Comments on: Church Web Design Part 14: 10 Ways to Maximize the Christmas Opportunity https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/church-web-design-part-14-10-ways-to-maximize-the-christmas-opportunity/ A look at how trends in communication technology impact individuals and organizations. Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:05:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Kathy Grimm https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/church-web-design-part-14-10-ways-to-maximize-the-christmas-opportunity/#comment-95396 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:05:17 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2007/11/29/church-web-design-part-14-10-ways-to-maximize-the-christmas-opportunity/#comment-95396 Well, I have a little additional request. Although it may seem to be asking too much after a church has done so much as what you've stated. I would love for churches to create archives of all their Christmas ministry pages. Let me explain.

Congregations view their webpages as a means to an end. They need to get information to their members and to visitors affectively. There is nothing wrong with this except that so many of their members never use these church websites. They already attend often enough and have plenty of motivation to go to their church on Christmas!

So, well, why not leave all these great webpages up for a long enough time to actually reach unchurched people under the topic of Christmas on the internet? I mean, I have a tough time finding religious Christmas pages out there in cyberspace to link to from the gallery.

People come to my gallery for graphics and teaching materials. Pastors and staff would love to get new ideas for "outreach" during the holidays. If I could link to pages that stay up and don't change every month, then it would be much easier for me to give my visitors something they could sink their teeth into.

I also draw "unchurched" traffic. These unbelievers need something truly special to read about connected with Christmas. I only have so much time to give them new materials and visuals. I want to help them as much as I can.

What do I have to choose from on the internet? Well, I've got one of two extremes most of the time. It's either "jingle bells, with flashy, silly, annoying stuff," or "high minded, academic, intimidating articles." Come on people, where are the congregations who know how to love and connect?

Keep your Christmas pages up also because it takes time for visitors to find you. The pages themselves are witnessing to visitors but you've got to allow them time to find you! Oh. Well, I'm sorry for being so demanding. Please write the gallery to inform us of your Christmas archive pages, if you should decide to help us out a bit. We need you much more than you think! I don't know if I can leave a link here. Just look us up, Pick and Print gallery, or look under my name.

By the way, does anyone ever tell church folks that their websites rank higher, if they have more webpages? This is true, I've seen it happen again and again.

]]> By: » 12 Signs Your Church is Trying Too Hard to Make Its Christmas Eve Service Appealing to Visitors https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/church-web-design-part-14-10-ways-to-maximize-the-christmas-opportunity/#comment-94279 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:15:28 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2007/11/29/church-web-design-part-14-10-ways-to-maximize-the-christmas-opportunity/#comment-94279 […] Last week in the blog article Church Web Design Part 14: 10 Ways to Maximize the Christmas Opportunity, I was describing my church’s upcoming Christmas Eve service and wrote. “This is not your typical Christmas Eve service where the congregation sings the same carols every year, teenagers play with hot candle wax during Silent Night, and everyone speculates as to whether this year the soloist will be able to hit the high note in Oh, Holy Night.” […]

]]> By: Chris Jones https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/church-web-design-part-14-10-ways-to-maximize-the-christmas-opportunity/#comment-93815 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:10:14 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2007/11/29/church-web-design-part-14-10-ways-to-maximize-the-christmas-opportunity/#comment-93815 Thanks for the info; you're so right. I forget how important it is to add Christmas stuff during the holidays!

Chris Jones

oh yeah don't forget to check out my blog!

http://www.inspirationalexperiences.org

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