Church Planting Tactics

Category: Social Media

  • Using Facebook Dark Posts for Church

    Using Facebook Dark Posts for Church

    Using Facebook dark posts for church planting is almost as mysterious as it sounds. But it can be a great way to connect with people and get the word out about your church plant. You don’t have to be an online ninja to figure it out. Let me break it down: How to Pay Facebook […]

  • How to Use Facebook for Church Planting

    How to Use Facebook for Church Planting

    I started supporting church planters in 2007. At that time, planters were saying, “This new social media thing seems to be catching on; I wonder how I could use Facebook for church planting?” Now it’s a given. With 222 million Facebook users in the US & Canada alone, it’s a communication and connection tool you […]

  • Church PayPal Plugin for WordPress

    Church PayPal Plugin for WordPress

    The following is a guest post by Dave Phillips of Passion 4 Planting, a church plant project manager and coder extraordinaire. Wouldn’t it be great if you could start accepting donations from your church plant website without hiring a programmer? You can! All you need is a WordPress-based website and a plugin that’s connected to […]

  • How to Podcast Church Plant Sermons

    How to Podcast Church Plant Sermons

    Podcasting sermons has always been complicated & confusing for me. And I’m pretty handy with software stuff. There have been a couple of decent but limited tools that have come & gone over recent years, but figuring out how to podcast church plant sermons has been off my radar for a while. Turns out, it […]

  • Church Plant Freebie Friday – YouVersion Live

    I read the review and instructions over on ChurchMag, and I can’t say it better: YouVersion’s Live features give the mobile user a chance to interact with the Bible and your custom content during the service. Launching the Bible app from their phone (iOS, Android, et al), they simply: Choose Live Search for the church […]

  • New Top-Level .church Domain

      New generic top-level domains (gTLD’s) are being released regularly. Are you having trouble finding a domain name for your church plant? If your desired .com and .org are long since taken, here are some new gTLD’s coming: .church .city .center .home .live .online The timing is a little unclear, but a big thanks to […]

  • 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 […]

  • New FaceBook Tool Your Church Should Use This Week

    FaceBook unveiled a new feature – Questions. Sounds simple enough. It allows you to ask a question, send it to your friends, and have them respond back. Similar to online surveys or polls, it’s meant to be social in nature. But you should immediately see the benefit of using it to learn about your community, […]