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Church Communications Pro Gets Refreshed.
Posted by: | CommentsChurch Communications Pro got an upgrade over the weekend including a new look, new products, and new sponsors!
I admit that I have neglected CCP and keeping it fresh and updated. It’s been a busy year with iThemes – especially with us now acquiring and launching our new business WebDesign.com. Cory Miller and I am extremely amped up about this venture to say the least but it’s taken a lot of work to get things in order.
This past year has also brought new changes to my business and personal life as well. I shut down a successful business and joined an awesome team all while trying to finish up freelance work, keep different blogs afloat, and staying involved with church planting in some degree. What I have discovered is that I am not one who can spin many plates and keep them from crashing to the ground. So last week I decided to bring all of the Branding Shed’s content and products (I’m still having problems with the domain redirect) to CCP and make this a permanent home for all of my church branding and church marketing related stuff. The fact is I love helping churches and Cory poured a lot of sweat into building an amazing resource here and I want to see this website continue to grow and help you.
I have also realized that if I am going to do this I will also have to let some things go, including domain names and other ideas I’ve held so closely for years. While this is a hard decision, I do look forward to focusing and doing a few things well, not to mention it really is refreshing to cast off added weight.
So I sincerely apologize that Church Communications Pro has seen a lack of love and attention over the last few months and with my renewed focus (plus a need for a hobby) on investing in the Kingdom through this ministry, there will be a new injection of passion to keep CCP moving ahead and not letting Cory’s awesome vision for this site be in vain.
If you have ideas and suggestions I’ve love to hear them. This resource is for our brothers and sisters in the trenches and it’s with your involvement we can work together for building the Kingdom through ministry and media.
Blessings! – James Dalman, Acts 20:24
Church Communications Pro Sponsors for July 09
Posted by: | CommentsChurch Communications Pro would like to thank our current sponsors and those who have been with us a couple of months already. We sincerely appreciate you being involved with us and I encourage our readers to check out your websites.
Thank you all so much for your support of our work at Church Communications Pro!
How is Your Church Doing?
Posted by: | CommentsIt seems these days all we hear about are bailouts, fat corporate cats living high on the hog while taking a handout, the financial crisis in America, or that the Dow Jones is sucking wind. While these are all true and they are all depressing, I wonder how our churches across the United States are doing right now.
So how are you doing? Not in numbers or finances – but how are you holding up personally? Has ministering to people changed during this time? Are you still as strong in your faith as before the economic crunch? Do you feel God will use this challenging situation for His glory and purpose?
Please know that I pray right now for you and your church. May God show you His presence and guide you and your team during this difficult situation. I ask that He blesses you in your mission for building the Kingdom! Amen.
Relaunching Church Communications Pro
Posted by: | CommentsHey CCP Readers! I know it has been quite a while since I have been active here and I offer my apologies!
Since I’ve joined the iThemes team, we have been blasting out a bunch of new projects which has kept us all pretty swamped. One of the major products we released this morning is a new Wordpress theme called Flexx Theme. It is off the wall, and I believe for churches (or anyone else for that matters) it is going to absolutely change the playing field when it comes to church blogs or church websites.
Here’s just a few of the goodies that Flexx Theme is capable of doing:
- Offering 1,056 layouts variations!
- Click of the button layout and styling options.
- Easy to upload backgrounds and headers without FTP.
- No coding experience needed or required to use!
- Rotating and Fading Image Headers.
- Automatically Search Engine Optimized.
- Built in Color Picker for Background Colors
- and more things you can shake a stick at!
I will also be working on FLEXX THEME: CHURCH which will be released at ChurchTheme.com in the next week or so. Either way you won’t want to miss getting it but if you do want the original Flexx Theme then get it now because the price will go up next week!
All this to say what ties into my headline.
We are going to load the Flexx Theme for Church Communications Pro to show it off and so you can see how it works. So please excuse the mess as we start relaunching CCP and give it one new sweet look!
Thank you to our sponsors!
Posted by: | CommentsChurch Communications Pro would like to thank our new Platinum Sponsors for supporting our work here:
- City Gates. Where the conversation continues. City Gates makes great church websites with a focus on building community. It combines powerful web publishing, ease-of-use, and great design…and it’s built just for churches! You can even take the CMS for a test drive for FREE!
- Sermon Connect. Sermon Connect is an online media and communications center that will help you take your media to a new level. You can manage it from anywhere and at anytime with excellence. It has a customizable user interface and it’s developed for pastors and ministry leaders.
Please check out their websites as you have time and if you would like to help support CCP and get the word out about your business, consider becoming one of our sponsors.
Thanks again to City Gates and Sermon Connect!
