- Part 3

Funny Video: Deer Loose in Church

Check out this footage of a deer running wild through a church in North Carolina:

I believe the church needs to reach out to everyone, though maybe we should stop short of our fine forested friends.

This is actually a great example. Colonial Baptist Church had a strange and amusing situation for which the happened to have video. This wasn’t planned. It just happened, but someone saw the opportunity to take a fun story and turn it into a viral video. This video was only posted about a two weeks ago and already has nearly 1500 FB likes on GodTube and nearly 100,000 views on YouTube. The video has been posted on Break.com, OutdoorLife.com and even Bing’s videos. The video has been written about on thousands of websites, including the Huffington Post and several news sites. What great exposure!! It would have been good to include the church’s name at the end of the video, but all in all a great job by the folks at Colonial Baptist.

Faking Social Media

I was reading an article over at MickMel.com entitled, “You Can’t Fake It On Social Media“. The thrust of the article is that for social media to work for an organization, you must actively engage with people through social media. You can’t fake it. But is that really true? Can you fake it? Read More

Funny Church Video: How To Worship

It’s been a while since I posted a funny church video. Unfortunately, I’ve found it’s pretty hard to find church videos that original, funny, and decently done. Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places. Either way, the dry spell is over.

Check out these helpful instructions on how to worship for beginners:

If you have any funny or inspirational church videos or happen to know a good source of church videos, please post in the comment below.

Has Google Taken A Stand For Homosexuality?

Google has never been known for morality. Their moto is “Don’t Be Evil” which seems good, but it struck me that just not being evil leaves a lot of room for immoral things which may not reach the level of “evil” in the eyes of Google. As a secular search engine, Google has always allowed for websites related to all kinds of behavior, but is Google now officially supporting homosexuality? Read More

Google Maps Adds Descriptive Phrases To Church Listings

Google has announced that listings in Google Maps will now include descriptive phrases associated with the listing.

“Google Maps search results in the U.S. and Great Britain will include some of the phrases which are most frequently used to describe those places. These phrases come from sources all across the web, such as reviews, web pages and other online references, and they can help people quickly identify the characteristics that make a particular place unique.” Read More

The Top 10 Things To Avoid In Church SEO

Last week I wrote about what factors are most important in local church SEO. Yesterday, I wrote a related article over at the Christian SEO Guys blog looking at the top 10 things to avoid in local SEO. These principles absolutely apply to church SEO.

Some of the things mentioned are: Read More

Top 10 Local Church SEO Factors

Local SEO is crucial for churches. Churches and ministries who aren’t doing SEO are missing out on new visitors and hindering their ministry efforts. So, what do you need to do to get your church to show up in the local search results? Read More

The Parable of The Church Sign – From ShareFaith

One of the primary elements of a church’s online marketing is their website. All the link building and SEO can be rendered virtually useless (or even harmful) if the church’s website gives a bad impression to the people who find it. Read More

The Church Going Viral

Kevin Hendricks over at Church Marketing Sucks has a great article about the recent flash mob video from Second Baptist Church, “Dance Your Shoes Off”. He makes some great points what a viral video like this which involved so many people can do, including:

“Such a public event does have the benefit of multiple perspectives. It’s not limited to the official video. Loads of people watching the event can be seen snapping pictures and taking cell phone video. These alternate perspectives show up online, spreading the core idea even further.”

You can watch the Dance Your Shoe Off video below:

Author - Kurt Steinbrueck