Posts By: Kevin D. Hendricks

Church Marketing Sucks T-shirts!

Now you can support the Center for Church Communication and look good doing it. Church Marketing Sucks, our popular blog about church communication practices, now has T-shirts available for a limited time. Five unique designs are available with orders taken until December 4. After that you’re out of luck. All profits from the shirts will… Reads more »

Relevant Leader Interview

Last month our very own Brad Abare was interviewed for the Relevant Leader, the weekly e-mail newsletter of the Relevant Network. Check it out and hear Brad talk about Beethoven’s “Eroica” and a wise move from Robert E. Lee.

New Events Lab Coordinator

Say hello to our new Events Lab Coordinator, Elizabeth Anchondo. She answered the call and stepped up to run our Events Lab. She’ll be keeping our events calendar updated and helping with events coverage, like the recent MinistryCom write-up on Church Marketing Sucks. Elizabeth has worked in the advertising/media industry for two years and recently… Reads more »

Red Herring on Web 2.0 & the Church

The business and technology magazine Red Herring mentioned Church Marketing Sucks in a recent online article about web 2.0 and the church, “Religious Sites Embrace Web 2.0”. The article covered MyChurch.org and eBible, and included a quote from, well, me: “The church is probably handicapped in the sense that the least likely place you’ll find… Reads more »

Pioneers

Editor’s Note: And so we come to the final installment of our ‘heart and soul’ series. Last week Brad talked about the realities of running a non-profit, and this week we’ll close with another guest blogger entry. This time around it’s Kem Meyer, the director of communications for Granger Community Church and prolific speaker (she’ll… Reads more »

Communicating Any and Every Which Way Possible

Editor’s Note: Welcome to the latest installment in our ‘heart and soul’ series. Last week we dreamed big. This time around we invited DJ Chuang–the executive director of the L2 Foundation, manager of online strategies and tactics for the American Bible Society and editor of Asian American Youth Ministry–to share his thoughts on the Center… Reads more »

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Church Tech

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review covers church technology in an article called “‘Godcasts’ spread the Gospel.” The piece covers the increasing use of technology for religious purposes, including everything from podcasting sermons to virtual tours of the Vatican to youth group rooms pimped out with video games–which is where we get a comment from our very own… Reads more »

How We’ve Helped

Welcome to another round of the ‘heart and soul’ series. Last week Mark Batterson shared a tribute to Church Marketing Sucks. This week it’s time to look at what we’ve accomplished. It’s time to brag a little. Church Marketing SucksChurch Marketing Sucks had its first blog entry in July of 2004. Two years later over… Reads more »

A Tribute to CMS

Editor’s Note: We’re in the midst of a ‘heart and soul’ series, explaining why we want to help the church matter and just how we hope to do it. We started off talking about why we do what we do and last week Brad explained the history of how this whole thing started. This week… Reads more »

Get Together at MinistryCom

A few folks in the Church Marketing Lab were talking about the upcoming MinistryCom conference in Phoenix Sept. 7-8, and they thought it would be fun to have a little gathering of Church Marketing Lab folks during lunch. We loved the idea, especially because we didn’t have to plan it. So during lunch on Friday… Reads more »