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Build effective church websites that reach the community
Without a website, a church is effectively invisible. With a website, you potentially create a shop window for the community to peer through. What is on display, especially 'near the glass', is very important.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/5876
Church growth advice - an outsider friendly church website can contribute to church growth
It is not uncommon for church websites to be very inward focused and therefore unable to communicate effectively with outsiders in the community.
http://internetevangelismday.com/church-growth.php
Vineyard church website design
How to create church sites that can reach out effectively into the community.
http://internetevangelismday.com/vineyard-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
Facebook Fan Pages as landing pages to promote your site or ministry
Interesting to notice that commercial companies (including new film releases) are now featuring Facebook Fan Page URLs in their TV commercials. Rather than initially point to their website, they use their Fan Page as a landing page which then links directly to their main site. The advantage is that people may become fans, thereby:
* opting in automatically to further news
* displaying to their friends the Fan Page link and its posts
* enabling discussion about the product or service featured in the Fan Page
Fan Page (and Facebook Groups) are highly strategic opportunities, either to make known your ministry to other Christians, or to creatively connect with not-yet-Christians. And, starting today, Facebook are introducing a new Community Page option.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1658
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
Church signboards for the street - ideas for noticeboards and signage publicity
Communicate Jesus blog shares this very easy idea – an A-frame sign outside the church building. Sounds very effective.
For the more conventional fixed church signage, there’s a book that may help:
701 Sentence Sermons
L James Harvey
Kregel Publications
ISBN 0-8254-2887-4
Here’s a new book of ’single sentence sermons’ – quotations and aphorisms – which have been collected together by Harvey to “use on church signs, bulletins, newsletters and sermons”. In fact, many would be useful on church websites too, perhaps on a rotating basis. Many are specifically evangelistic, others are motivational for Christians.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/556
Using social bookmarking systems to draw people to Christian websites
Social bookmarking is a way of storing links that you like, and sharing these ‘collaborative opinions’ with other people. The best known system is probably del.icio.us but there are many others.
http://internetevangelismday.com/socialbookmarking.php
Free church website tips: build an effective evangelistic church site to reach your community
Design and build a website to reach the community
“A church is the only organization that exists primarily for the benefit of non-members”
– William Temple
“Week in, week out, more visitors turn up at our church on a Sunday because of the website, than anything else”
– King’s Church, Kingston UK: a church site design using these principles
http://internetevangelismday.com/church-site-tips.php

