Tuesday Evening

Mini Workshop

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Registration 5:45 PM

6:00 PM - 9 PM

Eastridge Presbyterian Church

1135 Eastridge Drive                                       Lincoln, NE 68510

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OR Wednesday Day

Full Workshop

Wednesday September 16, 2015

Registration  9 AM

9:30 AM to 3 PM CDT

First Presbyterian Church

 1318 K Street                              Tekamah, NE, 68061

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Tueday Night Workshop:

5:45 PM             Registration

6 - 6:45 PM        So You Thought You                                 Knew Communications

6:45 - 7:30 PM   Becoming News

7:30 - 8:15 PM   Secret Evangelism

8:15 - 9 PM        Freedom to Speak

Wednesday Agenda:

9 AM                     Registration

9:30 - 10:15 AM    So You Thought  You                              Knew Communications

10:15 - 10:30 AM   Break

10:30 - 11:45 AM  Secret Evangelism

11:45 - Noon         Application Planning

Noon - 12:45 PM  Lunch

12:45 - 2 PM         Becoming News

2 - 2:15 PM           Break

2:15 - 2:45 PM      Freedom to Speak

2:45 - 3 PM          Application Planning

How does your congregation market itself to members and your community?  

Homestead Presbytery invites to 
A Mini-Workshop on Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Or
        A Full Day Workshop on Wednesday,           September 16, 2015

This series of workshops are designed to enhance your communication skills in "marketing" your congregation
So You Thought You Knew Communications:  A short primer on communications. Opening with things it ain’t and why it ain’t  – like information technology, cell phones, electrical networks, mass media (alone), speech (alone) or other such things. Why it doesn’t always work and why it gets blamed for everything. Then a presentation of what communications is. It’s all about the message, including the impact of the medium on the message, and how it can work and why it often fails.

 

Secret Evangelism: The Value of Church Hospitality  If you don't act like you want visitors, or don't welcome the occasional members, they won't come and stay. Hospitality begins at the curb and should be reflected throughout your building in words and actions.

 Becoming News: How your church can become news in your community  From the day I told someone I would not come to their event to take pictures, to the day someone told me an event wouldn’t make the news, this segment covers making news in a church’s community. It’s really not that hard when you keep your eyes and ears open, and then, perhaps most important, see and hear with the sense of a journalist. What makes news and how you make news.

 Freedom to Speak:  Word of mouth is the best form of advertising - and it costs nothing!! Ways to teach congregations how to talk about their faith, and how to invite people to worship and eventsWorkshops led by

Kris Peterson
Homestead Presbytery Congregational Resource Coordinator
and
Duane Sweep
Communications Director for the Synod of Lakes and Prairies

The cost of the event is:
$10 for the Tuesday Evening Mini Workshop -
includes take home materials
or
$15 for the Wednesday Full Workshop -
 includes lunch and take home materials
Please invite other church support staff
& volunteers in your community
All denominations welcome!

 

Click on the link below to register.
Questions? Contact:
 Kris P 
Homestead Presbytery
402-474-0612
hpoffice@homesteadpres.org or krisp@homesteadpres.org