Creating a Church Marketing Plan

This online resource from the Methodist Church takes churches through the process of creating a church marketing plan. Learn how to improve how you communicate with the people you want to reach.

Albino Killings in Africa

I just watched an eye-opening report on 20/20 about Albinoism. This aspect of the story - killings and mutilations of Tanzanians with Albinoism to sell their limbs to witchdoctors - is heartbreaking.
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Find a Missionary blog

Find a missionary blog in this directory of more than 475.

SonLight Power, inc

SonLight Power establishes electricity in poor communities as a testimony of the light Christ brings to a dark world. Neat missions strategy.

Many children unsupervised after school

29 percent of Oklahoma’s students are unsupervised after they leave school, and another 12 percent are in the care of older siblings. 41 percent of parents of children not enrolled in after-school programs would enroll their children in such a program if one were available.

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Missional hermeneutic

Brian Russell offers this guide to reading the Bible with a missional hermeneutic. The more you understand the biblical basis for missions, the better you can communicate it to others - and market missions.

Google Wave is coming!

Google Wave launches in less than 24 hours. It's a new, real-time communication platform that the web has been buzzing about since Google first announced it. It's part email, part Wiki, part instant messaging, part something we've never seen before. Does it have use within the missions community?