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Use Facebook to Build Church Community: Share Local News and Events

We want people in our church to hang out, outside church don’t we? Sharing local news and events on your church fan page increases the opportunities for people to strengthen and build new relationships outside of Sunday morning. With declining local newspaper readership and long commutes to work, you may be your fans only source for important local news and events (outside of word of mouth of course).

 

Use Facebook to Build Church Community: Share the Sunday Morning Experience

What do I post to build community? While every church community is different, I think there are six broad categories that will help your church use Facebook to take “community” to the next level. You can build community by sharing the Sunday morning experience, start conversations, announce local news and events, publicize church events, reinforce church values and structure, and celebrate success. Today, we’re going to talk about sharing the Sunday morning experience on Facebook.

 

Facebook Helps the Church Bridge the Community Gap Between Sundays

The church is a Sunday morning organization. The church community gathers collectively on Sunday mornings (sometimes Saturdays). This makes many churches primarily Sunday morning organizations. Sundays are typically the only time that everyone meets together in one place. Even though you may meet with a smaller group throughout the week, there is a lot of [...]

 

How to Start Facebook Ministry at Your Church

Are you interested in bridging the community gap between Sundays? Reaching and serving more people in your local community? Introducing more people to the gospel? If so, you need to take a fresh look at how your church is using Facebook for ministry. Chances are, Facebook ministry is happening to some degree at your church already. Your church may have a fan page, and handful of folks are probably using it to connect and minister to their friends. Imagine what you might be able to accomplish if you put the same time, talent, and resources behind your Facebook ministry that you do for other ministries within your church…

 

Interested in Starting a Facebook Ministry at Your Church?

To get your congregation using Facebook with a Kingdom focus, it is going to require that Pastors and church leaders take leadership, and set the standard for Facebook engagement. During this free one hour webinar I’ll will help you better understand Facebook, how your personal Facebook profile can be used for ministry, and prepare you to start “Facebook Ministry” at your church when you log off.

 

 

Facebook Timeline for Church Fan Pages

The following is a presentation included in Wevival’s free webinar about Facebook Timeline for Church Fan Pages. The presentation reviews new Timeline features, explains the value to your church and provides actionable steps to optimize your fan page for the new layout. The bottom line is that Timeline provides the church an exciting new tool to share what God is doing in and through your church to change peoples’ lives.

 

What Christians Need to Know About the New Facebook Timeline Profile

Sometime in the next few weeks, your Facebook profile is going to get a serious makeover. For those of you who haven’t already upgraded to the new “Timeline” profile, Facebook is making the new profile style mandatory for all users. As of right now, only personal profiles will be affected. Like all Facebook changes, the Timeline profile will be adopted, begrudgingly by many Facebook users. There will also be a resurgence of “What was the matter with old Facebook?” posts on your Newsfeed. Rest assured, this new update will make Facebook more beautiful and meaningful.