tarting a podcast for your church or ministry does not require a production team or a massive budget. It requires clarity about your audience, a willingness to show up consistently, and a framework that turns conversations into content. This guide walks you through every step from choosing your format to building an audience.
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Ethical storytelling is one of the hardest tensions ministry leaders face. You need to communicate real need without exploiting real people. This article explores how the Hero’s Journey story structure helps Christian nonprofits create marketing that builds trust, preserves dignity, and invites people into meaningful participation.
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Major Donor Development and Retention Strategies Through Storytelling We spoke with Kristen Hemmet, Director of Ministry Services for The Signatry, during the podcast Donor-Centric Communication and The Ministry of Donor Development. The Signatry connects major donors to the causes they are most passionate about to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity. Their vision is to
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We recently had the pleasure of visiting with Jeremy Turner to discuss a topic we’re both very passionate about: the importance of purpose-driven messaging. In this article, we’ll summarize and expand on just a few of the highlights. Read on to learn what purpose-driven messaging is, why it’s crucial for your ministry’s growth, and how
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Your ministry is already producing the most compelling content available to any organization on earth: stories of transformation. The problem is not a lack of material. It is a lack of strategy for capturing, repurposing, and distributing those stories consistently. This article provides a step-by-step framework for turning a single testimony into a full month of story-driven content across every platform your audience already uses.
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Is There a Place for Discipleship in Your Ministry? Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them
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How Hope International Balances Strategy with God’s Direction. How do you balance planning and strategy with seeking and following the Lord’s guidance? This is an important question for Christian ministry leaders to keep in mind… especially since the answer to that question is often a moving target. This is a question I often struggle with
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MedSend has an incredibly simple, but effective model. Remove the barrier to the mission field for healthcare providers by covering their educational debt. MedSend partners with a long list of sending agencies and up until the date of our podcast, MedSend had completely paid off 175 healthcare providers loans. In our podcast conversation with Rick
How IJM is Protecting Beneficiary Identities Last week we shared Part-3 in a 4-Part series exploring the ideas and topics discussed in our podcast interview with Brittany Baker from IJM. This week, we’re wrapping that series up with Part-4 and we’ll be talking about how ministries can protect beneficiary identities. Let’s get into it. As
Story Structures with IJM A couple of weeks ago we shared Part-2 in a 4-Part series exploring the ideas and topics discussed in our podcast interview with Brittany Baker from IJM. Sorry for the delay in this article, COVID-19 put a bit of a pause in our content output, but we’re back today with Part-3.
New Media and Changing Digital Landscapes We recently shared part-1 in a 4-part series exploring the ideas and topics discussed in a recent podcast with IJM. In that article, we talked about marketing, donor-development, and storytelling with IJM, and you can read that article HERE. Today in part-2, we’re going to discuss new media and
A couple of weeks ago we had Brittany Baker, Regional Director of Marketing for IJM, on the podcast and she went into pretty granular detail on how marketing, donor-development, and storytelling with IJM is handled. It was an incredibly insightful episode and over the next handful of weeks, I’ll be exploring the topics we discussed
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