Category: Web

  • 3 Reasons to Create Ministry Reports

    3 Reasons to Create Ministry Reports

    There has been a lot of healthy conversation around the ‘scorecard’ of the church recently. We mostly agree that measuring attendance and offerings is an incomplete scorecard at best. But why would you even want to create ministry reports that measure other things? Nobody becomes a church planter so that they can read or create […]

  • Online Personality Profiles for Church Volunteers

    Online Personality Profiles for Church Volunteers

    Even good leaders need to figure out how to lead volunteers better. One of the ways you can do that is to know your volunteers better. Online personality profiles for church volunteers can help. There are 2 basic approaches to filling volunteer positions at your church plant: 1. Based on the Church’s Need This is […]

  • 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 […]

  • 5 Ways to Use Your Church Plant Target Area Map

    5 Ways to Use Your Church Plant Target Area Map

    Whether you’re planting a church in a community that’s new to you or returning to plant in your home town, you need to be an expert on your community. Here are 5 great ways to use a church plant target area map to help you make a difference in your town. Free Church Plant Target […]

  • 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 – Reftagger Scripture Hyperlinks

      Reftagger automatically tags Bible references on your website and shows readers a preview of the entire verse. I discovered the Reftagger WordPress plugin on one of my planters’ websites almost by accident. I was adding a ‘what we believe’ page to his site. After copying & pasting his content onto the page, I thought […]

  • Church Plant Freebie Friday: Amazon Smile

    Amazon is donating money to non-profit organizations when shoppers register through Amazon Smile. Once the regulars at your church plant register, ½% of all their (qualified) purchases automatically come to your church. Or better yet, get all of your regulars to register for the nonprofit in town that your church partners with. Do it as […]

  • 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 […]

  • Church Plant Freebie Friday – Signup Genius

    Signup Genius is a great FREE tool for organizing your church plant prayer team and/or volunteers around events, projects, etc. Here are a couple of ways you could use it: Church Plant Outreach Events Your launch team is participating in a local community event and you need people to take 1-hour shifts during a 6-hour […]