Hello! Welcome to the Church Communications & Administration Summit.
Slides from the Summit
You can download the slides from today's Church Communications & Administration Summit! This page will be updated throughout the day to give you the latest slides.
Session One - Project Management Fundamentals
Session Two (and Three) - Creating a Communication Strategy
Schedule Rundown
9:00am - Doors open, coffee reception
9:15 - Welcome, Session 1: Project Management Fundamentals
10:25 - Break
10:35 - Masterclass (Part I): Create a Communication Plan
11:20 - Roundtable Discussion
11:45 - Lunch
12:30pm - Masterclass (Part II): Create a Communication Plan
1:40 - Break
1:50 - Helpful Tools, Resources, Services
2:05 - Q&A
2:45 - Closing Prayer
Do you have questions for us to discuss?
You can add your question (and view others' questions) throughout the day, and we'll get to them during our Q&A session this afternoon. Or, ya know, just write them down.
Other helpful tools and church communication resources
Start working on your own church communication strategy with our guidebook (free, of course). The guidebook walks you through all the planning and preparation to create your own well-crafted strategy.
Download the Church Communications Strategy Guidebook
Project Management Fundamentals
- Webinar: Grow Your Church Communication Skills With These Project Management Fundamentals
- Article: What AAR We Doing, Exactly? (Evaluating after an event)
- More About Personas: Usability.gov
- Putting Personas To Work: Adobe.com
- Tool/Template to Create Personas: HubSpot.com
Stop announcing everything.
- Podcast Episode (Season 1, Episode 9)
- Article: Stop Announcing Everything
- Article: One Way to Quickly Influence Your Church's Communications for Good
- Template (Google Sheets): Creative Brief
My Favorite Tools
Content Creation & Editing
- Google Docs (Free)
- Grammarly (Free)
- Headline Analyzer (Discount)
- Capitalize My Title (Free)
- Canva (Free)
- Adobe Express (Free)
- Article: Stock Photos (Free)
- Article: 14 Church Communication Resources to Save You Time and Money
Project Management
Church Management Solutions
Websites
- The Church Co
- Ministry Designs
- Faith Connector
- Subsplash
- Some ChMS includes website options
- Article: 20 of the Best Church Websites of 2023
- Article: 10 of the Best Church Website Builders