Your Website is Great, But Where in the World Are You?

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Last week I had occasion to search a fairly large number of websites for vital information. All I needed was a street address. Not only were the street addresses not easy to find on many of the sites, they were buried two or three pages deep and, on a couple of sites, nonexistent. These were [...]

What’s Your Sign?

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What does your sign say about your organization? It’s seen by a few or thousands, depending on your location. Would you buy an ad in your local newspaper or magazine and use the space in a way that confuses and/or alienates your audience? This church used their visual real estate unwisely and I’ll guess that [...]

Memphis Connect: Lock Arms and Make a Difference

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This coming weekend, March 12 – 13, more than 400 young adults from nine states just might raise the roof of the Orpheum in downtown Memphis, as The Rising kicks off a weekend of worship, teaching and service. What’s The Rising? Their Web site describes it as “a two-day multicultural experience in the urban core [...]

Memphis Connect: Beyond the Four Walls

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I just posted this on Memphis Connect: If you were asked to write your eulogy, how would it read? For Kelli and Dr. Joe Carson, members of The Life Church of Memphis, that question launched a journey that led them from a comfortable suburban life to ministry in neighborhoods that people who look like them [...]

Go 2.0: New Tools for an Old, Old Story

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I just finished my presentation at Connection2010 conference in Orlando, Florida. We had some great discussion and I was quite impressed with the audience and how open they are to using these tools for ministry. Go 2.0: Social Media and the Church: View more presentations from beth g sanders.