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Alrighty, here’s the fourth and final post in a series of posts inspired by REWORK.
If you haven’t been convinced to get a copy by now, you are just plan ignorant.
So since I’m a ‘church communications guy’ I thought I’d devote my last post some thoughts on REWORK-ing Church Communications.
Stop Being a Communicator, Start Being a [...]

I’m nearing the 10-year mark of being a church employee. That practically makes me a veteran. Ten years, four churches and millions of cups of Starbucks later [I’m convinced that’s the drug of choice for church workers] I’ve had a first hand-look at how the church works [by work I mean how it functions day-to-day [...]

This is Part 2 of 4 in a series of posts reviewing and sharing ideas gleaned from REWORK.
Disclaimer: This post isn’t about the work of the Church [proclaiming the Gospel, being a biblical community, loving God, loving others, etc], this post is solely about HOW the church works.
Dear Church Leader,
The Church is a business… get [...]

I started out wanting to write a short review of REWORK, but quickly discovered that wasn’t possible… so this will be the first in a series of four posts inspired by REWORK.
I’ll sum up all of my thoughts in one, brief statement:
REWORK should be required reading for any next generation church leader.
I’ll explain why [...]

Seth Godin recently challenged the idea of big events and said,
“If you’re going to have an event, better make it big. Or even bigger than that. It needs to be awe-inspiring, frightening, on deadline and worth losing sleep over.”
That’s quite a charge.
I have to admit, as  “professional conferencegoer,” I’ve grown a little bit weary at [...]

I used to suck at church communications. It’s true.
So when I first heard about Church Marketing Sucks I wasn’t sure what to think.
As a guy who was new to church communications I felt like I had discovered a gold mine of ideas, thoughts, and resources to help me out on my journey of helping my [...]

After a number of requests about Park’s Twitter policy, I decided to share it with the rest of you: we don’t have one.
I’m not a huge fan of policies. They take too long to write out and shouldn’t really be an issue as long as you are managing what you are doing well.
That being said, [...]

A welcome distraction in my day is emails I receive from many of you about different things we do at Park. I’ve decided to share the emails and my responses with all of you since I’m sure it could serve you and your churches, as well as answer some questions you are asking!
Here goes…
From Jenni [...]

Let’s be honest, most church staff dread missions week. [ Not to diss the very important, vital work of missions… it’s important… but missions week can be kind of a drag.]
Having grown up in a church that had a map of the world and pushpins to show every missionary we supported, missions was always a [...]

Texting has certainly changed the way we communicate. I’m notorious for not answering my cell phone. One of my friends’ voicemail  says, “Don’t leave me a message I don’t check them, send me a text.”
I think the only person I talk to on the phone for longer than 10 minutes is my mom. And that’s [...]

I’m going to old school here for a minute.
Remember rabbit ears?
No, not the ones your friend in high school or your Uncle Joe gave to people in pictures, but the rabbit ears that you used to have to use to get reception on your TV?
Yeah, it’s been awhile since most of us have had to [...]

I think all too often we see what other people [or in the instance of most of my readers, churches] do and think if we do what they did, it will work for us.
I don’t think anything could be further from the truth.
One of the cruelest games we can find ourselves in is the Comparison [...]