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Church Communications Strategy: A Guidebook

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Your Church Communications Fresh Start

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Story Basics for Church Leaders

Small Steps You Can Take to Build a Healthy Volunteer Culture

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Grow Your Church Communication Skills With These Helpful Project Management Fundamentals

Racial Reconciliation: Foundations

Church Websites and Coronavirus

How to Create the Perfect Church Website

Creating a Website for Your Church

How to Communicate with the Next Generation

Podcasts

Updating Our Philosophy of Communication: An Interview with Amy Chaney

Let It Go! The Art of Delegating

Planning Your Advent and Christmas Season Communications

Collaborate Successfully With Cross-Ministry Communication

How to Lead When You're Not in Charge

Talking Church Communications: A Discussion with Lauren Bounds

Talking Church Communications with Ruth Noble

This Is the Core Purpose of Church Communications

4 Lessons Church Communicators Say They’ve Learned in Their Role

What We Wish We Knew When We Started in Church Communications

Virtual Church with Corey VanHuizen

Evaluating and Measuring Success

Learning From Failure

How to Create a Marketing Strategy For Your Church's Special Events

Remove the Chaos and Organize Your Files

Ministry Silos (And How to Overcome Them)

Transitions and Leaving Well

What We Mean When We Say...

How to Avoid Compassion Fatigue as a Busy Church Leader

AI and the Church with Kenny Jahng

Church Communications and Marketing Tips for Summer

Reimagining Church Communications at All Nations Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Reels, TikTok, and Incorporating Video Into Your Church’s Social Media Strategy

Tips to Help You Communicate Effectively to Multiple Generations

Q&A: We're Answering Your Church Website Questions

Our Favorite Church Communications Tools (And How You Can Use Them Too!)

Practical Time Management Tips for Busy Church Communicators

Things You Can Still Do to Improve Your Church's Easter Marketing

How Can We Tell More and Better Stories?

3 Church Communication Tips to Help You Finish 2022 Strong

How You Can Improve Your Church's Live Stream and Podcast Strategy

The Elephant in the Room

Ways to Show Volunteer Appreciation

Lessons From a Volunteer Church Communications Leader

You Can Have a Healthier Volunteer Team

Good Design Matters

You DON'T Have to be on Social Media

Redeeming Digital?

Digital Missionaries

What's the Future of Hybrid Worship?

Stop Waiting For Comments: Flipping social media engagement on its head

Preventing Ministry Burnout

How You Can Use Digital Ministry to Reach People

For the Church in Crisis

What's Your Physical Space Communicating?

Internal Communications

Church Communications in 2022

What We're Reading in 2022

You Need to Evaluate Your Church's Website

How to Evaluate Your Church's Communication Strategy

Small Things You Can Do Now to Improve Your Church Communications in the New Year

How to Have Better E-Newsletters in the New Year

What About Online Church?

Can Instagram Really Build Community?

Why You Still Need Zoom

Can You Build Community Through Text Messages?

Creating a Content Plan that Builds Community

How to Build Community Through Facebook Groups

Tools for Building Community Online

Building Community Online

Telling Better Stories

Communicating in This New Normal

Adapting to Change

Communication in a Small Church Setting

It's All About People

The New Church Website

Finding Your Uniqueness

Creating Your Communication Strategy

How to Build Relationships

The Influence of Social Media Influencers

Church Marketing Essentials

Thinking Innovation

Long-Term Impacts of Coronavirus on the Church

Creativity Through the Coronavirus Pandemic

A Church Communications Podcast for a Global Pandemic

Easter's Over, Now What?

What to Do When Your Attendance Drops on Easter

Partnering with Your Community

Quieting the Noise

Knowing Who You Are

Advertising Easter

Easter Branding

Why Easter?

Hello, 2019!

