By Daniel Wheeler, DSCE Senior Hospitality Account Manager LG Business Solutions Houses of worship have long embraced technology to help deliver their messages to congregants, from audio amplification systems and projectors to overflow room TVs and, more recently,...
Leadership
Getting Started with Church Project Management
Looking for ways to help things run smoothly in your ministry? Project management may help
Stop Wasting Money
Seriously, stop. If you are not seeking and following energy saving guidelines, you are spending money you do not have to. Money spent on facilities, when not necessary, take away dollars available for your ministerial mission. The logical response to this opening is...
Burnout Self-Care for the Church Communicator (Easter & Beyond)
At Easter, or during any overwhelming church season, a church communicator (or Pastor) needs to be mindful of burnout self-care. Here are some self-care strategies so you can protect yourself from burnout: Prepare with Adequate Expectations: Church communicators often...
Embracing the Shepherd’s Mantle: The Spiritual Call for Church Security
In our faith communities, discussions often skirt around the grittier realities that thread through our society. We don’t like to talk about domestic violence, child sexual abuse, drug addiction, or financial fraud, but those and other crimes are happening in our...
Creating Your Budget for 2024
While the idea of budgeting and advance planning may not be the most exciting thing on a church tech’s to-do list, it can definitely be one of the most impactful. Not all churches’ fiscal year aligns with the calendar year, but for those that do, this is the ideal...
Easter Service Planning Tips
These 4 tips may relieve some frustration for both the creatives and the production-minded people on your team
Hold on to First-time Guests (7 Retention Tips)
Welcoming first-time guests to your church, and encouraging them to return, involves thoughtful planning and intentional actions. Here are seven practical steps to help ensure that first-time guests become long-term members of your church community: 1. Warm and...
5 Quick Wins that Save your Church Money in the Long Run
Churches are largely supported financially by the members that belong to their communities, and the money members can give — whether it’s put in a collection basket at service or deducted automatically from a checking account — is contingent on a lot of factors. That...
5 Critical Questions To Ask Before You Start A School
Has your church ever thought of starting a school? I have worked with dozens of churches that at some point thought they would best serve their local community by starting a school...usually in their existing church facilities. While this can be exciting, there are...
Taking Care Of Business With Worship Tech
Avoiding unnecessary bumps in the road through careful planning, maintenance and teamwork can increase consistency between services.
Tools and Methods for Managing Your Church’s Social Media
Managing your church's social media properly will help connect with your congregation and community. There are many social media tools to help you with this monumental task. This isn’t an exhaustive list but it will help you get started (search for more “social media...
Using Videos to Enhance Church Communications
Creating a video or website video full of faith-centered content is vital to any church. People often head to church websites to glean from the information provided. They want to learn, and they want to grow. What if you could give the people what they want by...
9 Activities Your Church Should Inspect
An inspection process helps ensure policies and procedures are followed, and when it’s not, variances in practice are reported to management for correction.
How to Recruit New Tech Team Volunteers
This month's tech question comes from Lori P. from Goldsboro, NC, who asks, " Do you have advice on recruiting new tech team members?" I do, and I know how difficult it can be for ministry leaders to find new volunteers. It’s a necessary part of every tech director’s...
Worship Facility Podcast: Service Planning – Creating Incredible Services 52 Times a Year
Over each of the 52 weeks in a year the production, worship and creative teams can start relying on past successes instead of crafting dynamic new ones. Executive Pastor Ben Stapley presents a number of approaches to develop dynamic church services. Takeaways Include:...
Getting and Keeping Volunteers for Christmas
7 tips to help you find and retain volunteers year round
Finding a Niche as a Church Leader and Local Church
A key leadership aspect that can greatly impact a ministry is finding a niche - a discovered thought area where you can flourish and become an expert. This focus is more effective than it is to know “a little something” about everything. People pursue experts. Every...
Worship Facility Podcast: Write Above the Noise – 4 Keys to Developing Compelling Content in Your Communication
The digital age with its increased demand for content has placed an incredible burden on church communications and media teams. With the average person exposed to 4,000 to 10,000 ads per day, messaging in all forms requires skillful writing to land on the radar of our...
So, You Have AV Volunteers. How Do You Keep Them?
It’s not enough to just get volunteers; you have to nurture them to help them feel safe and connected
Wrapping Up CFX 2023 and Looking at CFX 2024
This year's Church Facilities Expo has ended, and as in previous years it was better than ever before. For the second year, the first day included masterclasses in the areas of worship production, leadership, security, and facilities management, and these half-day...