The Digital Church

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Welcome them, make them feel at home, and keep them coming back. Building Traffic Share your church and make sure it can be found. We look after Search Engine Optimisation and making sure your details are found by Facebook and Twitter. Facilitating Conversion Do more than just attract visitors. Convert them to supporters or members with our tools for mailing list building and more. Increasing Communication Handle all your communications from one place, and make sure everyone knows what is happening.

Dying churches seek to maintain an institution, while healthy churches seek to advance a movement.

Gathering Results Built in analytics to help you track your progress and decide how to use your website more effectively. Optimized for Performance We look after all the technical things to make sure your site loads quickly on any device — from mobile to tablet to big screens. Security and Backups Sleep easy, knowing we look after all your websites security and keep robust backups just in case. We have partnered with a handful of churches over the last 1 year and now are ready to open our our doors to churches and ministry that are ready to grow.

Are you ready to open wide your digital door?

Perhaps you are not sure what needs to happen or if we are a fit for you. Because FaithVox is passionate about helping churches speak digitally, we would like to offer you some FREE stuff to get you started. Join our mailing list to receive a free copy of our e-book: We regularly write about church communications and marketing, web and social media — always trying to give practical advice for churches. Simple Tips , Strategy.

The Future of the Church is Digital: Part 1 — Hicks Strategy

Design , FaithVox Dev. The time has arrived for your ministry to open wide its digital door. Other ministries have achieved this. Effective online communication for churches is tough. We, at FaithVox , get that. A few ministries are getting great results. But the majority are not.

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Is the Digital or Internet Church Really the Church?

We live in an increasingly digital world, which means digital outreach belongs as part of a holistic outreach strategy. It simply means using the digital tools available to you to reach your community for Christ. You can start by creating a thoughtful plan that includes the use of digital platforms as part of your outreach efforts. The internet is the number one tool people use to search for information they need.

Since you only have one chance to make a good first impression on someone, make sure your website is representing your church well. Think of it this way: As you edit and polish your website, it helps to put yourself in the shoes of potential new visitors, especially those who may not be familiar with church. Is the content on your website presenting a simple, clear picture of what they can expect from your church? If not, test and tweak different ideas to make your site visitor friendly.

You can even ask for feedback when you meet new visitors at your church! Outreach Sites makes building and managing a website easy with features and templates designed just for churches. Social media is where community happens online — if you want to reach people where they are, your church needs to be on social media. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, are excellent tools for creating awareness around your church and engaging with your community. There is no reversing that trend. We can be frustrated as church leaders that the digital world is moving faster than our ability to understand it.

That's a valid frustration too, but apathy isn't valid. What we must do is decide how we want to respond.

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We can be anti-technology with our heels in the sand while we maintain our institutions or we can embrace the incredible age in which we live. Pastors have something that churches for centuries would weep over: The hard part for churches and ministry staff with technology or digital marketing is that it changes incredibly fast. I honestly cannot think of another industry that is changing as fast as marketing.

Doctors who went to medical school 30 years ago have to keep up with the changing trends of the healthcare industry, but human anatomy is the same as it was 30 years ago. The pastor who went to seminary 30 years ago and learned how to prepare an expositional sermon can still use those skills today. Technology, software, and marketing strategy for churches evolves and changes every month. Even industry experts who have been leaders in their field for decades are struggling to keep up.

I hear fundraising consultants at conferences speak about strategies that are dead or dying. They have been thought leaders for their entire career and are facing a digital age that is crushing every tool in their toolbox. Many churches are doing it already. This is different than a communications director or creative director who is deeply involved in the worship experience.

A Pastor of Communication, or connections, or strategic ministry, or innovation, or any other title you want to give it is unique. I would get creative in finding the money for that. I only want to make the case that I do think some budgets could be more wisely allocated towards making a position like the one I described above. There has been a lot of negative talk about the past year, but I refuse to be anything but insanely optimistic. I sincerely believe that the Church has more resources than any other time in the history of the Church to fulfill the purposes of the Church.

Most likely, you’re not doing all you can to impact the people within your reach.

I wake up excited about that fact. I am passionate about helping churches realize their potential to reach their communities through new technology and strategies. I have both been on staff at churches and spent a decade working in marketing. I do have a unique perspective. Most of all though, I have a ton of enthusiasm at what churches will do in the next few years with all these new technologies and platforms at their disposal. As I said in the title, this post is Part 1. I wanted to set the stage and diagnose the problem.

In Part 2, I will offer some actionable content and strategies. The Future of the Church is Digital: Billy Graham used incredibly expensive sound systems to tell millions about a man named Jesus.