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5 Tips For A Great Church Website

Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by .

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Key components to a great church website: 1. Less is more – don’t bombard me with every ministry on the homepage, everyone doesn’t need to know about your underwater basket-weaving class! 2. Don’t make me scroll – long web pages are lame.  I don’t want to scroll forever into a bottomless web pit, remember i [...]

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10 Reasons Your Church Should Be On Facebook

Posted on 16. Aug, 2009 by .

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Your church should be on facebook. Plain and simple. Just in 2009 facebook has grown 276% in users aging from 35-54 (reported here) so you can’t ignore this communication tool. 1. Effective Communication – People are already using it. One challenge that we constantly face in ministry is the competition for people’s attention.  I think [...]

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Merging Social Media and Ministry

Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by .

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I have been having a ton of conversations about social media in recent weeks and I recently listened to a webinar that got me thinking further about our need to merge social media and ministry. Conference calls, staff discussions, breakfast meetings, have all caused me to finally get some of my thoughts down in a blog post. [...]

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Monvee – Custom Designed Spiritual Growth

Monvee – Custom Designed Spiritual Growth

Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by .

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John Ortberg says, “Disciples of Jesus cannot be mass produced – they have to be hand crafted.”  As church leaders we often take personal responsibility for mass producing disciples from our congregations.  The challenge is that discipleship requires an individual to take personal responsibility for their development and a leader to provide individual attention, accountability [...]

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Online Bible For Kids?

Posted on 27. Oct, 2008 by .

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The team over at Lifechurch.tv has already put out a social media Bible study tool called YouVersion. It has a ton of great features and if you read the Bible on the web I would encourage you to check it out. Now they are trying to figure out how to proceed with how to help [...]

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Bible for Blackberry

Posted on 10. Oct, 2008 by .

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YouVersion just released a new Bible application for Blackberry users. It has some pretty cool features including a daily reading plan for people that are on the go. Here is the scoop right from their blog: In April we released YouVersion Mobile…in July we launched the iPhone Bible App…and today we’re excited to announce a [...]

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Christian Kids Programming – Jelly Telly

Posted on 08. Sep, 2008 by .

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The average American kid watches 5 hours of media per day! That amazes me. We limit the amount of TV our kids watch daily and I remember having similar limitations while I was growing up. The interesting part about all this is that while kids are watching more and more TV or media, less and [...]

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New CCV Website Design

Posted on 01. Aug, 2008 by .

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With the help and guidance of True Blue Media we recently completed a full redesign of our church website. This is the first of a 3 phase design layout. There is more to come as we put together some new stuff for Valley Kids and Student Ministries. Keep checking back for new updates!

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Billy Graham on Evil, Poverty, and Death

Posted on 01. Aug, 2008 by .

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Billy Graham spoke at the TED conference in 1998. The speech below is based upon three issues David wrote about in the Psalms. Graham challenged those that attended to spend more time examining themselves and exploring these issues.

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