by Nick Blevins | Jul 18, 2016 | Communication, Partner With Parents
I don’t know about you, but we’re always looking for new and better ways to partner with parents. At our church, we have a 4-part strategy for partnering with parents and one of those components is communication. In terms of partnering with parents,...
by Nick Blevins | Oct 19, 2015 | Children's Ministry, Communication, Family Ministry, Student Ministry
Last week I shared a simple social media strategy for your ministry. Many churches and businesses are doing a lot more with social media beyond what I shared in that post. Michael Hyatt is one of the most popular bloggers in the world and his entire business is based...
by Nick Blevins | Oct 12, 2015 | Children's Ministry, Communication, Family Ministry, Student Ministry
Social media can be a powerful communication tool for our ministries, but it can also seem too complex to manage. There are a lot of questions you might ask yourself about how to approach it. What do we post? How often should we post? Which platforms should we use?...
by Nick Blevins | Aug 3, 2015 | Communication
Some people love email and others absolutely hate it. Like me, I’m sure you lean one way or the other and it’s probably influenced by your church email communication. Our staff uses email regularly and we expect our staff and volunteer leaders to...
by Nick Blevins | Jul 9, 2014 | Communication, Popular
If you serve on staff in children’s ministry or student ministry, you probably put on some important events each year. Church event promo isn’t exactly something we’re trained in before serving in ministry but it’s something we have to learn...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 10, 2014 | Communication
I wrote an article for the January/February edition of KidzMatter Magazine entitled “6 Things I Wish I Had Known About Communicating.” It was part of a series that included more “things I wish I had known when I first started a ministry job”...
by Nick Blevins | Nov 4, 2013 | Communication
Over the past couple of years at Community Christian Church, we have worked to improve the quality, consistency, and variety of our communication with students and their parents. We know everyone prefers different methods of communication, so we try to use all of them...
