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What a way to jump start each service! Don’t overlook
the power of film and video as an internal communicative tool.
Bring your announcements to life. We can set up a template that
you’re people can use or we can set up a program to provide
you with video and film stories and announcements to promote ministries,
promote events or simply inform in an entertaining way. Announce
new ministries or recap recent projects. This is truly a great
way to make people see and feel the emotion and heartbeat of your
church.
Print Media/Graphic Support
Logo Design/Graphics Standards
Churches grow. Ministries are added and graphics standards
get overlooked. Many churches go one way or the other with their
graphics standards. Either they allow the various ministries to
drift off on individual tangents – graphically speaking
– or a church will become very inflexible in an attempt
to control a consistent graphic presentation. There is a middle
ground that gives a consistent look but allows for flexibility.
The answer is in a plan for the evolution of your graphics presentation.
It’s called a graphics standards manual and it answers all
questions before they’re asked.
Direct Mail-
Direct mail should be used three ways:
Visitor follow-up: A letter from the pastor, a letter
from the youth pastor and a letter from the Home Group Leader
nearest the visitor? Is that too much? Is there a better way to
utilize direct mail for visitor follow-up? Remember, your goal
is to show this person the Love of Christ. Can that be done through
direct mail in a way that compels them to return to the church?
Primary market area awareness: We can create a unique
set of direct mail post cards that are so popular among many churches
today. Or, we can draw from a set of stock cards to reduce the
cost. Either way, direct mail – while very much misunderstood
– can be used to create a primary market area awareness
for your church. The problem with generating primary market area
awareness is most media are much too expensive and cover an area
that is much too large. In other words, you waste a lot of money.
The choice for direct mail, while response rates typically run
low, is many times a wise choice
New member follow-up: Ahhh… They’re
in. They’ve decided to to become a part of the church. Time
for another letter from the Senior Pastor or Minister? Is there
a better way to use direct mail to let them know they’ve
made the right choice?
Signage-
As your church grows, the signage needs will constantly evolve.
We can set up the template and help your signage and facilities
people with the best materials to fit their needs. We’ll
ensure that you are always consistent in your signage and that
you stay up with the needs of signage as your church grows.
Guest Packets-
What does your guest take away with him/her? An impression? A
curiosity?
A badly produced guest packet? What you give them should compel
them to want to learn more or, even better, find their place at
your church. If it does the right thing inside an overall Godly
Growth strategy, they won’t even think in terms of your
church, they’ll call it their church! People want one of
two things after visiting your church:
1) Attendance without expectation or what might be viewed as Spiritual
anonymity.
2) Involvement . The visitor or guest materials should offer either
one without difficulty of discovery. The design should be consistent
with what they’ve seen and felt at the church.
Print Advertising-
Does your local paper have a religious section? Does your church
advertise in it… along with every other church? What about
the yellow pages? Are there in local, regional or national magazines
that you should consider with your advertising dollars? Yes, some
national magazines have local pages available for local advertisers?
There are some rules regarding print advertising. We would love
to impart hundreds of years of experience to you regarding what
you should do with your print advertising.
Church Bulletins-
Whether it’s shells for your overprinting or complex four
color 8 and 12 page weekly brochures – as is the case with
Lakewood Church – we have the designers and writers to bring
this critical part of your information dissemination up to an
unprecedented standard of excellence. Is it enough for your church
bulletin or worship schedule to simply inform or should you consider
other uses for this critical touch point with both members and
visitors.
New Convert Followup-
How involved is your church in evangelism? Are you taking Jesus
to the streets? The prisons? The local nursing homes? What then?
A Godly Growth strategy will help you bring the hurting and lost
into the church. A Godly Growth strategy will aim to increase
the effect of your evangelism efforts and keep track of those
converts through a variety of strategy executions.
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