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Vineyard church website design
How to create church sites that can reach out effectively into the community.
http://internetevangelismday.com/vineyard-church-website.php
Church website design for Anglican Church of England and Episcopalian webmasters
This guide explains how to create church websites that are outsider friendly and reach into the parish.
http://internetevangelismday.com/anglican-church-website.php
Assemblies of God church website design for AG / AoG Pentecostal Church webmasters
This guide explains how to create church websites that are outsider friendly and can reach into the community.
http://internetevangelismday.com/assembliesofgod-church-website-design.php
Baptist church website design: building sites that reach outsiders
A guide to creating Baptist church websites that can reach outsiders in the community.
http://internetevangelismday.com/baptist-church-website.php
Media contacts for interview and press releases with news of Internet Evangelism Day
We offer below a range of news items and short articles which can be adapted and edited for any Christian magazine, church bulletin, email newsletter or the religion section of a secular newspaper.
http://internetevangelismday.com/publicity.php
The potential for Christian contact cards, and how to design and use them
Contact cards are a great way to communicate with someone one-to-one, leaving them with a way to contact you, visit your church website, or learn more from an outreach site.
It is possible print your own onto cardstock, if you have a good option for accurate cutting. However there are many online companies that enable you to choose ready-made backgrounds, and edit the text (even add your own graphics) online, using draggable resizable text-boxes that you may be familiar with from desktop publishing programs such as Publisher or Serif. They can be very cheap – even under 10 dollars/euros/pounds for 250.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/867
Resources to help Christians understand how to relate to and use culture
It is vital that we learn to understand and relate to modern culture. Here are some helpful resources:
Engaging in the cultural landscape – Ministry Toolbox article by Kevin G. Harney, adapted from his new book Organic Outreach for Ordinary People, Zondervan.
19-minute Q Talks conference session with Josh Jackson.
17-minute Q Talks conference session with Andy Crouch, author of Culture Making.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/810
Research study on making church websites outsider friendly and evangelistic
Ceri Longville, a student at Redcliffe Bible College in Gloucester UK, has just published her college dissertation on church websites.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/945
The Internet is changing the context of ministry for churches
Before the Internet and YouTube, this was impossible – that a small-church wedding video could go viral, and then become the storyline for a major TV series: see The Office, the Wedding and the Power of the Internet – a blog posting from Mark Roberts.
Look too at how the world of advertising has changed in 20 years. A comparison chart was featured at Barcelona’s Chiringuito and was picked up by Ministry Marketing Coach, where Kerry Bural comments, “Each of these mediums and technologies (plus many more) represent potential connection points that could and should be leveraged for reaching people. Do churches and ministries have a baseline understanding of these and other mediums? Is the complex nature of communication on your radar?”
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/920
Projecting videos in a church service - give viewers a time frame
Stewart Redwine writes in Christian Video Magazine about an issue with short films being projected in a church meeting. “The problem with short films shown in a Church service is simply this; no one knows when the video will end.” They know that TV ads last 30 seconds, music videos 3-6 minutes, and TV programs 30 minutes. They have no frame of reference for engaging with a video short, unless we give them help.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/799