Your Questions & Our Answers

Creating a Communications Strategy for the New Year

Stop Announcing Everything

Finding Your Audience

Consistency in Branding

Big Sundays

Measuring the Success of Big Events

Getting Guests to Return

Communicating with Guests & Members

Social Media

Trends & Relevancy

An Introduction

Blog Posts

Just Announced: Three Opportunities to Attend a Church Communications and Administration Workshop with Church Juice

Church Bulletins are Awful

Check Out This Mentorship Program for Church Communicators

How Podcasting Can Help Your Church Build Relationships

3 Practices to Help Prevent Volunteer Burnout In Your Church

Here Are 5 Grant Programs Your Church Needs to Check Out

Your Ultimate Calendar of Church Communicator and Leadership Conferences

Your Guide to Success: Creating a Church Communications Matrix

Planning Easter Follow Up

6 Ways to Help You Master Last Minute Easter Communications (Checklist included)

How to Use Social Media for Outreach Events

The Gospel and Good Deeds

Planning an Outreach Event? Start Here

What is Your Church Known For in the Community?

4 Practical Questions for Crafting Effective Outreach Messaging

What is Church Juice?

We Need to Reframe Our Communications

Is This the End of Email as We Know It?

The Best and Worst Times for Your Church to Post on Social Media

Cut Through The Noise by Defining the "Why" of Your Church's Social Media

Small Sips: The Future

4 Ways to Maximize Your Christmas Service

Small Sips: Marketing Mistakes

Small Sips: Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Small Sips: Hello, Introverts!

3 Major Paradigm Shifts and Cultural Changes for Church Leaders

Book Club Reading: Less Chaos. Less Noise. by Kem Meyer

Church Communications: It's a Team Sport

Small Sips: Who Killed Ben?

Small Sips: Oh Look, More AI

Small Sips: AI + Creativity?

Small Sips: Horror Movies?

Communications is Connection

Small Sips: Promised Land?

Top 5 Unmissable Episodes from Last Season on the Church Juice Podcast

Coming to the Pacific Northwest: Church Communications and Administration Summit

Analyzing Elon Musk's Twitter-to-X Rebrand and Its Lessons for Church Communications

Engaging Church Communication: Help Shape the Future with Your Feedback!

Small Sips: Your July roundup of news and resources for church communicators.

Small Sips: Your June roundup of news and resources for church communicators.

When to Say Goodbye: Tips for Leaving a Ministry Position with Dignity

5 Key Skills for Effective Church Communicators

Unlocking the Power of Texting: 3 Mistakes to Avoid for Effective Church Communication

3 Ways Church Communicators Can Utilize Volunteers

4 Ways to Help Your Church Step Into Mission This Summer

Get a Behind-The-Scenes Look at Your Favorite Church Communications Podcast: Live Podcast Coming Soon

Get Inspired: 8 Churches and Ministries to Follow on Instagram Today

Impactful Social Media for Church: A Comprehensive Guide for Communicators

3 Reasons You Should Join Our Book Club for Church Communicators

14 Church Communication Resources to Save You Time and Money

Small Sips: Your March roundup of news and resources for church communicators.

2 Essential Ways to Help you Tell More and Better Stories

20 of the Best Church Websites in 2023

Next Webinar | Church Websites: 7 Helpful Ways to Guide You to Greatness

10 of the Best Church Website Builders to Help You Create a Fantastic Site

6 Church Website Design Best Practices to Make You Feel Like a Professional

Small Sips: Your February roundup of news and resources for church communicators.

How Town Hall Meetings Can Help You Lead Well Through Change

Small Sips: Your January roundup of news and resources for church communicators.

Hope Fulfilled: A Christmas Devotional for Church Communicators

Last Minute: A Christmas Devotional for Church Communicators

4 Easy Ways to Build Better Community With Your Volunteers

Book Review: MetaChurch Provides a Path for Churches to Embrace Technology

We're Bringing the Church Communications Community Together for a Live Podcast Stream

October's Small Sips | A monthly roundup of news and resources for church communicators

What's Your Number One Work-Related Concern for 2023?

