Ekklesia 360

Samantha Decker

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The Best Ways to Fundraise for Your Summer Mission Trips

Posted by Samantha Decker

One of the biggest hurdles churches face is how to ask for money. Maybe because church leaders recognize that in asking for money, even when it's for something as important as furthering the mission of the church, they're essentially asking members to...

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Topics: Best Practices

How to Get Members Engaged and Active on Your Church Website

Posted by Samantha Decker

How are you using your church website to get your members more active and engaged? Is it a tool that can help mature their faith and become a part of their lives? If it’s not, don’t you think it should be?

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Topics: Best Practices, Strategy

[On-Demand Webinar] The Power of Ekklesia 360 and FellowshipOne

Posted by Samantha Decker

If you're involved at all with church communications and administration, chances are you've dreamed about simplifying your processes. It can be exhausting to monitor different software solutions, enter things twice, and just keep everything organized.

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Topics: Best Practices

8 Tips to Create the Best VBS Registration Form

Posted by Samantha Decker

The VBS registration process can be tough.

With paper, you risk the chance of lost forms somewhere in the process. From the parent filling out the form to the person manually entering the list of registrants, there is no guarantee.

And, while online...

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Topics: Best Practices, Featured

How One Church's Website Redesign Attracted One Million Visitors

Posted by Samantha Decker

Last year, Eagle Brook Church reached one million interactions on their website and became the largest church in the state of Minnesota. How did they achieve this?

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5 Complaints About Online Giving Tools (and How to Solve Them)

Posted by Samantha Decker

As church communicator, you know getting buy-in to online giving can be a difficult task. Even though you know about all the perks online giving has to offer, it can be hard to convince others. This is especially true for those who are resistant to...

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Topics: Giving

Inspiring Ways to Design the Missions Page on Your Website

Posted by Samantha Decker

There is an excellent chance that much of the reason your church exists is to reach others outside of the church walls. Most pastors and church leaders would agree that doing so is simply obeying Jesus’ instructions to, "Go and make disciples of all...

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Topics: Design, Best Practices, Ministry Insight

5 Metrics to Master When Measuring Your Online Giving

Posted by Samantha Decker

Christian ministries get an overall C- for our online giving homework. And it’s not because the dog ate it or aliens abducted your paperwork. Christians are notorious for being behind when it comes to how we run businesses and church offices.

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Topics: Giving, Ministry Insight

​5 Ways to Use Your Free Easter Graphics

Posted by Samantha Decker

It's a well-known fact that many people only attend church on two holidays - Christmas and Easter. In fact, during the Easter season, many churches have twice as many people in attendance as they normally do. While these well-known truths might make...

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Topics: Design, Featured

An Open Letter to the Stressed-Out Church Communicator

Posted by Samantha Decker

To our dear church communicators,

We love working with you. You all are some of the kindest, most dedicated, sharpest tacks in the church leadership box. You promote the purpose of the church daily in your work. You feel the pulse of the church at all...

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Topics: Best Practices, Featured