Current news this week has everyone scrambling again – the Delta variant of COVID-19 is taking many communities by storm. After feeling like we were coming out of the pandemic and going back to many things in person, we’re now faced with the possibility that we have to restrict again. So, while we were thinking… Read More
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Why is Digital Ministry important?
You’re reading this blog post for a reason, and today I want to share with you the basics of why we do what we do. Why Faith Growth exists. This is it, boiled down to the absolute essence. Why Digital Ministry is Important aka Faith Growth’s Core Principals: 1) Digital Ministry is Incarnational 2) People… Read More
Pastor Ernie Hinojosa – “Digital Congregations” | How We Do Digital Ministry Episode 12
In the twelfth episode of How We Do Digital Ministry, Pastor Ernie Hinojosa, senior pastor of Rejoice Lutheran Church in Coppell, Texas, talks about the intersection of change, loss, grief and technology with Christopher Harris of Faith Growth. We’re being challenged to orient and to innovate at a time when a lot of us don’t… Read More
What do we need to give up?
This week on Twitter, Nadia Bolz-Weber (@sarcasticluther) said, “Maybe asking pastors and church staff who paddled like hell to keep churches afloat during a pandemic to now do BOTH in-person and on-line is a bit too much” And that struck a chord – with me, and with many people. I think the point of what… Read More
Rev. Dr. Joelle Colville-Hanson – “Technology with Humanity” | How We Do Digital Ministry Episode 11
In the eleventh episode of How We Do Digital Ministry, Rev. Dr. Joelle Colville-Hanson, the ELCA director for Evangelical Mission for the Northeastern Iowa Synod, is one of the “early adopters” of digital ministry and shares with us what digital ministry was like early on, and what it is like now and into the future…. Read More
Paul Schmidt – “DOs and DON’Ts of church video” | How We Do Digital Ministry Episode 10
In the tenth episode of How We Do Digital Ministry, Paul Schmidt, owner and Creative Video Strategist of Uno Duece Media in Lansing, Michigan, dishes out a bit of expert advice on video production. Try to get used to being on camera and addressing the camera appropriately — it will carry over because this situation… Read More