Three Creative Ways to Connect Better with Our Audiences Online

How Your Church Can Embrace the Future of Digital Communications

Learn How You Can Easily Plan a Yearly Sermon Calendar

September's Small Sips | A monthly roundup of news and resources for church communicators

One Way to Quickly Influence Your Church's Communications For Good

How One Ministry Used an $8,000 Grant From Church Juice

5 Ways to Help Your Church's Donors Feel Valued

Grow Your Church Communication Skills With These Helpful Project Management Fundamentals

How Your Ministry Can Receive a Free Communications and Marketing Grant

August's Small Sips | A monthly roundup of news and resources for church communicators

5 Project Management Systems to Consider for Your Church

Why a Project Management System is Valuable for Church Communications

The Ultimate List of 21 Completely Free Stock Photo Sites for Churches

Upgrade Your Church Social Media Feed With These Free Tools

How Churches Can Effectively Work With Marketing Agencies

20 Best Amazon Prime Day Deals for Church Communicators

How I Change My Perspective: The essential need to escape the ordinary

Church Juice is Headed to Inspire and We Hope to See You There!

Great Resources to Help You Manage Ministry Burnout

Ideas to Help You Identify, Manage, and Prevent Ministry Burnout

6 Simple Ways to Build a Healthy Culture for Your Church Staff

[Earth Day] Practical Ways Your Church Can Communicate a Care for Creation

How Our Team Solved Its Internal Communication Needs With These Tools

Practical Advice to Help You Improve Your Church's Internal Communications

What We're Reading in 2022

You Can't Afford to Miss These Four Tools

Improving Your Church Communications Efforts While Working Remotely

Small Sips | January 4, 2022

Small Sips | November 8

5 Tips For Church Leaders Getting Started With a Side Hustle

Small Sips | November 1

Small Sips | October 25

Here are 5 Must-Have Tools for Building Community Online

The Downside of Social Media, and What Your Church Can Do About It

Life-Saving Grace

Leaders Have Two Jobs

What matters? How to capture accurate live stream data

Small Sips | August 2, 2021

Finding Joy

Who Are You Talking To?

How to Create an Environment of Honest Communication Among Your Staff

Revenge of the Nerds

5 Ways to Optimize Your Church's Giving Page

How to Develop a Central Hub for Your Communication Strategy

The Importance of Gratitude in the Midst of a Pandemic

Post by the Numbers: A Guide to Insights on Social Media

It’s How You Say It

We Accidentally Restarted the Puppet Ministry

Here Are 5 Books Every Church Communicator Must Read in 2021

10 of the Best Church Websites in 2021

For $10 More

Start Small, Reach Big

State of Church Communications in 2021

3 Statistics for Better Communication

The Most-Read Articles of 2020

How to Maximize Your Christmas Worship in 2020

How to Engage With Young People on Social Media

The Church Communicator's Toolkit

Diffusing Tensions on Social Media

Back to Basics: Social Media 101

Back to Basics: Keep your members connected with these four strategies

Back to Basics: Guest Follow-Up

Back to Basics: Church Websites 101

Using Digital Platforms to Take a Stand

Mental Health Tips for Church Communicators

How to Use Text Message Marketing to Reach Your Church Community

Worthy of Repeating

Easy Ways Your Church Can Use Content Marketing to Reach People

“Sorry to See You Go”: What unsubscribing has taught me about church emails

Be Our Guest

How to Have a Better Website in One Cup of Coffee

How to Have Better Stage Announcements

Planning Center is the Solution

Don't DIY

What AAR We Doing, Exactly?

Evaluating Your Church Database

Top 5 Summer Connection Ideas for Kids (Social Distancing Edition)

Re-engaging Your Community in the Wake of COVID-19

What a Year!

Roundtable Discussion: Racial Reconciliation and Church Communications

Dignifying the Digital Ordinary

Communicating in Light of Racial Injustice

Communicating Your Care For Mental Health

What the World Needs Now

Where Your Church Should Spend More Time Communicating

Church Communications During a Global Pandemic

Reflecting on Four Years of Church Communications Through the Lens of COVID-19

Guidelines for West Michigan Places of Worship as the COVID-19 Pandemic Continues

