There’s a reason IKEA doesn’t sell their stuff without instructions. It would be foolish for Yamaha to ship a console without any guides. I’m sure they’re many of us around the world glad they ship with manuals. Every thoughtful producer ships their product with some sort of documentation. To bring it a little closer to home, church has the ultimate example of documentation. Bear with me. I know someone might already be thinking I’m going the corny route. You know, like how, “…the Bible is the manual of life…”. Though it is that’s not what I’m on.
Why The Twitter Follower Purge Is Great Thing
From spam, bots to ‘unsavory’ engagement Twitter has had to deal with a lot of challenges over the years. To be honest, there were times I thought its demise was imminent. Yet, they’ve been resilient in addressing some of these challenges. Now, I know how they address or have addressed some of these things is debatable. Is that what they should have done? Was whatever they’ve done enough? Should they have done x or y that way? Whatever our opinions we can’t deny that some of the things that have bothered us, bother them as well.
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Managing Workload While Serving The Whole Church
Many members (people) make up the church. Paul, the apostle, wrote about the community of believers using the analogy of a body. Everyone performing a different and necessary part. In a general sense, everyone in the church has something to contribute and should do so. This is one of the reasons I mused about whether “volunteer” was a healthy word for the church and its members. It takes different teams or people playing their parts to enable the mission of the church. Some functions happen independent of others, while others are like the central nervous system.
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How I Setup An Event Website Using WordPress
Besides typical church services (experiences etc), every church, every now and then, will run an event. These events vary. Some are for specific groups or interests, and others more general. Conferences are a great example of a deviation from ‘typical’ events. Some events required registration and payment. After Setting up a WordPress event website, I thought this post might be helpful for others.
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Church Tech Budgeting And Expenditure Considerations
Budgets are, or should be, clear statements of intent. They’re a critical part of strategy execution. Your church cannot (or should never) run without them. I’m no finance expert but I can tell you that you don’t need money to draw up a budget. It is about what you want to accomplish and how. This is where strategy (what / end goal) and the means (how) come together. And, as with anything else in church life, church tech must never be left out in budgeting. Church tech budgeting, and this includes the expenditure, must never be an afterthought.
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Facebook, Twitter, and other similar platforms have conditioned us to links in posts. Unfortunately or otherwise, links in Instagram posts are not available. This is has given rise to link services for Instagram. A needed service if adding links to your posts is something, like me, I want to do from time to time. Not only of individuals but the need might be greater for churches as well. I took a look at four Instagram link services/tools/platforms.
As you’ll discover, the fourth might not be a service per se.