Announcing: Kingdom Church Website Template
One of my life goals is to impact 10,000 churches across the United States. My hope is that I can help them have a more inviting, welcoming website to help spread God’s love throughout every community. Churches have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on this earth, leading more people into The Kingdom, and I hope to help churches …
Live Video Review of Sun City UMC – 12pm CST on 4/19
Hey guys, tomorrow (Tuesday, April 19, 2016) I will host a LIVE Facebook Video about our experience at Sun City United Methodist Church in Sun City, FL. This church has been recognized by its annual conference as one of the top 15 churches in the conference for church growth! Come listen in on what we loved about worshipping with these …
Church Online Giving 2016 Update
Here at ChurchBuzz, we’ve been paying attention to online giving in the church for years now. It’s important stuff because as the world continues to “go online,” the Church must adapt in order to “reach people where they are.” With that in mind, we thought we’d share our 2016 online giving update. The following is our most current thinking about …
First-Time Guest Experience at Moody Memorial First UMC
Hey, guys, Patrick Steil here with ChurchBuzz. I’m in sunny Galveston, and I want to tell you about our first-time visitor experience at the Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church. First, I’ll talk about the actual branding of the name of this church. If you look on the website, they call themselves Moody Methodist Church. Their domain name is moody.org, …
New Church Website Feature: Online Sermons
Stream your audio and video messages from your Church Website with the New “Sermon Manager” plugin We are staying on top of things so you and your website can benefit from the latest greatest plugins. Our recent addition for ChurchBuzz WordPress clients is Sermon Manager, a customizable sermon plugin so your church members (whether they miss a Sunday or want …
Merry Christmas!
From the ChurchBuzz team to each of your families and your churches, we wish you a blessed and Merry Christmas! We pray your church will be filled with many first-time visitors and that you will be able to touch them and help them make a connection with the newborn Christ!
First-Time Christmas Visitors: Lessons for Your Church
In case you missed it, I wrote up a blog post about how to Welcome your first-time visitors, which was a current summary of my findings in visiting different churches this fall. It might help out with some of your Christmas traffic, but certainly beyond that! My blog post was actually published on the North Texas Conference of The United …
ChurchBuzz Websites just got a little bit Faster!
As of December 3, 2015, our DNS provider – CloudFlare – launched HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is the new and improved version of HTTP and is optimized for the modern web. It makes CSS, JavaScript and images load simultaneously without overhead. From the CloudFlare website: HTTP/2 is the first major upgrade to the HTTP protocol in over 15 years. Websites have changed …
First Time Guest at First United Methodist of Little Rock, Arkansas
That service was weird! Both of our kids agreed. They weren’t really sure why. When we entered the property, a greeter welcomed us outside. He had a sign around his neck that said “Ask me for Help” or something like that. That was cool. We told him we were looking for the Contemporary Service, and he walked us down the …