Sustainability in Worship

Coming Back Together After Coronavirus

Creating Community While Physical Distancing

Keeping People Engaged Online

Best Practices for Using Social Media During COVID-19

Holy Week at Home

Connecting Without Live Streaming

Car Keys, Coronavirus, and Church Communications

Caring For Your Community & Congregation During COVID-19

Adjusting to the New Reality of Social Distancing and Remote Work

Resources from Church Juice To Help Your Church Through The Coronavirus Pandemic

Zoom Tips for Newbies

Resources For Your Church During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Communicating Clearly: How to Handle Coronavirus at Your Church

FAQs and Resources for Reaching the Special Needs Community

If You Don't Caption Videos, You're Missing Out Big Time

Including Everyone: How to incorporate inclusive language for families with special needs

Appropriate Language About People with Disabilities

Outreach to People With Special Needs

Use Your Words: Best practices for communication with a person with special needs

10 Ways Churches Can Partner With Mental Health Services

How to Measure the Success of Offline Marketing for an Outreach Event

20 of the Best Church Websites in 2020

Top 5 Articles of 2019

Be Prepared: How to Develop an Effective Communication Policy for Important Updates

5 Ways to Refresh Your Community Marketing Materials

A Third Kind of Marketing

Don't Build a Communications Policy

How Stephen King Helps Me Write for Church

How to Overcome the Challenges of a Portable Church

The Backstage Pass to Communication Coordination

3 Steps to a Weekly E-Bulletin

You Should Start a Weekly E-Bulletin

3 Quick Social Media Tips for Your Church

The Words We Use Matter

How to Create the Perfect Church Website

Church Juice Celebrates 10 Years of Energizing Church Communications

Say it Like You Mean It

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? A Guide to Reaching Out to Your Community

Communications Isn't Sexy

Step by Step Process to Keep People Engaged Through the Summer

The Case for Apps

No, Your Church Doesn't Need a Custom App

3 Ways to Reach Families with Special Needs in Your Church

Fundraising in your Community

Should You Be a Church Communications Specialist or Generalist?

You're Not the Boss of Me

A Crowd Attracts a Crowd

Post What You Preach

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Clarifying Your Message

We'd Love Your Feedback

Talk the Talk: Basics To Developing A Communications Strategy

“But No One Told Me!” Tips on Improving Staff Communication

5 Places to Listen For Better Leadership

The 4 Essential Social Media Questions

How to Utilize Facebook Groups

What's Your Platform? Finding the Right Social Media

Choosing a Facebook Cover Photo

Snappy Solutions

Instagram and the Visual Web

4 Things Churches Need to Stop Posting on Social Media

The McDonald's Method

Good Websites Remove Barriers

2019 Design Trends Forecast

15 of the Best Church Websites for 2019

Go Live or Go Home: Streaming Strategy for Small Churches

A Checklist for Your Ministry’s Online Strategy in 2019

Here's How to Communicate to the Right Crowd

Top 5 for 2018

How Much Time Is Enough Time? Best Practices for Church Event Timelines

How to Run an Effective Team Planning Meeting

Getting Strategic With Your Church Blog

Why Branding?

Brand Guide Examples

Who Are You?

Logos Don't Have To Be Literal

Branding is Not a Bad Word

Why Your Church Needs a Brand

What is Branding?

After the Event

The Best Form of Marketing

Sharing Church Photos Online

The Real Mission of Big Events

Planning Your Fall Outreach: Think Follow-Up First

5 Things We Do That Fail at Welcoming a Guest Back to Our Church

5 Ways to Follow-Up Digitally

What to Expect When You're Expecting (To Visit a Church)

Here's How to Get More Guests to Turn in the Connection Card

Your Website is Your First Impression

Is Your Church Guest-Friendly?

Low Hanging Fruit

6 Proven Ways to Improve Your Church Communications

What Younger Generations Want the Church to Know About Social Media

How To Write Terrible Church Emails in 7 Steps

Getting Real: Reaching Your Audience with Storytelling

How to Have Better Announcements by Sunday

Before You Ditch The Paper Bulletin Consider This

Is the Church Bulletin a Sacred Cow?

3 Things to Do Each Week In Your Communications

Marketing Is Not a Bad Word

I Notcied a Typo inn the Bullitin: Let's Talk About Making Mistakes

Juicy Website Winner 2018: Hope Church NYC

The Power of Facebook Events

6 Social Media Tips for Your Church

5 Ways to Use MailChimp for Church Marketing

Congratulations to This Year's Juicy Winners!

