Telling the Story: A crash course in digital marketing for churches

Your Church Has a Story. Are You Telling It Well?
5

Sessions

Self-Paced

What you will learn

In our digital age, you might be overwhelmed by the storytelling and marketing tools at your disposal. No other time in history has seen such a rapid expansion of opportunities to communicate and connect.

Yet many churches struggle with knowing how to use digital media effectively. How can you faithfully and effectively way communicate the story of Jesus, and invite others into that story, through your church’s online presence?

During this four-hour on-demand workshop, Telling the Story: A Crash Course in Digital Marketing for Churches, you’ll learn how to fundamentally shift the way you think about digital media and implement your own marketing program—in a way that is responsive to the trends and challenges of communicating in a hyper-connected world.

Shift the way you think about digital media and implement your own marketing program—in a way that is responsive to the trends and challenges of communicating in a hyper-connected world.

In Telling the Story: A crash course in digital marketing for churches, you'll experience hands-on training and practical wisdom that includes:

  • A theological framework for digital marketing
  • The value and necessity of digital marketing in the 21st century
  • How to identify and implement mission-specific digital tools
  • How to access and analyze website traffic and performance data—and put it to work for you
  • How to evaluate the quality of a church website
  • Simple strategies to show up on search engines like Google and Bing
  • Approaches to social media that build community—WITHOUT devolving into hostility and sensationalism
  • What the goals of a church website should be

Tuition includes on-demand access to the workshop recording and a private group in the Faith+Lead Learning Lab to connect and share with ministry peers.

Course Agenda

Katie Langston, director of digital strategy for Faith+Lead, shares how and why you should pay attention to creating professional websites that allow people to get to know you better, and develop high-value digital content that communicates the gospel in your context.
Kris Rolls, mission developer of All Saints in Holland, Mich., shares a theological account for marketing with empathy.
Ryan Panzer, author of Grace and Gigabytes: Being Church in a Tech-Shaped Culture, shares a highly practical overview on using Google Analytics to understand and speak more impactfully to the audience you’re called to reach.
Michael Chan, executive director for faith and learning at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN., shares how Christian marketing can tell a remarkable and authentic story about how Jesus is at work in your congregation.
Enjoy a Q&A with all four presenters on a wide range of topics.

Meet the Instructors

Katie Langston, Kris Rolls, Ryan Panzer, Michael Chan

Join four digital strategists and theological thinkers for an in-depth look at how and why you should create an impactful digital presence in your church.

Katie Langston is director of digital strategy at Faith+Lead and an ordained pastor in the ELCA.

Kris Rolls is a church planter of All Saints in Holland, MI.

Ryan Panzer has an MA in theology from Luther Seminary, has worked for Google, and is the author of two books on digital ministry.

Michael Chan is a digital marketer and the executive director for faith and learning at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN.

Registration Info

Get access for $49.00

Tuition includes on-demand access to the workshop recording and a private group in the Faith+Lead Learning Lab to connect and share with ministry peers.

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