Practical AI & Your Work
How might Artificial Intelligence help you in your work? AI can help church staff be more efficient, effective, and strategic in their work.
Canva for Churches
Canva, known underground as “Photoshop or InDesign for Dummies,” is a fantastic online tool that allows you to create snazzy graphics for your social media, redo documents, or even create a bulletin!
Designing Purposeful Digital Ministry Content
In this workshop, we discussed practical strategies for developing thoughtful digital content that aligns with your ministry context.
Graphic Design Resources
Designing graphics for your church events and ministries can be daunting. Where do you find resources inexpensively or free?
SEO & Digital Marketing Essentials for Church Communicators
This workshop helps your ministry extend a wider-reaching digital invitation. Learn to differentiate between marketing and ministry communications while discovering the basics of how your ministry shows up in search engines.
Planning for Christmas
Christmas is coming! Join us for a collaborative time where we will explore how to communicate and advertise Christmas services and events effectively.
Social Media Ministry 101: How to Create Effective and Relevant Content Online
Join Deja McGhaw, a Social Media Manager and Consultant, for a workshop on Social Media Ministry. Discover the power and importance of ministering through social media.
AI & Your Work
Let's discuss how to unlock the potential of Artificial Intelligence in your work with this hands-on workshop.
Creating & Using Program Evaluations for Effective Church Communications
Do you want your church's communications efforts to resonate more powerfully with your congregation and community? Understanding the impact of your communication initiatives is paramount.
Advertising and Event/Opportunity Promotion
Let's talk about advertising. Does it sometimes feel like you are expending lots of energy on putting together advertisements or promotional materials and attendance is lower than you expected?
What You Wish Your Church Staff Would Know About Communications
What do you wish your fellow church staff would understand about your ministry of communications? Who the audience actually is, not what they think it is, and how to reach that audience?
The Power of a Small Church
The Power of a Small Church is a high-energy, fast-paced hour of ideas that might just work for your church. We will discuss publicity, music resources, the internet, services online, revenue ideas, your niche, and innovation.
eNewsletter Design
In our time together, we'll talk about our eNewsletter audiences, fundamentals of layout and design, content structuring and hierarchy, and maximizing readability and engagement.
It’s IN the eNewsletter! Been there for weeks!
Let’s talk eNewsletters. What email sending service are you using? How do you decide what information and events go in and what doesn’t? How do you highlight the important stuff amidst a lot of other information?
Videography & Sharing Stories: From Gear to Post-Production
In 2022, video made up a staggering 83% of content across digital platforms like social media (LinkedIn). This means that videography is growing as a way to share our story, meaning more people will be viewing instead of reading.
Small & Rural Church Communications
In this workshop, we learned about utilizing traditional rural communication avenues to spread the gospel, communicating with minimal internet, and using social media in rural spaces.
Tasteful & Creative Bulletin Layouts in InDesign
Ever wondered why Adobe InDesign is such a beloved program for print layouts by professionals? Mystified by the endless array of options and controls? Curious how to leverage InDesign to add polish to those routine bulletins?
Focus on 5 Communications Areas & Ignore the Rest!
Updating your website each week, navigating Facebook's constantly changing platform, writing an article for the church newsletter every month, connecting with folks worshipping online… the list of communication-related tasks can…
Squarespace Web Design 101
Do you have a Squarespace website or are you looking to build a Squarespace website? This workshop will show you how to build and edit a website; from starting a website from scratch to launching the site.
Year-Round Stewardship and the Vital Role of Communicators
Stewardship is not about money, it's about our relationship with God. Through the spiritual practice of Stewardship, we come to understand that everything we have is a gift from God and God has entrusted us to be good stewards of…