Pastors: 5 Employment Questions to Anticipate from Church Communicators
Let’s be clear, employment transitions are complicated and have the potential for concern. Pastors, from your vantage you want to protect yourself and establish a church communication team that will encourage ministry and improve systems to inform your congregation while you engage your community. It sounds perfect.
The Church Communicator (Comm) should want the same goals but they’re often concerned with ministry culture, leadership, the ability to accomplish your goals within ministry budgets, and how creative they can be using a team that juggles a lot of requests. They’ll have questions.
Here are 5 great questions to anticipate from a quality Church Communicator. I even suggest guidance to your answers!
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Leader, Are You Using Social Media Correctly?
He rolled his eyes. That’s the reaction I got recently as I talked with a church leadership team. I simply asked the senior pastor, “Do you post on social media?”.
Social media, even with all of its issues, is the method most people communicate, connect, and get news and information. So why shouldn’t the church interject into that open discussion? We should.
And since personal interaction is the method that most social media algorithms push to people’s walls, a leader — you — should be using social media. Just make sure you’re using it correctly!
Here are 3 ways to guide you so you’ll extend your ministry across the social media world (and not just your local church):
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