The Reason Your New Process Won’t Work

The Juicys Award Show

Mobile Websites vs. Mobile Apps: Which One Is Better?

5 Key People You Need to Create a New Church Website

A Few Ways to Make Your Church Website More Effective

What Makes a Good Church Website?

5 Things Every Church Website Must Have

How to Post a Sermon Online and Reach an Audience

This Month: All About Church Websites

5 Reasons We Do The Juicys

5 Strategies for Better Communication in 2018

How to Ruin a Sermon Illustration

Introducing The Juicys

Who is Generation Z?

3 Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Church Website

How to Communicate in a Post-Christian Culture

What's Your Communication Temperature?

5 Tips to Creating Landing Pages for Your Church Website

Do Churches Understand the Digital Experience?

Stop Controlling Everything

Raising the Evangelistic Temperature

The Communicator

Are Your Sunday Services Guest-Friendly?

How to Achieve Your Church's Vision with Volunteers

Facebook: From Calendar to Community

Making the Audience the Hero of Your Story

Why Every Pastor Should Blog

You’ve Got This: A new book for church communicators

Hosting a Legal Super Bowl Party

The State of Church Communications

Best Growth Strategy For Your Online Audience

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

Strengths and Weaknesses

There’s More to Growing Online than Social Media

Should You Start a Facebook Group?

2017's Most Popular Church Juice Articles

5 Steps to Becoming a Better Editor

18 of the Best Church Websites for 2018

4 Reasons We Created a Facebook Group

6 Tips for Taking Better Pictures

10 Last-Minute Christmas Planning Ideas

Officing in the Big City

Follow the Wi-Fi

The Power of Being Homeless

What are Your Church Website Photos Communicating?

Social Media Sizing Guide 2018

Getting Communications Buy-In

From Visitor to Thriving Member

Communication During a Tragedy: Lessons from Equifax

Planning a Successful Christmas Service

Responding to Negative Facebook Comments

Does Your Facebook Page Make a Good Front Door?

Great Communication Matters

4 Ways to Leverage Your Church's Online Presence

Welcome Church Juice's New Leader

10 Ways to Intentionally Thank Your Church Volunteers

Our Next Step Forward

Taking on PowerPoint

Transitions + Thanks

The Good and Bad of Stock Photography

Pokémon Go and Your Church: Finding the Rational Response

Navigating Facebook News Feed Changes

Communications Project Checklist

Communications Takes Courage

Free Ebook: Church Graphic Design 101

Why Communications Plans Fail

Church Website Spring Cleaning

Mother’s Day Planning for Your Church

Creating Better Email Design

Benefits of Using a Professional Email System

Easter Debriefing

A Strong Church Brand Keeps People Engaged

Fine-Tuning Your Easter Planning

Uber Logo Change: What Churches Can Learn

Measuring Success and Brand Unity: 2 Lessons from Coca-Cola

Content Marketing Basics for Churches

Top Posts of 2015

Balancing Christmas Tradition with Creativity

Last Minute Christmas Preparation

First Presbyterian Church Douglasville is a Juicys Winner - Denominational Change

Memorial Presbyterian Church is a Juicys Winner - Magazine

Gashland Evangelical Presbyterian Church is a Juicys Winner - Missions Display

Heyward Street Church is a Juicys Winner - Branding

Fairborn UMC is a Juicys Winner - Social Media Strategy

Beyond The Call to Action

Starting in Church Communications

4 Ways to Eliminate Culture Killers

Common Church Communications Mistakes

The Juicys Fifth Anniversary

Storytelling

Modern Church Website Design

Why Images Matter

Understanding What You Communicate

Repurposing Your Church Content

Branding Beyond The Logo

Evaluating Your Church Website

6 Strategies for Great Leadership

Church Communications Baseline

Church Easter Planning

Easter and Church Websites

Vision Leads Communication

Internal Church Communications

Mindsets That Will Block Church Website Success

Top Posts of 2014

Personal Church Communication

Church Christmas Planning

Harris Creek Baptist is a Juicys Winner

Resurrection Houston is a Juicys Winner

Knox-Met is a Juicys Winner

Broadway Church is a Juicys Winner

A Church Customer Service Lesson in the Mobile Payment Wars

Committing to Church Communications

Common Church Website Mistakes

Free Ebook - Twitter For Your Ministry

Investing in Email

Why The Juicys?

