What started as a blog post for the Clark event, featuring Bellarive, turned into a three part series about… well… Clark themselves. Let’s start the conversation… [Read more…] about Welcome to Clark [Part 1 of 2]
Archives for March 2013
How ‘Apple’ Are You? Take the Test!
Just because I’ve been critical of fanboi’s, doesn’t necessarily mean I’m not one myself.
Sure, I’ve only been using an Apple for over a year, but believe me when I say, it doesn’t take long before you’re hooked. I used to think it was funny when people would say they would have a hard time going back to Windows.
Until now.
But am I a fanboi? Are you?
Just exactly how ‘Apple’ are you?
Take the test and tell me how you fared:
Do We Need Church Leaders Anymore?
We can pretty much remove every single role of “leadership” in the Church now.
Do we need church leaders anymore?
We don’t need a preacher.
Seriously, we no longer need pastors to preach, we can listen to Driscoll, Piper, Bell or even the guy down the road who uploads vlogs with his latest sermon.
We don’t need a worship band.
We no longer need the worship band, we can play the CD with all the songs on (and probably performed better than your local churches music group. In fact, the YouTube video probably has the right words at the right point).
We don’t need someone to read prayers.
We no longer need people to think up intercessory prayers for the service, we can simply find a prayer blog online and download their latest guidelines.
This isn’t just for adults.
The same can be applied to the youth work as well, their are kids songs, handouts, Bible studies, we barely need to think about what we are going to do.
10 Outstanding WordPress Themes for Church Websites
When it comes to creating a website for your church there are no shortage of options. You could hire a designer or an agency to create a custom design, or go with any number of companies that offer some sort of template-based approach. Getting a custom design can often offer the most flexibility, but the cost is often out of reach for many churches. The template-based approaches will vary in quality, but in many cases you will have to host the website with the company, which means the monthly or yearly costs can add up.
An alternative option that works out well for many churches is to use the popular open source, and free, WordPress content management system. With WordPress you can host your site with the web host of your choice, which allows you to keep monthly or yearly costs very low. With WordPress the site can be maintained by staff members or volunteers since their is no technical knowledge required to be able to edit content or create new pages. One of the major benefits of using WordPress is the selection of themes/templates. There are free themes available, or you can get a high-quality premium theme for less than $100.
Why not try looking at top-notch WordPress themes for church websites?
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Our eBook Hits Over 1,000 Downloads!
This is kind of a crazy stat to share from our end, but we have officially hit over 1,000 downloads with this eBook either Sunday or Monday of this week. The best part about it? We did zero paid advertising for it, everything was by word of mouth! So for those of you wondering if social media can work, let this be a testament to the power it could have for your company or ministry.
There really is nothing we can say except, “Thanks for being awesome!”
iPad vs Paper [Video]
You can draw on paper. You can draw on an iPad.
You can type on paper. You can type on an iPad.
You can make notes on paper. You can make notes on an iPad.
You can … well … take a look: