Social Media

Social media is where your students are hanging out. If you want to reach them, you need to engage with them on their turf. So, what should you do? Just keep struggling to stay up-to-date with your social media posts and suffer through the overwhelming nature of it all? Of course not. Just because it's overwhelming now doesn't mean it has to stay that way. Here are four tips to help you utilize social media in your ministry without getting overwhelmed.

It started as a simple idea that took only a few minutes to create: A Facebook page for local ministry leaders. Now, with a booming network of peers throughout the city, Amy Fenton shares her experience about how building a network actually builds up each other.

By establishing a unified plan, your church can create consistency of work and build momentum. Planning always works better than constantly scrambling to decide what to do next. It sets the scope of your work, so you avoid becoming overburdened or underperforming.

Facebook Groups are a great place to build community. So how can your church leverage Facebook Groups to help your people interact more intentionally? Let's dig into a few ways:

A church website is one of the most important communication tools your church has to reach the community. Why is that? Because more and more people first go to a church’s website to find out more about the church before they ever walk through the door of your building. Despite its overall importance, a church’s […]

Blogging is so 2000. Does anybody ever read blogs anymore? What could you possibly say on a blog? Especially a church blog. These are all reasons commonly used by people who think that churches do not need to have a blog. While some of these may seem to be accurate, it doesn’t tell the whole […]

The holidays are upon us! It is a wonderful time of year that incorporates some major events: Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. With these events come wonderful opportunities for your church to create amazing holiday social media content that inspires, challenges and engages your community. In fact, there is so much you can do around […]

It is well known that if you want to reach students these days, you have to have an active presence on social media. That is where students are and will be. But what about parents? How do you reach parents these days? As hard as it may be to believe, social media is actually a […]