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What Coach.me Can Teach Us About Discipleship


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A couple of years ago I picked up an app which really helped make a difference to me, Lift. Lift was a habit creating app that used a few psychological tricks to help you develop a new habit. The two main aspects were a community to encourage and praise each other and a “streak” factor to encourage you to compete against yourself and others.

It worked great for me for a while and it helped me start studying Spanish everyday, read the Bible everyday and write 1000+ words a day, too. After I picked up these habits I stopped using the app as much, but it continued to develop.

The biggest change was adding in professional coaches to create plans, encourage participants and enhance the social and accountability aspect. The name of lift also changed to Coach.me. That all happened over this year and I watched intently. It made me wonder. Maybe there is something we could learn about discipleship from Coach.me.

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Church Snapchat Guidelines


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Katie has written a follow up article that takes a different look at social media after this article was published. To see what Katie thinks now of social media, check it out here.

Snapchat has been popular for the past year. It’s mostly popular with teenagers whose parents don’t understand it and aren’t on it, but the user base has been growing (actually they have about 200 million users).

Our team created a Snapchat account around a year ago, but didn’t do anything with it because we figured no one would follow us and it seemed like a lot of work without a lot of return to send all of our “friends” snaps. But then Snapchat created the “My Story” feature. This made sharing with everyone easier and more accessible. Actually, we don’t even have to add anyone on Snapchat and for now, we’re not – let me explain.

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Terrible at Design? Canva is for You


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I’m not the best person at design in the world. Sure I can take an okay photo and I know a thing or two about okay fonts, colors and where to place text on a screen, but that’s where my skills really end. Anything beyond simple editing is a huge issue for me and I’m sure that the majority of people reading this are the same.

If you’re a professional designer you may well still find this interesting (and I’d love your more informed feedback) but this isn’t aimed at you. This is for the average person who knows a couple of things which look good but can’t make them. Maybe the small church plant who doesn’t have a designer in their congregation, or the church pastor who needs some great slides for this weeks sermon.

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