CFCC News

2011 Annual Report

The 2011 annual report includes updates on where we've been, financial reports, a history of the organization, bios of our team and an update from Board President Drew...

More Than 60 Church Marketing Gurus Contribute to New Book, Outspoken

“It’s time churches take the opportunity and resources God has given them and communicate his story in a way that...

Goodbye & Thanks to Two Out-Going Board Members

The Center for Church Communication says goodbye as founding board member Phil Cooke and former executive director Cynthia Ware both step down from the board....

Outspoken Releases Sept. 15

We are thrilled to announce the release of our first book, Outspoken: Conversations on Church...

Goodbye & Goodluck: Staff Changes at CFCC

Staff changes are always a difficult and we get a double whammy with longtime coworkers, collaborators and friends Michael Buckingham and Joshua Cody moving on....

2010 Annual Report

The Center for Church Communication (CFCC) annual report for 2010 is now available, capturing our purpose, vision and organizational...

Creative Missions Tour

Creative Missions is coming to Albany, N.Y. this spring to help churches communicate better: "It's like an Extreme Church...

CFCC Meetups for 2011

The Center for Church Communication is organizing a number of informal meetups at church marketing events around the country this year. "Conversations matter," says Tim...

Cultivate Conference to Support CFCC

The Cultivate Conference for nonprofit and church communication leaders is coming to Southern California in May. The event is being organized by Center for Church Communication (CFCC) board member Dawn Nicole Baldwin and CFCC co-director Tim Schraeder. All proceeds from the event will be donated to two charities: CFCC and InvisiblePeople.tv, a nonprofit telling the...

Interviews with the Board

Over the past few months we've been doing a series of interviews with the members of our board of directors. Here's a round-up of those...

New Leadership for CFCC

Effective today, Justin Wise and Tim Schraeder will serve as co-directors of CFCC. They replace the current director, Cynthia Ware, who transitions to the...

CFCC’s Social Web Strategist

This fall we welcomed Justin Wise to our team as our social web strategist. He's overseeing our efforts in the social media realm, including Twitter and...

Fishers of Men Interview

Fishers of Men, a blog promoting a movie that releases this fall, spoke with our own associate editor Josh Cody about church...

The Best of 2010

Over at our flagship blog, Church Marketing Sucks, we've been collecting some of the best of 2010. Take a look at our roundups from the past...

Q&A with Phil Cooke

Today we launch a new series of interviews with our Center for Church Communication board members over at Church Marketing Sucks. We start with media guru Phil...

New Board Members

The Center for Church Communication recently welcomed four new members to the board of...

100 Huntley Street Interviews Josh Cody

The Canadian talk show 100 Huntley Street recently did a feature about the effectiveness of church signs, featuring our own Josh...

Refined Criteria for the Church Marketing Directory

We recently refined the criteria for the Directory, noting that submissions need to meet two criteria--that they fit under marketing and that they explicitly serve the local...

Shared Mission of Communicating the Gospel

Differences of opinion on matters of doctrine and belief can cause problems, so we've come up with a board-approved ecumenical...

Welcome to Steve Fogg

We're please to welcome Steve Fogg to our team of Regional Network Coordinators. Steve is a dynamic voice in the church communication...

Outspoken: Conversations on Church Communications

CFCC is proud to introduce the first effort of project catalyst Tim Schraeder: a brand new book, Outspoken. We introduce the project and let you know what to...

Firestarters: The Chapel & Ottumwa Bridge

Today we round out our 2010 Firestarters by looking at a church that's leveraging social media for good and another that makes things happen on a proverbial...

Firestarters: Guts & Grace

Today's Firestarters have guts and grace. Each one is choosing to relate and communicate to their surrounding community in a brand new...

Firestarters: Park & Waterfront

Today's Firestarters are changing the church communications game digitally and challenging what it means to "be" the...

Firestarters: BridgeWay & Mission

Today's Firestarters include a church with a keystone worship and arts ministry and a church that seeks to fulfill the mandate of Micah...

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