Tag: Community Networking
Campus Planning Dashboard
By: Portable Church Industries .et_post_meta_wrapper For multiplication minded leaders in the church while deciding on where to church plant or launch your next church campus… A wise decision-making process is most comfortable and satisfying when ALL of the information is available. Making fully informed decisions with “all hearts clear” […]
3 Ways to Help Your Grand Opening Well-Wishers Help You
by Patrick Bradley: Your Launch Sunday attendance will be inflated by grand opening well-wishers. That can be good and bad at the same time. Here are some ideas to maximize the good and minimize the bad. Many churches experience a spike in attendance at their inaugural public worship gathering. Which […]
Use this Free App to Scan Business Cards with Your Smartphone
by Patrick Bradley: Save a ton of time and data entry when you scan business cards with your smartphone. Your new friend’s contact info goes straight from their card into your address book. As pastors and church planters, you should be out in your community meeting with civic leaders and […]
Call Me Back When You’re a Real Church
By Patrick Bradley: If you haven’t heard this response yet in your church planting journey, you will: “Call me back when you’re a real church.” Have a plan to address this before you’re hit with it. Oh, they never say it exactly like that. But when you invite someone to […]
Free Community Mapping Tools, Part 3: Carrier Route Maps
by Patrick Bradley: Third in a series of posts about community mapping tools, here’s another free tool to help you learn your community: postal carrier route maps. One of the challenges of getting the word out in your community is planning time & resources to let every household know about […]
Free Community Mapping Tools Part 2: School Boundary Maps
by Patrick Bradley: Falling in love with your community can be easy; doing the hard work of really getting to know it can take more effort. Here’s another free tool to help you learn your community: school boundary maps. One of the challenges of demographics research is cutting through the […]
3 Online Ideas for Connecting in Your Community
by Patrick Bradley: Planting a church is about building relationships, and many friendships start online these days. Here are 3 online ideas for connecting in your community. So many of us are living in ever-growing metros and densely-populated areas, and yet we seem to have never felt so isolated and […]
Use these 4 Free Community Mapping Tools
by Patrick Bradley: Use these free community mapping tools to help you do the hard missionary work of learning your community. Taking notes and marking things down on a saved online map will become invaluable as your network, serve and get the word out in your community. Radius Around an […]
6 Great Reasons to Network in Your Community
by Patrick Bradley: Networking is when you’re meeting with civic officials, business leaders, community groups, nonprofits, etc. Here are 6 great reasons to go network in your community today. I’m sure I don’t have hard numbers to prove it, but I would argue that there’s a tangible difference in the […]
How to Write a Church Donor Acknowledgement Letter
by Patrick Bradley: When a business or individual donates something, send them a church donor acknowledgement letter for their tax records. A local coffee shop has generously offered to provide coffee and muffins for your workers at a community service event. How exciting! All they want in return is a […]