Communications Trainings
Communications
The 5 Key Characteristics of Life.Church's Voice
At Life.Church we have five key characteristics that serve as a filter through which we run every communicative piece we create. These help us keep our voice consistent and clear across every channel....
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Crafting Your Church's Voice
Every church has a unique voice, and that voice should be loud and clear! Express your church's mission and values through an effective voice that remains consistent across all your channels of communication....
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Safeguard Your Content with an Editing Checklist
Our content often needs to be sifted through many filters during the editing process, so it became necessary to capture every step so that nothing gets left out. That's why we created an Editing Checklist. We make sure to check every box on our list for every piece of content we produce. Creating a...
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Communications: Having a Servant's Heart
We talked in another video about giving and receiving constructive feedback . On a deeper level though, feedback is about teamwork and faith that everyone on your church team wants what's best for the church, your attendees, and those who don't yet know Christ. For any communications professional...
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Communications: Feedback Is a Gift
In any team, constructive feedback is necessary...and healthy. Humbling ourselves to listen to and learn from our coworkers is a key to creating excellent communication. And when you're the person giving feedback, let your team know that you're all on the same side of the table; feedback shouldn't...
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3 Tips for Creating Clear Communication
Keep these three questions in mind when crafting ministry communications: 1. What are you trying to accomplish? What would the 'win' be? 2. What is the context of the piece? What else happening in the church could affect the reception of the message? 3. Who is our audience? What do they know or nee...
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Tips for Establishing a Communication Review Process
Below you'll find our best practices for the communication review process here at Life.Church. Operations Pastors/Associate Operations Pastors should monitor written communication without being a bottleneck—working more like a consultant than a content creator. Talk to your Campus Pastor about...
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Facebook Live: Engaging Attenders with Social Media
Is your church looking to engage your attenders better through social media? Join us as we talk with Life.Church Social Media Director, Beau Coffron , about ways to build a connection and increase engagement through social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. This training was part...
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Lead with Vision: Tips for Stage Communication
At Life.Church, Pastor Craig teaches the message every week via video to our campuses. But every campus has a campus pastor who is responsible for boots-on-the-ground pastoring to the people in that community. They take to the stage every week for what we call "stage time"—it's an opportunity to sh...
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Communication: The Seven Touch Points
Sometimes people ask about our communication strategy for attracting new people to Life.Church and retaining current attenders. Because people are more distracted than ever and going to church less frequently, we want to get them excited about upcoming content so they’ll come (and bring a fr...
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