Church communication trends for 2024 — amid ‘ever-changing landscape’
To effectively reach and engage the community, let’s look into some trends — based on talking with hundreds of churches — that might shape the way churches communicate in the coming year …
Should associations sponsor missions trips?
Recently an anonymous post on a social media site for associational mission strategists asked participants about sponsoring missions trips. Should these only be done by churches, or should the associational organization also sponsor trips?
TN church closes its doors to help launch others for BlueOval ministry
“It was explained to us that if we waited until we had to close the doors, this would possibly not be a church anymore,” church deacon David Prine said. “It could be a McDonald’s. And we didn’t want that to happen.”
BCM/D is ‘in a great place’ to serve others, says exec Tom Stolle
We are experiencing tremendous unity and staff alignment. We will continue to invest in our staff and lift each other up. If we’re stronger, we’re better at serving you, and our desire is to be great at it,” Tom Stolle said.
Texans volunteers build playground for disaster relief host church
Texans on Mission volunteers from Paramount Baptist Church in Amarillo returned to Fritch in recent days to complete a project they learned about during a disaster relief deployment.
GCR Evaluation Task Force releases six recommendations
The Great Commission Resurgence Evaluation Task Force announced six recommendations on Monday (June 3), following the release of its final report three weeks ago.
‘God provides’: New well an answered prayer for Missouri church
People began investigating the problem and it became obvious the well was not recoverable and a new one would have to be drilled. There was only one problem: There wasn’t enough money to get the job done.
WMU Pursue Conference asks attendees: ‘Who is at your table?’
The Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas Pursue Conference kept the Great Commission focus that has been at the heart of the organization since its beginning, while setting the stage for coming shifts.