We’ve cut the cost of our church website packages in half!

We can’t personally go into every city & preach to every community, but we CAN equip your ministry with a church website to help you impact your community. For a limited time (through August) we’ve reduced the cost of our church website packages by more than half.

All proceeds go to support SFC!

Not only do you get a great church website at an incredible rate, but every dollar goes to Sheaves for Christ supporting local youth activities, national ministries and global missions. Your participation in the great .Com Mission will assist us in providing vehicles for missionaries sharing the gospel around the world, in providing aid to church plants across America, and in ministering to the youth of our cities right here at home. Learn more about Sheaves for Christ.

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Why are we doing this?

In addition to our secular day jobs and operating SanctuaryOne.com, each of the S1 team members is engaged in ministry at our local church. However, we’ve recently felt inspired by God to GO beyond these commitments, and follow the call to “GO” in a bigger way.

This is our way of engaging faith, stepping up our game and answering His call to “GO”. We’re excited to see what God has in store for us over the next few months.

Help us spread the word!

Join us on Facebook (SanctuaryOne on FB) and Twitter (@SanctuaryOne) and share the .Com Mission page with as many people as you can. Help us get the word out to as many people as possible. Let’s raise some money for some incredible ministries!

Here are the details:

Using envato’s graphicriver, a trusted & recommended graphic resource, this bright mothers day church flyer can be bought by simply signing in then clicking the “Purchase” button. Once purchased, download your files.

Once you have downloaded the files open them in Photoshop where you can then edit the non-3D text and modify to your liking. This theme has six, one click color options so you’re not stuck with the yellow color scheme you see above.

That’s about it. For $7 you get a great mothers’s day church flyer & theme along with added creative for a CD label & jewel case insert. Even if you don’t use the CD creative materials, this is still worth the $7 for the church flyer.

Buy it here

Use it beyond just the flyer

Keep in mind that even though this creative is already designed to be a print ready mother’s day church flyer, with a little Photoshop skills, you can use this theme in several places of your website including sliders, page headers, hero images, etc.

Twitter is like a huge bulletin board where users can make post about anything they want in 140 characters or less. Most users post tweets about what they are doing, cool websites they found and want to share, quick announcements, news, and much more.

Churches and company’s alike are jumping into this new social network and taking advantage of the user connections, relationships and fan base it creates around their particular brand.

Why Churches Should Use Twitter

1) Creates a social network

Businesses, freelancers, and everyday people alike are using the power of twitter to create traffic through networking, so why shouldn’t churches do the same?

Taking your social network online with twitter will drive traffic to your site and even more importantly will drive possible local visitors to your church. Weather one is an internet guru or not, people each day are signing up for twitter. Dive-In and take your church to the next level with Twitter.

2) It’s Interactive

Twitter is all about sharing thoughts, ideas, tools and updates about various items to your followers, in short, it’s very interactive but has the potential to contact many. When you make a tweet you don’t just talk to one or two people but you are sharing that thought with everyone that is following you and people like that interaction!

Your church needs online interaction if you’re going to target the online audience just like you need offline interaction if you’re going to target the offline audience.

3) Promote Your Church Events

Speaking of interaction – we all know how hard it is to promote church events and to actually get existing members and visitors alike to them. Twitter can help. Once you’ve created interaction you can easily promote church events in just 140 characters or less and as much as you’d like.

4) Can Help Build Relationships

Let’s face it, people visit churches all the time but what turns them from a visitor to a member is that connection of a relationship.

No matter the size or faith of your local church – there is a need to connect and have a relationship with your local congregation which, I’ll admit, can be somewhat challenging.

Leverage your church twitter account to your advantage to help create and grow that relationship with your visitors and current members. Share important links and thoughts with them, tweet praise reports, send out ‘Thank You’ tweets and just make everyone following you on your church’s twitter account feel a special connection that they couldn’t find elsewhere.

5) It’s Fast & Easy to Use!

Anything done on a daily basis must be able to be completed quickly & easily – Twitter is fast & easy! With a 140 character limit you can tweet two times a day and still not invest over 10 minutes for both tweets.

So let’s say you go on outreach for a special service and you pass out 400 tracks in 5 hours, which is HARD work. You could do the same type of advertising, online via twitter, and advertise to your entire church twitter community in less than 5 minutes. Also, if you can write a simple email, you can use twitter.Yes, it’s that easy.

This is not to say you shouldn’t still do face-to-face advertising, but why limit your church to JUST tracks and paper invitations when doing it online via Twitter doesn’t take much more time or cost ANY money?

6) It’s Free & Fun

I must say Twitter is addicting and who hates free advertising? Use Twitter to your advantage by tweeting about church events, successes, ideas, updates, invitations, and cool new discovery’s. Twitter is also fun because you’re able to see what others are thinking and new tools they find.

