You write about what you know. When I started Forkintheroadmusic I was basically just leading worship both in churches and out at camps, and retreats. Since that time I have become increasingly interested in how we as a church communicate. Because of that interest I have taken on some communication responsibilities in our church, and [...]
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Help Me Save a Life
November 15th, 2009
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For the past two years I have been supporting the “Nothing But Nets” campaign. The campaign raises money to provide mosquito nets that protect from Malaria with the goal of wiping out the disease on the continent of Africa.
Between now and Christmas I want to raise enough money to buy 1000 nets. At $10 each [...]
Before You Create Your Webpage
November 11th, 2009
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“Do you want people to spend time visiting your church website or visiting your church?” This is the question a wise person asked me when I was talking about upgrading our church website. The question caused me to rethink some of the things I was planning for our site. I am not arguing against having a [...]
My Shared Items 11/02/09
November 2nd, 2009
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Each week I receive posts from over fifty different blogs. I collect and read them on Google Reader and thought you might benefit from some of the things I am reading. So here are some of my favorites from this week.
In Happy Hallow…. Harvest Festival, Michael Buckingham talks about ways to use Halloween as an [...]
Instrumental Reflections Live #1 Haunting Melody
August 19th, 2009
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Instrumental Reflections take on a different look with this video recorded live from ustream
Will twitter Replace Email
April 21st, 2009
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Tonight I was watching the weather channel and when the asked for feedback they did not give an email address to send a response to or a number to send a text to. Instead they asked viewers to twitter their responses in. So that got me to thinking. Would twitter replace email? What about text [...]
Ways Our Church Uses Twitter #1
April 10th, 2009
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Yes, just last week I put up a post entitled Why Not to Use Twitter, The truth is I think twitter can be a great tool to use for your church. Here is the first of several examples of how we are using twitter.
Our youth director recently set up a twitter account for the youth [...]
Why Not to Use Twitter
April 8th, 2009
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For the past week I have heard all the advantages of using twitter and facebook in your church. Here is an interesting post from the folks at Church Marketing Sucks with some warnings about this. I agree with them. Here is an excerpt from the closing.
“Your church will never be great because you figure out [...]
Appreciating Your Worship Team: Social Media
March 15th, 2009
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There are many ways to let your worship team know you appreciate them. Some of these include sharing a meal together, or even giving a CD as a gift. One more I way I thought of today is to use social media.
The beauty, and sometimes curse, of social media is that whatever you put up, [...]
Sunday Setlist 1/11/09
January 11th, 2009
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When we started rehearsing today, my thoughts were that this was not going to be a good morning. If you follow me on twitter or facebook you know what I am talking about. On Wednesday we had installed four brand new wireless Sure microphones and when installed there were a few cracks and buzzes but [...]
