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Why Your Church Should Use Weebly Instead of WordPress

Last Updated November 27, 2015 by Matt 6 Comments

Since 2009 I have recommended that churches use WordPress to create their websites in a cost-effective and easy way. But I am now changing my stance after actually working with clients and helping them manage their websites (sometimes watching over their shoulder). This is what people are actually looking for: Drag and drop, click and edit […]

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WordPress Church Website Tips: Google Docs

Last Updated February 5, 2010 by Matt 1 Comment

A little while ago I wrote a series about using WordPress to build a church website. Since then, we’ve come up with a quick and easy solution for posting our worship team schedule. We have a lady who coordinates and schedules our various people who assist during Sunday mornings. She wanted to be able to […]

Filed Under: Websites Tagged With: church website, free, google docs, wordpress

Signing Up with HostGator

Last Updated December 25, 2009 by Matt 2 Comments

[box type=”info”]Use the Coupon Code “ChurchWebsite” when you sign up for website hosting through HostGator and you will get a 25% discount from HostGator. That also makes sure I get credited for referring you. Thanks![/box] I have had quite a few people make their own church websites as a result of reading my series. I’m […]

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The Perfect Church Email Solution?

Last Updated September 29, 2009 by Matt 15 Comments

So, I thought this would be easy. I’m looking for a church email list management solution that I thought would be pretty simple. But apparently the features I want aren’t that easy to find. Here’s what I’m looking for: The ability to send emails to different segments of a master list (youth, prayer requests, announcements, […]

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WordPress 2.8 – Widgets!

Last Updated June 12, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

Sorry for the nerdy post today. We’ll get back to youth ministry next week. WordPress 2.8 released yesterday, and this upgrade addresses one of the biggest shortfalls in WordPress: the widget interface. It used to be possible to see all of your sidebars and widgets at once and drag and drop your widgets straight from […]

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How I Built a Church Website for Free: Conclusion

Last Updated April 23, 2009 by Matt 1 Comment

[box type=”info”]Use the Coupon Code “ChurchWebsite” when you sign up for website hosting through HostGator and you will get a 25% discount from HostGator. That also makes sure I get credited for referring you. Thanks! Find out more about HostGator.[/box] Hopefully people will find my series on building a church website for free (or pretty […]

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How I Built a Church Website for Free: Free Google Tools

Last Updated April 21, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

[box type=”info”]Use the Coupon Code “ChurchWebsite” when you sign up for website hosting through HostGator and you will get a 25% discount from HostGator. That also makes sure I get credited for referring you. Thanks! Find out more about HostGator.[/box] When trying to make a highly functional website at no cost, signing up for a […]

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Church WordPress Plugins

Last Updated March 23, 2009 by Matt 10 Comments

In order to make the most out of your church website using WordPress, you are going to need to install a few plugins. Plugins are ways to extend the functionality of the core funtcions of WordPress and make your website do exactly what you want it to do. Installing plugins is now extremely easy. In […]

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New Free WordPress Theme Added

Last Updated March 20, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

I added another free theme on my Picking a WordPress Theme post. You might want to check it out. As happens sometimes in life, you don’t do things as early as you had hoped. I didn’t get my next post in the How I Built a Church Website for Free series until late today, and […]

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BlueHost.com Offering $3.95 a Month Web Hosting

Last Updated March 19, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

If you’ve been following the series I’ve been doing on how to create a church website at minimal cost, you have noticed that I recommend BlueHost.com for the needs of most churches. Well, I’m not sure how long ago this changed or how long it will last, but right now BlueHost.com is offering web hosting […]

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Best Youth Ministry Books

These are the books that will completely change the way you think about youth ministry, for the better. Links are to my reviews of each book.

Teen 2.0 by Robert Epstein

A psychologist makes you question every assumption you have about adolescence.

Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry by Andrew Root

Why build relationships? Root’s answer will surprise you.

Best Youth Ministry Books: Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher

Yesterday I finally read Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher, and since I’m one of the latecomers to the conversation I won’t summarize the book too much. Marko has linked to tons of reviews on his blog if you are interested in more in-depth summaries. If you are fairly in-tune with a lot of the […]

Best Youth Ministry Books: Postmodern Youth Ministry

Postmodern Youth Ministry by Tony Jones is the book I would recommend to youth ministers if they could just read one youth ministry book. I first read the book in my Foundations and Practices of Youth Ministry class at John Brown University. After the preface to the book there is a page titled, “The Day […]

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