I got an email recently from Freddy Villarreal, Tele-Coaching Participant and Lead Pastor of Freedom Life Church in Virginia, about how their local news (and then CNN) ran a story about the Desperate Sex Lives sermon series they did in February. Here’s the video: Freddy – great job representing your church and the Church on-camera! I’m not a fan of … Read More
Maximizing Easter Around the World
One of the greatest benefits of using technology to equip church leaders is that distances that were insurmountable just a few years ago are crossed instantaneously today via the internet. The Church Leader Insights Family has been growing more and more internationally over the last couple of years. It’s exciting to see how the systems and principles that we teach … Read More
Count What Counts – CLI Newsletter Rewind
One of the best parts of being a member of the “Church Leader Insights Family” is that each month you receive the CLI Newsletter, packed with the best church leadership content I can find. Here’s an article from Steven Furtick that was included in this month’s newsletter (in case you missed it): COUNT WHAT COUNTS “Here’s the distinction: it’s good … Read More
Communicating Your Big Day Evangelism Strategy to Your Church (Free Download)
A number of you have already let me know how my new book Ignite has helped you and your church. That’s always encouraging to me, so keep ’em coming! Feel free to use the “Ask Nelson” button on the right side of this blog to send me your story. One such email that I recently received from Clark Frailey, member … Read More
Maximize Easter – Sample Invite Tools from The Journey
Thanks so much to all of you who joined me last week for the Maximizing Easter 2010 Webinars! I mentioned that I’d share some sample invitation tools that we have used at The Journey, so here they are (right-click and choose “Save As…” to download now): 2009 Samples: Easter Mailer #1 – Front (PDF) Easter Mailer #1 – Back (PDF) … Read More
How Ignite Helped Set an Attendance Record
Wow! I’ve been blown away by all of the response to my newest book Ignite: How to Spark Immediate Growth in Your Church, but this one is pretty amazing. I recently received the following email from Jonathan Bilima, Lead Pastor of Kairos Church in Riverside, California. Jonathan is in my brand new Tele-Coaching Network and here’s the Ignite testimony he … Read More
How to Invest Your Advertising & Promotion Budget (Part 2)
Last week I shared one of the most common mistakes that churches make when it comes to allocating the annual advertising/promotion budget (click here to read that post). Today I want to share Advertising Mistake #2… Advertising Mistake #2: Spending your advertising funds on “branding” messages without a clear call to action. “Branding” is a great word for two groups: … Read More
How to Invest Your Advertising & Promotion Budget (Part 1)
I shared some thoughts on how to set up your church’s budget a while back (click here for that post), and today I’d like to give you the first of two “hard-learned” tips about how to spend that budget. I want to address specifically how you spend the line item in your church’s budget marked “advertising” or “promotion” or whatever … Read More
New Maximizing Easter E-Book & Webinars!
If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you already know that I’m convinced that NOW is one of the greatest times in our lifetime to reach more people and grow our churches! Combine that with the fact that Easter is the most likely day of the year for unchurched people to attend your church, and Easter 2010 has tremendous … Read More
A Record-Breaking Big Day Report!
I‘ve found that February is one of the best times each year to reach new people, so ’tis the season for Big Days! I just received a great report from Jamey Stuart, Senior Pastor of Believers Church in Chesapeake, Virginia. Jamey is a two-time coaching alumni, an advanced coaching grad and one of our great CLI-certified trainers – he gave … Read More