Author: Patrick
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How to Look Up Mobile Carriers so Your Church Software Works
Ever notice that your church management software asks for your people’s mobile number and their carrier? Here’s why they do that and how you can look up mobile carriers to get past the roadblock. Has this happened to you? You build your guest followup system in your church management software. It includes emailing or texting […]
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How to Save $530 by NOT Getting a Church Bulk Mail Permit
If you’re sending out direct mail to announce the launch of your weekly services, save $530 and don’t open a church bulk mail permit (but still get all the benefits using this secret). There are two permits required to get the lowest postage rate for your church plant’s mailing: the church bulk mail permit the […]
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How Much Money CAN Church Plant Postal Permits Save You?
In addition to your community service and word of mouth marketing, you’re thinking about sending out direct mail postcards to your community to announce the Grand Opening of your church plant. You could potentially save thousands of dollars in one mailing with church plant postal permits. A 1st class postcard stamp costs 35¢ these days […]
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How to Organize a Church Plant Door Hanger Campaign
It’s Saturday morning and your volunteers have showed up to execute your church plant door hanger campaign. Now what? You’ve already invested the time to design the door hangers as part of a larger campaign. And you’ve paid to have them printed. It would be a shame if the wheels fell off for lack of […]
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5 Ways to Maximize Church Plant Door Hangers
Using church plant door hangers to get the word out about a new church can be effective. If you know how to maximize them. I’ve had multiple planters over the years use church plant door hangers. Some of those planters would tell you that they would absolutely use them again. Others would tell you they […]
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Call Me Back When You’re a Real Church
If you haven’t heard this response yet in your church planting journey, you will: “Call me back when you’re a real church.” Have a plan to address this before you’re hit with it. Oh, they never say it exactly like that. But when you invite someone to get involved in the church plant before you […]
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Do Church Boards Have to Use Robert’s Rules of Order?
A church planter challenged me recently on whether church boards have to use Robert’s Rules of Order to conduct meetings. I started digging around and opened a whole can of worms. His question came from a common place: I haven’t met a church planter yet that likes (understands?) Robert’s Rules. But it also came with […]
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How to Review a Worship Facility Lease (with FREE Worship Facility Lease Checklist)
If you’re on the hunt to rent meeting space for your church, you need to know how to review a worship facility lease. Here’s how: Lease contracts come in all shapes and sizes. Don’t just hope that they’ve included all the important details. Likewise, don’t just hope that they didn’t put any onerous clauses in […]
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Use This 1 Trick to Pick Church Software
All of the choices that available in just about every category can make it confusing when you have to pick church software. This one trick will bring the most clarity and make your decision easier. The church planters I support ask me from time to time which software in a given category is best: church […]