Category: Design
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3 Clever Church Plant Sign Strategies
Good signage inside your building and on the street can make or break a guest’s experience. Here are 3 simple church plant sign strategies that will help everyone feel welcome: Buy More …than you think you’re going to need. Remember the last time you traveled to or through an airport you’d never been to before? […]
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How to Design Church Plant Signs
Street signs are always in the top 3 answers when I ask planters, “What do people say when you ask how the heard about your church?” But there’s an effective way and a not-so-effective way to design church plant signs. Have you ever been driving and seen one of those homemade garage sale signs, the […]
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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 […]
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Name Your Church Plant
Part 3 in the 7-part series, Open a Church Checking Account What to Name Your Church Plant Now that you’ve done the hard work to contextualize your church, it’s time to brainstorm a list of names that communicate your mission, values, personality, etc… to your community. The church name plays a significant role in shaping […]
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Don’t Let Your Buddy Do Your Church Plant Website
Publishing your church plant website has become an important part of the planting process here in the States. Everyone is going to check out who you are and what you’re about through your website, and usually very early in their relationship with you. Having a website establishes you in the community, helps you communicate, and […]
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Electronic Connection Card for Your Church Plant
Call it a Connection Card or a Communication Card or whatever, but getting contact information from a visitor is the weak link in your ability to follow up and get them connected. For years churches have been using paper versions. More recently, some have begun using kiosks & computers in the lobby. Why not add […]
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FREE Church Plant Resource Friday: Prezi & Projeqt
Storytelling is enjoying a resurgence in the Church in the US these days. There are some great software solutions out there that are aiding & abetting this movement. Not necessarily designed with churches in mind, these presentation/storytelling tools are still great ways to communicate the Most Important Story ever: Prezi [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcCr8Cmroxw] Projeqt [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/15333659 […]