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The full story, process, and strategy coming soon… in the meantime, check out the all-new parkcommunitychurch.org.

My friend Matt discovered it, Kem blogged about it, and for the next week I’m going to give it a shot.
Imagine treating all of your email replies like a text message… short, brief, concise.
How much easier would life be? Avoid the fluff and get to the core of what you’re trying to say.
I think I’m [...]

Drew has a passion to help churches use technology to do outreach, build community and advance the Gospel.
2,600 churches use Monk Development technology.

I’ll post Drew’s notes on this when I get them, they will be more accurate than mine!
Are church websites effective tools for outreach and evangelism?

John 17:18… as you have sent them [...]

John Dyer lives in Irving, TX with his beautiful wife and awesome new son. He works at Dallas Seminary as the director of web development (meaning “main code guy”) where he also earned a theology degree. He is actively involved in several open source web projects, builds ministry resources such as www.bestcommentaries.com, and blogs about technology [...]

Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and is co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an internet strategy and development company. Drew often speaks at conferences about how churches can use the internet, his blog is recognized as one of the Top Church Blogs, he wrote a chapter in Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology [...]

The Great Commission.
At the end of the day, no matter what capacity you serve in the Church or in ministry, that is why we do what we do.
The “world” as we know it has changed.
We no longer need to go to the world to reach the world.
Well, of course we still need people “going” [...]

I have unsubscribed myself from a lot of email lists lately. With things like blogs and Twitter keeping me up-to-date, who needs an archaic email?
Which made me look at Park and how much email we generate.
When I first came on staff, Park was sending a ridiculous amount of email. Like, you would not believe. Some [...]

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about our “Communications Revolution” at Park.
If you are a newer reader, I’ve been blogging about how we’ve changed the way we communicate at Park: using texting, updating our logo, and moving to doing a monthly program instead of a weekly.
Today I want to talk to you about how [...]

One of the first things I was surprised to find out about Park when I came on staff almost two years ago now is that they send out a daily devotional email called 8 Minutes with God.
And not some canned “year through the Bible” or “Our Daily Bread”-type emails, but one that was written by [...]

So for Ryan Hall’s guest appearance at Park we tried something out… Facebook advertising.
One thing to remember… context is everything. Facebook advertising fits our context.
We did an ad and targeted it to people in Chicago ages 22-35 (our main deomgraphic) that had running, jogging or Marathons listed in their interests… that gave us a pool [...]

So in all humility… I thought it was pretty funny that I found out via a friend on Twitter that Park’s  website made Church Relevance’s Top 90 Church Websites list today.
It’s pretty funny given that I used their list as inspiration as we were dreaming of what Park’s new site should look like. If you [...]