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Your Church Facebook Marketing Strategy


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I have created a sample marketing strategy to help your church use this amazing platform called Facebook. This is certainly not a comprehensive strategy and I would be glad to consult with any church on their marketing strategies, but here is a good start at taking your Church’s Facebook presence to the next level. Summary This is going to be a very simple strategy with one goal in mind: to build awareness of your church in the community and the surrounding areas and to convert Facebook ... Read More

Are Quick & Easy Design Services Worthwhile?


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It is important for a church to stand out in their community and to attract people to the gospel. Often marketing and branding are not really associated with churches, but there are a lot of Biblical principles in marketing, and branding and these tools can be used to attract people to the Gospel. When it comes to churches, a budget can be everything. There are so many services out there these days for easy to create a design, websites, logo’s, etc. These services offer pre-built, out of the ... Read More

Habitica: Gamify Your Life [Review]


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Habitica is a task manager app that was recently featured in the iOS app store. It is also available on Android. What caught my attention about it was that it used gamification as a motivator to help you accomplish your task. Gamification is the act of adding game-like elements to make something that may be mundane to make it interesting. It is usually used for education. This 8bit RPG style game/task manager allows you to first create a character for yourself with sever customizing options. A ... Read More

How the New Facebook News Feed Will Affect Church Pages


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What does the Facebook's News Feed update mean for you? Facebook is updating the news feed to focus more on content that is from friends and family and engaging content. Many businesses and organizations are going to feel the hurt of this, especially if Facebook is a primary source of marketing: ... Read More

In Memory of Art Rorheim: Founder of AWANA Clubs International


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If you grew up attending church in the 80's and 90's chances are you may have been apart of an AWANA program. AWANA is a children's program created by Art Rorheim in the 1920's and 30's at a time when most churches only offered Sunday school as a program for teaching children about God. This new program was created as a "Christian version of Boy Scouts" but really became a dynamic program for developing children into a relationship with God by providing solid teaching alongside games, ... Read More

New Default Minecraft Textures Are Here!


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Mojang released their new take on the default textures of Minecraft as a Resource Pack that you can download and use. This package will eventually be released as the new default texture pack of Minecraft in a future update. For now, Mojang is looking to hear feedback from its users on what they have so far. There are certainly going to be textures that people will like and dislike in this new texture pack. That is one of the downsides of installing many of the user created texture packs that are ... Read More

ChurchMerch 8bit Minecraft Christmas Apparel


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Last week I was messing around with Illustrator and I was thinking about 8bit design and I thought to myself what would a reindeer look like in 8bit Minecraft style. So I spent about an how putting together colors and looking at classic Christmas images of Reindeer that I found on Google Image Search (Best Place For Inspiration). And before I knew it, there it was staring at me on my screen, a pixelated Rudolf the Rednose Reindeer. I added a "Merry Christmas" to the design in an 8bit font. ... Read More

How Good Design Adds Value to Your Ministry


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Graphic design is often underestimated in its ability to add value to a ministry organization. It adds value to the overall representation of God to the community as well as added value to the reputation of your ministry. The design process can generate new ideas and allow you to discover your audience and their needs. Design can then help you turn ideas into innovative and competitive services that are suitable for your audience. You can also use design to make your ministries everyday ... Read More