By Lisa Bauer, First Christian Church, Springfield, OH Is it just me or does Christmas seem early this year? Where has the time gone? I sure hope this busy season finds you healthy and filled with God’s love. Speaking of being busy, since our launch in mid-October, MinistryCOM Local now has 19 groups and partners [...]

To make sure churches have a place for the real-life Marys and Josephs this Christmas, TastyFaith is offering free tips on how to reach out to teen moms during the holiday season. Ideas include everything from free downloadable baby bucks at TastyFaith.com to secret wise men that anonymously give gifts to young moms in need. [...]

We have two new MinistryCOM Local Groups forming: Columbus (central Ohio) Delaware (Delmarva peninsula) Thanks to Lisa, Susan and Jeremy for stepping up to coordinate these groups!

Everyone is pumped about going to Park Community Church for the 2009 conference. The city is cool and the host church is very cool. The only down side is that Park is smaller than any of our prior host locations. We will only have 16 booth spaces available for vendors. Six have already been sold. [...]

Von Glitschka has agreed to join us again and present two workshops at MinistryCOM 2009 in Chicago. If you missed his Illustrative Design session in Oklahoma City you really missed out. Von has some incredible talent, a very impressive list of clients, and actually enjoyed meeting a bunch of church graphics geeks at MinistryCOM. We [...]

If you are involved in the ministry of Church Communications, you most likely know what it feels like to be the “black sheep” department of the church. Many people in the church aren’t quite sure of exactly what you do, and sometimes you have a hard time explaining it yourself. The Communications department in any [...]

In only our first week, we have 13 new local groups and partners. God has sent us some great people who have volunteered to coordinate groups all across the US and Canada. Check the Local Groups page to see if a local group is forming near you. If so, contact the coordinator and help get [...]

MinistryCOM has always been devoted to supporting ministry communications professionals. Now we are taking the next step in recognizing you as “professionals”. Beginning Monday, October 27, 2008 MinistryCOM will begin accepting memberships in MinistryCOM, Inc. a 501(c)(3) corporation. By becoming a member of MinistryCOM you will be identified as a professional in ministry, not just [...]

We’ve talked about this for a while, and now we are ready to do it! MinistryCOM will be developing local groups of church communications professionals across the US and Canada. At this time we are looking for people who will be coordinators for each local group. As a local group coordinator your responsibility is to [...]

One of the fun elements at MinstryCOM was the MinistryCOM Challenge. It includes distinguished MinistryCOM attendees, split-second decisions, and of course, flying monkeys.  Check it out.