Good Friday – What it Means for Church Technology
Guest post by Reagan Lynn Good Friday: The day that evokes more solemn reflection than perhaps any other day of the year. In a world of endless activity and mounting turmoil, our thoughts are silenced as our attention becomes fixed on one man: Jesus, the Son of God. The message of Christ’s death and resurrection has spread and endured the tests of time and persecution over the past two thousand years. Our world today is bigger...
SEO Tips For Your Ministry
When someone moves into a new community, they almost always have a long list of tasks to complete before they truly feel at home. From connecting their utilities to setting up their cable, the moving checklist can feel never ending. And for some families and individuals, finding a new place of worship is another item to add to their moving list. With this in mind, how would a new family that just moved into your community discover...
Church Tech Terms Simplified: Part 3
Welcome to the third installment of our church tech terms series. For even more terms, be sure to check out part 1 and part 2. Really Simply Syndication (RSS) RSS is a popular way of making dynamic content, such as blog posts, accessible to a variety of readers (an RSS reader is a special app or website that reads and compiles the RSS content). RSS content is written in the XML language and must be coded properly to allow the...
How to Speak to Millennials about Giving: 3 Easy Steps
As a church leader, the idea of what the Millennial Generation can bring to your ministry may seem out of your comfort zone, or you may be embracing everything that these church goers have to offer. While the specific date range varies depending on the source, the Millennial Generation is considered to consist of people born in the early 1980s through the early 2000s. This social media savvy, digitally-connected group of individuals...
4 Website Essentials For Your Ministry
If your ministry does not currently have a website, you should seriously consider creating one for all the reasons outlined here. If this is your church’s first website design, you’ll want to make sure 1.0 is simple but has the essential elements present. Here are 4 content essentials you’ll want to include in your initial ministry site: About Us Section with a Mission Statement The About Us section is an essential ingredient for any...
Mobile Website vs. Mobile Responsive
Just a few years ago, mobile was the future of websites and web traffic. That future is now. According to Cisco, in 2014, mobile traffic was up 69% from 2013 and the mobile data accessed in 2014 was 30 times the amount of total Internet traffic in the year 2000. On top of that, 497 million new mobile devices were added in 2014. All that to say, mobile is a big deal whether you are ready for it or not. One of the ways to get...