Debunking Church Marketing Myths

New Church Juice Website

6 Ways to Improve Your Church Twitter Account

Why Your Church Needs a Good Website

The Church Should Function Like A Startup

Beyond Greeters: Welcoming is a Church Wide Value

Memorable Brand Identity

No Social Media Experts and Staying Committed

Twitter’s New Design and Features

Website Spring Cleaning Tips

Welcoming Visitors During A Church Service

Empowering Brand Advocates

Improving Word of Mouth Marketing

Creating a Meaningful Survey

Communicating Your Promise

Facebook Strategy

Church Communications in 2014

Consistency in 11 Years of Communication

Sharing Christmas

Measuring Return on Objectives

The Grove is a Juicys Winner

Bethel CRC is a Juicys Winner

OneLife Church is a Juicys Winner

Elmbrook Church is a Juicys Winner

The Church at Severn Run is a Juicys Winner

What Makes A Good Church Website?

Free Fonts and How to Use (Not Abuse) Them

Ways To Improve Your Church Bulletin

3 Web Design Elements You Should Know

Launching A New Logo

The Power of Language

The Juicys 2013

Vision, Mission and Organizational Goals

Picking A Website Template

Streamlining Church Communications

Copying and the Creative Challenge

Mistakes Happen In Social Media

Comic Sans, Papyrus and 4 Font Lessons

5 Social Media Improvements You Can Make Today

Church Websites: Catering to Visitors

Foundations for Measuring Success

Service Transitions

Communications Isn’t Just For Big Churches

Personal Preferences

Responsive Website Design

Avoiding Experiments at Christmas

Good Websites Remove Barriers

Broadmoor Baptist is The Juicys Communications Church of the Year (Larger)

Westbury UMC is The Juicys Communications Church of the Year (Smaller)

Willowdale CRC is The Juicys Communications Church of the Year (Smaller) Runner Up

Long Hollow is The Juicys Communications Church of the Year (Larger) Runner Up

Consistency in Program Logos

Choosing A Facebook Cover Photo

Five New Facebook Tools For Admins

3 Quick Social Media Tips

Stealing Logos

A Good Name

Pinterest for Churches (Part 2: Strategy)

Pinterest for Churches (Part 1: The Basics)

A Modern Christmas Pageant

The Benefits of Good Design Go Beyond Something Looking Cool

Google+ for Churches

Church Set Designs Can Send the Wrong Message

Know Video Basics First

Putting Personal Preferences Aside

Life Baptist Church is The Juicys Communications Church of the Year (Smaller)

Level Ground is The Juicys Communications Church of the Year (Smaller) Runner Up

First CRC of Grand Haven is The Juicys Make It Happen Church of the Year

ChangePoint is The Juicys Communications Church of the Year (Larger)

Church Graphic Design

Logo Change Has to Happen All at Once

Facebook Tagging for Organizations

Website Welcome Videos

Do Multiple Worship Styles Say "We're Not Sure What Kind of Church We Are?"

Over-Promising and Under-Delivering

The Power of Quality

The Chick-fil-A Language Upgrade

Finding the Right Church Juice Logo

Guidelines for Song Lyric Slides

Best Buy Isn't Geeked Out By God Squad

Odd Pairings

God Was Rejecting My Worship (Part 2)

God Was Rejecting My Worship (Part 1)

Making the Most of VBS Momentum

Is It Okay to Block Someone From Your Church's Facebook Page?

Marketing Isn't a Bad Word If You Think About It the Right Way

Planning for a Medical Emergency

Tithing Sermons

The World’s Best Chips and Salsa

Handling Criticism

Lessons From Comcast Customer Service

Website Wireframing: Getting Organized