Category: Demographics & Surveys

  • 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 […]

  • Free Soft Demographic Reports

    Free Soft Demographic Reports

    This is an update to my post about free soft demographic reports from July 2012. Experian, whom you may know as one of the big three credit bureaus, has been amassing both hard & soft demographic data for years that gives them (and now you) insight into people in your area. They’ve carved up American […]

  • 5 Practical Church Plant Marketing Tips

    5 Practical Church Plant Marketing Tips

    There are hundreds of ways to get the word out about your new church. How are you going to decide which to use? Every year  planters ask me for church plant marketing tips. “Is it social media?” or “I heard that direct mail is dead…?” My answer is usually, “It depends.” Mostly on your context. […]

  • Contextualize Your Church

    Part 2 in the 7-part series, Open a Church Checking Account Why Contextualize Your Church? Believe it or not, the effort to contextualize your church is part of the critical path to open a church checking account. And you should do it anyway because the Church should always be renewing itself and adapting to the […]

  • Community Networking for Your Church Plant

    As a church planter, you are a missionary to your community. And part of the work of every missionary is understanding the culture they serve. Community networking is one of the best ways to experience the culture. Demographic reports and community history websites are one of the best places to start, especially if you haven’t […]

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday: Sitegeist

    Free Demographics App Want the quick & dirty lowdown on the community where you’re church planting? Sitegeist is the free app for your mobile device that gives you quick insight into: People Housing Fun Weather History Available now in the App Store and Google Play. It’s another free & easy way to learn about your […]

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday – Soft Demographics Reports

      Hard demographics include the typical measures: age, race, income, etc. Soft demographics are a little fuzzier and include things like attitudes, preferences, and tendencies. Experian, whom you may know as one of the big three credit bureaus, has been amassing data of both types for years that gives them (and now you) insight into […]

  • Demographics that Affect Your Church Plant

    The results of the 2010 Census are finally starting to trickle out. Here are some interesting findings as outlined in a CNN blog post: “America is older and more middle-aged-looking than ever before Young people [are ] choosing to stay single longer and have kids later The Northeast is generally much older than the Southwest. […]