Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Use What Works for Church Communication

As the old analogy goes, it's always best to pour sidewalks after the paths are worn. At Parkview we're finding this is often the best way to learn how to communicate with people. For example, let's face it, more and more people are on Facebook. So what do you do? Pay for mediocre version of a "Christian" Facebook service? There my be important reasons to join Christian web services, but more often than not your best move is to try and harness the communication mediums that are already in place and filled with your people. This is why Parkview now has a Facebook page...



And why my new church plant The Vine also has a Facebook page...



For project management here is a private blog set-up on blogger that is being used by our building committee at Parkview...



And here is one we use in the arts ministry...



Park Church is known for it's progressive use of technology for communication. Here is a video posted by Tim Schraeder that Park recently used in their church service allowing people to sign-up instantaneously for church texting notifications.



Bottom line, if you want to connect and communicate with people, do your best to use what's already working.

2 comments:

Tim Schraeder said...

Hey Scott, Great thoughts. I completely agree with what you are saying. I think the challenge we all face is finding what works in our own individual contexts and implementing it. I think too often we chase what's cool instead of taking the time to discover what's effective in our individual communities. From the looks of it you are doing a great job where you and sounds like you have an exciting adventure ahead of you at The Vine!

Scott Sterner said...

Wow Tim, I feel like the pope of church communication just left a comment on my blog. :) Thanks for your words and encouragement.

The team for The Vine is excited for the planting challenge. One of these days we'll make it out to one of Park Church's events and say hi. I appreciate what you guys are doing.