You’re ready to start marketing your church. You’ve set up your website and a few social media accounts. You’ve put a new coffee pot in the foyer to welcome all the new faces you expect to see this Sunday. You’re ready to do this.

But a question remains: how do you put all these things together (minus the coffee pot)? How do you hook up your website, social media channels, email marketing, postcards, etc. in a way that captures people’s interest and converts it into visits to your church?

These five tools are must-haves for pastors and lay leaders who want to market their church to the local community.

We’ll cover the ins and outs of church marketing strategy in another post. Before we get there, though, we need to fill your toolbox with the basic tools every church needs to get started in marketing. Below, we’ll focus more on categories along with plenty of links so that you can explore which specific option will work best for your church.

When it comes to marketing, church leaders often labor under a set of wrong beliefs that either keep them from advertising or hold them back when they finally do. In this post, we list 7 of the most common misconceptions about church marketing, along with the truth that will set us free to spread the word about what Jesus is doing in our churches.

Church marketing can be a sticky subject. This post helps leaders understand marketing and convince stakeholders that it’s worth their time and money.