Church Consulting – Redefined (Part 4)

Posted by Anthony D. Coppedge in B2C - Business To Church on Jul 9th, 2009 | no responses

Over the years, I’ve found a number of consistent patterns and needs of churches and ministry organizations. Several of these have happened with such regularity that I created specific services to meet these needs.

Social Media Training & Consulting

Embracing the digital landscape has quickly become a motivation for churches to understand Social Networking. Unlike traditional media, social networking is a two-way conversation with people who come into contact with your ministries – in real time. As the author of the E-book “The Reason Your Church Must Twitter“, I’ve defined just one of the many technologies and social platforms impacting our culture today. Well beyond Twitter, I help churches understand the big-picture perspective of measuring, tracking and, most importantly, engaging with people in real community online. Churches can’t mistake Social Networks as a fad or a trend; they’re more than the new equivalent of e-mail and will continue to rapidly expand and bring people together. Let me spend an hour or two in a phone consultation with your church, offer a training presentation for your church to use in-house and provide the right strategies for connecting social networks with your communications efforts.

Media & Communications Consulting

I spend a good deal of my time visiting churches and reviewing their technology and communications infrastructures. From making recommendations about audio, video and lighting to thinking through the branding and marketing of churches and their ministries, the time I spend with churches always turns out to be eye-opening and beneficial. The feedback I receive from pastors the most often is that they feel as though they hired a technical consultant and got an entire church consultant instead! I’ll humbly take that praise any day!

Volunteer Technical Training

I love training church techies! No matter the size of the church, I am always able to enjoy learning about the style and flow of each church’s worship service and providing practical ways for them to take their skills to the next level. Most of what I teach is based on how to maximize your current gear, so Pastors don’t need to worry about me coming to them with a gold-plated equipment wish list! Some of my best memories have been in training techies how to communicate with their leadership, develop consistent practices, troubleshoot before things get out of control and replicate themselves to help grow their technical ministry.

Creative Team Planning

Pastors – this one’s for you! Today’s church services rely heavily on project management of all the elements that transition a church from weekend services to weekend experiences! But that isn’t taught in seminary or Bible college. Crafting creative sermons week in and week out is tough. Tying your sermon into a weekend experience is even tougher. Through my personal team training, you and your staff will learn how to prepare your weekends for context, presentation and content. Training includes combining the sermon, music, media, props, drama, print and web with a theme or metaphor and how to manage a creative meeting.

Church Tech Job Placement

If you’ve ever gone to a church job placement website, then you know how vague some churches can be in describing their technical personnel needs while other churches seem to want Superman for the job! I bridge this gap by working with churches to develop realistic and customized job descriptions that are based on the unique needs of the church. Just as important, I constantly receive resumes from techies and creative folks. Plus with my network, I’m able to keep my hand on the pulse of the church media and communications world and look for potential matches as they become available. We’ve partnered with HelpStaff.me for a simple and affordable way to bring churches and new staff members together.

It’s my desire to help churches and ministry organizations become more effective. Thanks to direction for God, I’ve refocused my efforts to be on helping people which, in turn, helps the organization. I hope that I have the chance to work with you and share the experiences I’ve had, the lessons I’ve learned from working with hundreds of churches and to encourage your ministry to be aligned with vision God has uniquely given to you.

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