Fair Haven Ministries, a church in Michigan, has found a way to hit the recession head-on. They’ve also spotlighted some key principles any of us can apply to do the same.
Church Marketing.
Should churches worry about marketing? Is the idea of “church marketing” a good thing or a bad thing? What’s your take?
Does your religious affiliation influence your income?
This latest Pew Forum study is interesting, via Church Relevance. Here’s a screen shot of the chart on the site:
Have you seen this? For those of you familiar with the church culture (esp. Southern Baptist), you’ll take away far too many nuggets of revelation from this one. The creator, Beyond Relevance, rants on “biblical marketing principles.” Very interesting. Tip o’ da hat to John. Also, here’s another great blog, Christian Java, for church marketing [...]
This can’t be good. I was reading through my Bible this morning and a scripture made a marketing point that I thought was worthy of another look here. Which means I’ve got too much marketing on the brain, but oh well. Here it goes: Proverbs 28:26 He who trusts in his own heart is a [...]
Excellent weekend of reading – enjoy Healing and Mercy: This is an excellently written story of a high school girl who was raped in 1989 and how she’s coped with it since and managed to find forgiveness and mercy. This happened in my home town when I was in middle school, so it definitely h [...]
Barack Obama is getting in on the religion card aspect of this year’s presidential race. Be sure to click the post and read through Barack’s new brochure for yourself. A few random observations that I haven’t completely made sense of yet, but thought I would share anyway: I am not comfortable questioning anyone’s faith, but [...]
