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If you create within the church, you know the term Todd Henry uses all too well: “create on demand.” The challenge of finding and executing brilliant ideas at a moment’s notice can be exhausting, and eventually cause your work to be mediocre.Good news, Todd Henry understands you, the environment you live in and wrote a book especially for you: The Accidental Creative: How To Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice.While most artists don’t work well in a tightly scheduled box, we do need a...

Last month one of the biggest churches in the U.S., the 55,000-member Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, created a special Easter flash mob video that went viral, scoring more than 700,000 views so far. It was heralded as an example of viral video marketing and even got kudos from Adweek‘s Adfreak blog.The video featured more than 2,000 pastel-clad “spontaneous” dancers raising arms to an auto-tuned worship song in celebration of Easter Sunday. It’s eerily reminiscent of the Res...

If you’re like us, you’ve probably heard some buzz amongst your online circle about The Table Project. And if you haven’t, we’ve got the information directly from the horse’s mouth. We had the opportunity to speak with Jason Wenell of The Table Project about the initiative.The plan is to officially launch to the public on Feb. 23. But we’ve got 10 invitation codes specifically to give our readers a sneak peek (Update: Oops, all gone.). But more on that later. Here’s what Jason ...

What are QR Codes?QR codes are two-dimensional barcodes, much like the barcodes that you see in grocery stories or at Wal-Mart. However, they can store more alphanumeric characters that allow you to link to digital content such as SMS, IM, the web or open certain functions on your phone. How do you use a QR code? If you have a smart phone, you would go to your phone’s marketplace and download what is called a “QR code reader”. Once installed, you simply open the QR code reader and look ...

I would best describe A Guidebook to Visual Worship as the manual that should be in the hands of every tech, media and design volunteer and staff person. It is that good and necessary.This isn’t a long review, it’s not a long book. And in fact, again, this is more manual than book giving the why and what in a very digestible format. It is a nice mix of theology and practicum. Author Stephen Proctor, throughout the entire guidebook, spends time explaining how to use the tools. Both in very...

As a creative, do you ever feel like you could be serving more through the talents and abilities God has blessed you with?Creative Missions is a group of creatives and church communication folks descending on a targeted region to help churches and church plants. We’re pairing the talents of those who sign up with church needs, and grouping folks together to serve each church.These trips will be similar to typical mission trips, as we’ve all experienced them. However, instead of constructi...

Easter is only nine weeks away. Is your church ready? We’re launching a new series where we ask some church marketing experts for their input and our first question is about gearing up for Easter.What is your church planning for Easter and how are you communicating it?Cleve Persinger: Due to budget cuts, we’re not doing our usual big marketing for Easter. The Easter services are about apologetics – evidence for the resurrection, so as part of our Easter plans, we will have a one p...

We’re starting a twice-monthly feature here on Church Marketing Sucks that looks at the questions I get in my online office. We explained what online office hours are and how you can be a part of them last week, so check out that post if you missed it.That said, let’s take a look at some questions. This week, I answer an inquiry about ministry calling as well as how to preach from your iPad. Take a look and be sure to join me every Wednesday from 2-4 pm CST for online office hours!I am a ...

From California to Florida we have church communication jobs and freelance gigs for you.  Here’s a quick list of what’s new, but if you would like to see more check out the Center for Church Communication’s Job & Freelance Board.Youth With A Mission in Lakeside, Mont., Is looking for  volunteer creatives – graphic/web design, film makers and illustrators.The Ark Church in Conroe, Texas, is hiring a graphic designer.Christ Fellowship in Miami is hiring a production/technical dire...

A Catholic church in West Palm Beach, Fla., is planning to pray for Osama bin Laden. The action is sparking protest within the church itself.That says something about communication within the church. Reactions to the death of bin Laden have been all over the place, and that’s understandable.But headlines like “Church to Pray for bin Laden” really put it into perspective. Are we communicating one of our core doctrines—love your enemies—so poorly that actually doing it would make head...