource Friday – MailChimp.com
So you want an easy way to send classy-looking emails to your Prayer Team, Outside Supporters and/or Launch Team? For years Constant Contact has been the big kid on the block, but my new favorite is MailChimp. Why Do I Need a Newsletter Service? You need one for several reasons, and they all come back…
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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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