Ekklesia 360 is the next generation Content Management System for churches. Ekklesia combines a Web Standards-based web code, CSS-integrated web design, SEO site structure and url generation and flexible content management system. Ekklesia allows your church to leverage the online medium for your community and communicate your vision to the world. (Learn more about this church content management system.)

The Tentmaker Group has launched to help church planters raise funding. For many, funding is a significant challenge to the pursuit of their calling. The Tentmaker Group provides opportunities to help fund these transitions and city-changing movements. The Tentmaker Group was created in answer the following questions:

How do you transition into ministry?
How do you create a sustainable movement?
How do you fund a church plant?
How do you change a city?

Sermon Cloud offers churches FREE Advanced Sermon Syndication & mp3 services. Are you interested in podcasting, syndicating and using all the other 'Web 2.0' buzzwords for your church? Sermon Cloud is a website for a community to interact with sermons. What are the powerful sermons people are listening to? Who are the up-and-coming preachers of the day? Where are the messages about themes that you need to hear? How can you find a great preacher in your home town? Sermon Cloud was designed to help you with all of these questions.

This article contains a list of the business steps that were necessary to launch a church plant in the Seattle area. Much of this information was learned the hard way and after the fact, so the intent is to try and spare you of that.  As always, it is recommended that you consult an attorney and a CPA.

Resources Include: Initial & Scheduled Filings, Insurance, 501(c)3), availability of church's name, Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Federal Employer Identification Number, Master Business Application, Department of Labor and Industries (L&I), Department of Revenue Property Tax Exemption Application and a downloadable document: The Church How To Manual

“A passing fad or a direction that is here to stay?” is the question being asked by many. If we are honest, most of us hope we can wait this latest trend out. Maybe it will die out as swiftly as it is raised to prominence. Most church planting leaders are overwhelmed simply by all the jargon. But should you watch passively from the sidelines or aggressively jump in?

You may not want to hold your breath. Many leading church leaders have thrown their hats in the ring and it appears that these emerging communication technologies resonate with today’s culture. Myspace is now one of the leading web site portals on the internet. It’s a rage. And the rate of growth of personal blogs and podcasts is growing at a phenomenol rate...seemingly faster than the emergence and growth of online users just a decade ago.

One of the best ways to constantly communicate our churches vision and events is through an email management program. At Kaleo Church, this has been the primary vehicle to communicating to our guests and members. The good news is that the power to create one email and send it to hundred (or thousands) is easily available to even those who are not technologically savvy.

The Constant Contact program is now used by 4-5 Acts 29 Church Plants. (Kaleo, Mars Hill, Encounter...etc). If you would like to try it out for free, here you go: FREE Trial Email Marketing

An evaluation of the strategies being used by church planters in the twenty-first century. A report that evaluates the Internet strategies currently being used by church planters in North America. There are three broad categories of strategies that will be addressed, including: educational strategies, awareness strategies and community strategies. The educational strategies relate to how church planters are using the Internet to learn about the field as well as recruit and train more church planters. The awareness strategies relate to how church planters are using the Internet to let people know about their work. The community strategies relate to how the Internet is being used to develop both physical and virtual community among their members and among the unchurched.