Church Management System: What a Church must Communicate
Using a church management system (ChMS), like Breeze ChMS, can greatly enhance communication within a church community. But remember, it’s a two-way system that requires your members and you to engage with it. Here are some tips to effectively utilize a ChMS for communication in your church and what you must communicate to your members:
Create a centralized hub for everything. Before anyone will want to be part of your ChMS, you need to create a place that’s professional, up-to-date, and has as many pieces of information as possible: important messages, announcements, financial reports, etc. And it must connect to your website content to help establish your digital hub.
Encourage everyone to register. It’s important to you as church leadership to have...
5 Must-do tips for Engaging Students at your Church
Engaging students at your church is critical to retain them throughout their schooling, and into young adult life. Remember, communication is different than engagement though! Any parent will confirm that talking to a student is different than interacting with a student. So, strive to listen as much as you talk.
A church has several demographic groups called “students”: elementary, middle school, high school, and college. Each student group has its own communication challenges. Many of these tips can work with each group but, because parents make most of the decisions for elementary and middle school students, let’s focus on the older student groups: when students make more decisions independent of parents.
Here are 5 tips for engaging students at your church:
Have listening...