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Holy Week Social Media Resources: Free for You to Share
4/11/2022
Holy Week is a sacred time within our church calendar that we observe the events leading up to Christ’s death and resurrection. When it comes to communicating this on social media, we want to connect you with some helpful resources! We hope these resources will help you share God’s love to your community and world. GRAPHICS Stop your audience with eye-catching graphics! Here are resources for free graphics, with the opportunity to subscribe if you’d like. Church Motion Graphics Canva Igniter ...
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Monday Memo: Slippery Slopes
2/7/2022
Slippery Slopes I was thinking... Sister Joan Chittister has opened my eyes at many levels with regards to faith journey. She writes on the subject of humility words that struck a chord. Perhaps they will strike a chord with you as well: “…humility is the ability to submit ourselves to the wisdom of another. We are not the last word, the final answer, the clearest insight into anything. We have one word among many to contribute to the mosaic of life, one ...
re:Vision - Camp Create
7/16/2018
Welcome to Camp Create By Rev. Cyndi McDonald Like most good ideas, this one started with storytelling. As we sat around a table at Glisson for a lectionary discussion, Kindling the Fire, Rev. Zack Martin shared about the Crossroads UMC summer music camp. Zack described how campers produce a full-fledged musical from popular culture. Last summer’s camp performed the Broadway musical Honk! The sanctuary was filled, and after the performances on Saturday evening ...
Developing Leaders in Your Church: Great Inspiration in this 'Romans 12' Newsletter
8/8/2014
Be sure to read this edition of the Romans 12 Newsletter! It's about a great leadership development initiative that includes spiritual formation, study, and reflection on ministry. From Romans 12 Newsletter Issue #204 August 8, 2014 Growing Spiritual Leaders Dixon United Methodist Church in Dixon, California, has launched a leadership development initiative that includes spiritual formation, study, and reflection on ministry. Meeting monthly, over the course of nine months, leaders gather on...
Are You on Pinterest? Us too!
12/22/2013
Are you on Pinterest? The social media site is an online tool "for collecting and organizing things you love." Users "pin" website links to virtual bulletin boards to keep up with recipes, decorating ideas, books, favorite fonts, and anything save-worthy the internet has to offer. It's an excellent tool for saving and sharing ministry resources, worship tools, spiritual inspiration, and church insights. That's why the North Georgia Conference recently joined Pinterest. If you're a "pinner" too,...
How to Pitch to 'Patch'
7/15/2013
Patch.com and other community news sites are an awesome way to let your neighbors know about all the great things going on at your church. I asked Kristi Reed, Patch's community editor for Gwinnett and Northeast Georgia, about how churches can share news and events through their local Patch site. Patch provides three main (free) services that churches should consider taking advantage of: 1. Create your own news section on your local Patch site. To create your own news section on Patch, go ...
1st Impression Survey from the Church We Visited Sunday
7/8/2013
It was really good to have you at Harvest this week. I hope you enjoyed the service. I don't know if you're looking for answers, a church home, or just passing through. Whatever the case, I'm glad you chose to check us out. We think church should be a fun practical place to get the answers we need for life and help us grow in a relationship with God. Helping people connect with God is what Harvest is all about. By the way, as a first-time guest, you have a special point of view that we are ...
Ways to Meet Your Community: From St. Paul Grant Park
11/8/2012
"Everyone said that Halloween trick or treating was huge in the Grant Park neighborhood. So we had the idea that we could open the church fellowship hall up as a Halloween Hospitality station. We recruited eight adults who did not have children, and asked them to be Halloween Hosts. We all dressed up in costume (the pastor was a Starbucks barista) and we did some minor decorating, simple orange and black streamers and three pumpkins. A new member here, a graphic artist, designed and made street ...
10 Amazingly Easy Ways to Live Out Your Faith on Pinterest
10/23/2012
Tami Heim shared 10 amazingly easy ways to live out your faith on Pinterest in a recent blog post at StickyJesus.com. She writes, "for those of us on the lookout for every opportunity to #LiveSticky, Pinterest is yet another place to share and live out our faith. On this platform every board holds the possibility of becoming a glorious reflection the God we serve." A few of her ideas include: #1 Your Profile Profiles are part of the first impression you make on any social media platform. On...
Ideas Generated in Worship Planning Workshop
10/8/2012
newsroom.kelloggcompany.com/index.php Special K launched an ad campaign in January of 2011 where people were asked to get on a scale in Times Square in order to be weighed? Would you be willing to be weighed like that? None of us wants to be weighed and found wanting but the idea of what we will gain when we lose took me to Lent. Here are some folks at their weigh in www.youtube.com/watch