This course attempts to answer why storytelling is so important within a Christian ministry context. Storytelling is an underutilized tool in the Church and we'd like to see that change.
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Your ministry needs storytelling content to keep donors informed, educated, and inspired. But, creative content can be expensive.
God is at work in incredible ways through your ministry. If told well, those stories can serve as effective tools for inspiring action.
Your ministry partners, missionaries, and staff are in the field watching God at work. We want to empower them to tell those stories!
This course attempts to answer why storytelling is so important within a Christian ministry context. Storytelling is an underutilized tool in the Church and we'd like to see that change.
In this course, we walk you through a messaging strategy that is rooted in the Hero's Journey. The goal is to teach you to create clear messaging and communication with your audience.
In this course, we'll walk you through the process of creating a brand story script for your ministry. This script is rooted in Monroe's Motivated Sequence and The Hero's Journey, and it will help you clearly communicate in all brand touch-points.
We use and teach 3 act story structures and the Hero's Journey to create compelling and engaging stories that relate and engage with audiences across cultures. In this course, you'll learn how to apply the Hero's Journey to your ministry marketing efforts.
In this course, we discuss the ethics of storytelling. It’s important to tells stories ethically. Guilt marketing and poverty porn should be things of the past, yet these are marketing tactics that are still used today. Ignorance is not an excuse and we need to do better. In this episode, we’re sharing some of the best practices we use to ensure that we are doing our best to tell stories ethically.
Storytelling is an incredibly powerful tool, and yet it goes completely underutilized in the ministry sector. In this course, we discuss a framework and content strategy for how your ministry can turn a single beneficiary's story into a month's worth of daily content. In theory, from 6-12 beneficiary story's, your ministry could create a piece of story-driven content per day for an entire year.
How to Start a Ministry Podcast is a comprehensive course designed to empower ministry leaders and ministry marketing professionals with the skills to launch, manage, and grow a podcast that amplifies their mission. From concept to launch, this course covers everything needed to create engaging, impactful episodes that build community, inspire listeners, and spread your message.
In this course, we discuss how The Hero's Journey can be used as a story structure to share testimonial stories. Stories are powerful. The Church needs to be a storytelling people, and The Hero's Journey story structure is the perfect tool to use to help us tell more stories more often, while being guaranteed to engage with our audience.
Unlock $10,000 per month in free Google Ads for your church or nonprofit! Our Google Ad Grant Acquisition course guides you through the application process and helps you get set up for success. Expand your online reach and drive traffic to your website with this powerful tool.
Unlock the full potential of your Google Ad Grant with our expert-led course designed for Christian ministries. Learn how to drive more traffic, engage new audiences, and amplify your message, all while maximizing the $10,000 monthly grant from Google. Perfect for ministries looking to grow their online presence and impact.
Your website should be a marketing tool that engages your audience, tells a clear and compelling story, and one that converts. In this course, we'll teach you how to apply the Hero's Journey story structure to your website and build a sitemap and flow of information that drives your user to your intended goals.
In this course, we discuss scriptwriting basics and give you a guideline for your interview questions so you can tell compelling and engaging stories with consistency and structure.
Learn the basics of the Pre-Production stage from our Documentary Storytelling process for better storytelling in the field.
Learn the basics of the Production stage from our Documentary Storytelling process for better storytelling in the field.
Learn the basics of Post-Production from our Documentary Storytelling process for better storytelling in the field.
In this course, we discuss intermediate and advanced photography concepts and explore how you can get the most out of your DSLR or mirrorless camera setup.
Learn the basics of photography for better storytelling in the field. In this course, we cover composition, technique, basic lighting concepts, and perspective centered around your mobile device.
Our goal is to help the Church communicate and share what God is doing globally more effectively for greater Kingdom impact. To that end, all Reliant Resources are FREE.
Our instructors are talented creatives with real world ministry experience. They aren’t just instructors, they’re practitioners in each of their creative fields.
We know you’re busy so we’ve made these courses available anytime, anywhere. Download and learn at your own convenience.
You can schedule a live consultation with our instructors for any of our courses, and you can do it on your time. No need to wait for a pre-scheduled webinar! Schedule personal training for your team, on your time, and let’s get your ministry, your national partners, and your missionaries telling stories well.
All of our courses can be scheduled as a live consultation OR you can download the pre-recorded content. Once the course is complete you can also schedule a follow-up critique so we can discuss the content your team is creating.
We also share weekly insights on our blog covering a wide range of topics, and informed by some of the industries top thinkers and practitioners. From storytelling tips and content strategy insights, to digital communication and fundraising strategy, we’ve got a wide range of resources to fit your needs. Enjoy some of our recent posts.
Most ministry leaders who have worked with a marketing agency can describe the moment something felt off. The work was technically fine. The design was clean. The strategy made sense on paper. But the people doing the work didn’t seem to understand what was actually at stake — that the budget came from donor trust, that the message carries theological weight, that the audience isn’t a market segment but people being formed by every piece of content the ministry puts in front of them.
That frustration is the reason the phrase “christian marketing agency” exists. But not every agency that uses it is offering something genuinely different. Here is what to look for — and why it matters which one you choose.
It is not difficult to find two sincere Christians who experience the same world in dramatically different ways. The difference is rarely rooted in doctrine. It is rooted in imagination. The stories we trust shape what feels real and plausible long before our beliefs are named. Biblical imagination is not fantasy. It is the capacity to perceive reality as God reveals it, and the Church has largely lost this capacity by privileging explanation over story.
There is God’s world and then there is the real world. There is faith, prayer, worship, and then there is work, anxiety, money, politics, bodies, exhaustion.
We may not say it out loud, but we feel it. God is active somewhere else. The Kingdom belongs to another realm. Our daily lives feel like neutral ground at best, contested ground at worst.
The Ultimate Guide to Story-Driven Messaging will help you engage ministry brand ambassadors through the power of storytelling.
The Ultimate Guide to Story-Driven Messaging will help you engage ministry brand ambassadors through the power of storytelling.
