Without you and your work in your churches, we would not be here. We are so thankful for you and grateful that it is our job to partner with churches and help them grow their ministry online. Each member of the staff here at Ekklesia 360 is a part of a local church, but we also got to spend the past year being a part of the growth of your church, too.
And that's something to celebrate!
We are so blessed that we get to spend our time working with churches to help y'all grow online. Here's a recap of some highlights of the past 12 months -- and a couple hints about what's to come in the next 12.
New Blog and New Free Resources
In 2015, we continued and expanded our efforts to truly be your ministry partner. We migrated our blog (you're reading it right now!) over to our new website. It's easier for you to read and it's easier for us to make sure you're getting quality content and relevant information.
We also released new eBooks. Have you seen them all? Did we mention they are free?
- The Church Communicator's Survival Guide: 7 Tools to Use Every Day
- Learn how to refine your internal processes, manage projects, start and maintain a content calendar, and Thrive -- not just survive as a Church Communicator.
- Six Steps to Powerful Church Mission Statements
- Step-by-step instructions, worksheets, and pro-tips for getting the room to agree as you navigate the tricky waters of establishing a church Mission Statement.
- Getting Your Website Back on Track
- Understand how your church website got "off track," justify the investment to your pastor, and take the 5 steps needed to get the website your church truly wants.
- Multi-Site Church Websites
- Learn the 3 primary models your multi-site church website could take and see over 40 examples of the features and layouts you can have on your website.
New e360 Themes Released
We strive to be on the cutting edge, so you can focus on keeping up with your congregation. We want you to be able to relax and let us help you in the technology world. Let us keep up with tech and design trends for you. Here's the great website themes we released in 2015.
- Spurgeon
- As website technology begins to take features for granted, this new theme focuses on animations to help build viewer engagement.
- Augustine
- This theme focuses on video and the ability to deliver different content to different audiences -- so you can focus on helping your viewers in their journey.
- Strong
- This theme uses an easy-to-navigate and spacious layout with bold buttons to maximize engagement along with powerful images and modern design elements.
- ten Boom
- This theme has a modern design with responsive menus, allowing visitors to easily dig deeper -- no matter where they are.
Ekklesia 360 Updates
Already an Ekklesia 360 customer and not ready to re-design? We made improvements for you, too!
- Integrations Galore
- To quote our account manager, "It went from a bagillion dollars to something reasonable." When you ask for features, we listen. In 2015, our team spent a lot of time making your website work better with the other tools your church uses.
- Training Videos
- These videos provide easy-to-follow visual steps for Ekklesia 360 CMS users to effectively accomplish their goals for their website.
- Ekklesia 360 Help Site
- Over the summer we launched our new and improved Help site. You can search for information related to what you're trying to do, or browse articles by topic.
- Insights - Analytics Dashboard
- With the new Analytics Dashboard, our engineering team hopes that churches will learn how to display their web content to achieve better ministry results.
- Small Groups Module
- It’s easier than ever before to connect visitors and other congregants to meaningful community within your church!
- Other New Ministry Focused Layouts
- Visit our portfolio to see which ones will help your church the most.
Get Excited for 2016
Not only have we released a lot of great features and helpful blog posts, we're already knee-deep into the planning for next year. We've got new products on the horizon, new Ministry Focused Layouts to make giving and volunteering more meaningful than ever, and a calendar full of blogging and new eBooks.
If you have a blog or eBook topic you'd like to see us address, leave us a question in the comments below!