Why Not?!

Twitter is free, fast and very easy to do but also creates a wonderful social network for your church or organization, why not use it?

Being directly involved with my local churches evangelism ministry I understand how expensive and time consuming it can be to outreach to others. With that said, why not use Twitter for your church to leverage yet another outreach method for your evangelism ministry.

We’ve all heard the saying “A picture is worth a thousands words” which is why so many people spend hundreds and sometimes even thousands of dollars investing in cameras, camcorders and such.

But, as time progresses, the digital world is increasingly going online and the inevitable question arises “How do I capture my online images/pictures with my computer?” That’s exactly what I’d like to show you today, five of the best screen capture programs out there so you can capture your online digital world within seconds and without spending a lot of money.

1) FastStone Screen Capture

• Website: www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
• Pricing: $19.95 for lifetime license
• Free Trial: Yes, 30 days, Try it free
• Works With: Windows, IE, FireFox, Google Chrome, possibly others
• S1 Rating: 5/5

Possibly my personal favorite screen capture program available online today mainly because it’s so simple, minimal, and clean but still includes all the power you need in any screen capture software. Screen grab anything you see on you computer screen and save it in any format you can possibly think of. FastStone also includes some very easy to use image editing tools so you can do almost anything you want with your screen shot right within FastStone.

This option will cost you $20 but if you plan on doing a lot of screen capturing, it’s worth every penny!

2) Snagit, TechSmith’s Screen Capture Software

• Website: www.techsmith.com/snagit.html
• Pricing: $49.95 for lifetime license
• Free Trial: Yes, 30 days, Try it free
• Works With: Windows, IE, FireFox, Google Chrome, possibly others
• S1 Rating: 5/5

I am very impressed with Snagit from TechSmith – it is very flexible, intuitive and quite powerful. However, in some cases, it seems to be too heavy with features and options especially when all your needing in a quick screen shot and maybe a couple markups here and there. In the same token, I feel TechSmith does a beautiful job presenting all these features in a user friendly manner where it’s not hard or complicated to learn but sometimes, little is better.

If you’re looking for a power and simple to use screen shot program I would highly recommend Snagit from TechSmith, yes it’s a little higher than the rest but you get tons of options and features with that investment.

3) Windows Vista Snipping Tool

• Website: www.windows.microsoft.com
• Pricing: $0.00/FREE with windows vista & 7
• Free Trial: No, App is FREE
• Works With: Windows Vista, Windows 7
• S1 Rating: 3/5

The screen capture tool in windows vista is really all the average user would ever need for screen capture but I honestly prefer not to use it for a couple reasons. For one, I’m not to fond on the overall functionality of the tool and how it saves by default but mainly I prefer a screen capture that has editing functionality along with the screen capture. However, when I first seen this tool when I got Windows Vista my mouth dropped because I thought it was so cool that a screen capture program came along with an operating system, for free.

If you’re looking for something simple and FREE, I would definitely recommend the Snipping Tool on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

4) FireShot with FireFox

• Website: https://addons.mozilla.org
• Pricing: $0/FREE with Firefox Browser
• Free Trial: No, App is FREE
• Works With: Windows XP, Vista, 7 & MAC
• S1 Rating: 3/5

FireShot is the best browser screen capture add-on I’ve used yet because it contains three core foundations usability, flexibility and affordability. The only down-fall of FireShot is it is JUST a browser screen capture add-on to FireFox which is not really a BIG deal since you should be using FireFox or Chrome anyhow. To get rolling with this forth screen capture add-on just install FireFox and then install FireShot add-on and keep in mind it’s all FREE!

5) Jing – Add visuals to your online conversations

• Website: http://www.jingproject.com/
• Pricing: $0/FREE
• Free Trial: No, program is FREE
• Works With: Widows XP, Vista & MAC OS X
• S1 Rating: 4/5

Jing is another work of art from TechSmith and is very new to me but after downloading I was absolutely floored at how easy the program is to use without cutting out functionality – course, I wouldn’t expect anything less from TechSmith.

This is MORE than just a screen capture program but I had to include it because the screen capture functionality is superb. This program is FREE and allows you to capture your screen and save it as a picture or take a video, again, these are both super EASY to use. You have the choice to either save it to your desktop, upload to ScreenCast.com, upload via FTP or edit it in Snagit! Download Jing Now!

Where can my church use a screen capture program?

• PowerPoints - Even smaller churches have a projector now days that outline upcoming events, news and such. Use a screen capture software to capture any online examples, websites, images, etc. and integrate them into your PowerPoint presentation to make it more dynamic, interesting and unique.
• Fliers & Other Media - Take your church fliers and church media to a higher level by leveraging a screen capture tool.
• Websites - I can not tell you how many times I use my screen capture program for my website – it adds a quick unique and personal feel to a page.