As we prepare to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, I want to look at three symbols of Easter. The cross, the grave clothes and the tomb. John 20:1-8 (NIV)1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been…
Let’s start our Palm Sunday weekend by reading about the triumphal entry. Matthew 21:1-11 (NIV)1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her…
We are tracking the progress of our church consultant website to help shed some insight on the process of building a website for a church or ministry and trying to get that website to show up on page 1 of a Google search. We put together a very simple beginning website at churchconsultant.org using WordPress….
Hopefully at this point you have a domain name, you have a web host, and you have WordPress installed. If all that is true then you should have a site that looks something like our new church consultant website below: If you have never worked with WordPress before I want to encourage you to watch…
I want to focus in on the importance of a domain name but before we do that we need to have a discussion about website hosting and platforms. I recommend WordPress for the website platform and HostGator for the hosting. WordPress You want to make sure you are using the WordPress.org platform which is for…
I have been wanting to write a series of articles about websites. As I was thinking of different ways to make it interesting I landed on the idea of creating a website for a specific purpose and then tracking its progress in the articles. With this is mind I am going to catalog the journey…
This is the ninth and last article in a series about church consulting that we are presenting on our Church Encourager platform. In this article we are talking about the importance of a Church Marketing Strategy. Talking about “marketing” and the “church” in the same sentence makes some people uncomfortable. Perhaps they feel like they…
This is the eighth article in a series about church consulting here on Church Encourager. After we have acquired some information about the church and about the surrounding community we try to come up with an effective plan to ‘reach out’. Defining Outreach What do we mean by ‘Outreach’? Outreach is an effort by individuals…
This is the seventh article in a series about church consulting that we are presenting on our Church Encourager platform. In this article we will be looking at the Church Insight Report which is a report generated when your church completes a church health survey and/or assessment. While the report will be different depending on…
This is the sixth article in a series about church consulting that we are presenting on our Church Encourager platform. In this article we are talking about church health surveys and/or assessments. A church health survey/assessment is a helpful tool that will give you information on the overall health of your church. For the most…
This is the fifth article in a series about church consulting that we are presenting on the Church Encourager platform. In this article we will be exploring the information we retrieved in our demographic study and developing a Community Insight Report. Let’s gather some free, easy access information at City Data Guide. Click here to…
This is the fourth in a series of articles on church consulting we are presenting on the Church Encourager platform. We are writing them to give some insight on what the Virtual Church Consulting service looks like. Also, the information will be helpful to churches who are looking for a DIY church consulting approach. After…