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So I’m sitting at my laptop this morning and realize my screen is getting brighter, then darker and brighter again. I also noticed my battery indicator was doing funny things. So I decided my adapter must be loose.
And low and behold – something cut the cord on the adapter.
It looks as though something ate through part of the cord, but maybe I kicked it somehow weird under my desk and cut it.
Either way, it needs to be repaired or replaced and Toshiba wants $89 to replace it.
Ouch.
I think I’ll run next door to RK Bass and see what they think.
Lets hope they can fix it.

Church Marketing Sucks has an interview with Church Communications Minister Gene Mason. It’s a good look at communications, marketing and sharing our message with the world.

Gene Mason is the Communications Minister at the 5,000-member The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala. He’s been doing communications ministry in local churches for 18 years, and this is the third church where he’s started such a ministry. He also runs a web site called Communicorps.org that shares some of what he’s learned.

It’s interesting that Mason says that despite any and all marketing their church does, the best marketing of the church is still word of mouth.
There’s nothing better than people hearing your story and how God has impacted you. And there’s no better invite to church than a friend telling a friend about their church and their friend Jesus.

At The Church at Brook Hills, my desire is to use tools at our disposal to effectively communicate the message of the church to inform and inspire. Our effort centers in five areas:

Imagination – creative use of promotional tools

Innovation – presenting things in a fresh way

Integration – using all the media means at our disposal together in an effective way

Involvement – coaching lay leaders to communicate

Inspiration – telling the stories of God at work in people’s lives

Anyone still have a reader 4 these things? I bet theres some cool stuff on them.

Look out world. Here i come. Or so i thought in 97

Texas Monthly has a great article on Joel Olsteen. It talks about how his church has grown from an old feed store that his father started, to moving into the former home of the Houston Rockets – The Compaq Center this month. It also talks a lot about the marketing the church does to help spread their message.

“FOR MOST PREACHERS, MONDAY IS A DAY OF REST. FOR JOEL Osteen, the 42-year-old pastor of Houston’s mammoth Lakewood Church and the face of the world’s most popular religious television program, Mondays have become devoted to meeting his public.”

So we just received a blank fax from Ft Hood.
I asked our ad rep why people are always sending blank faxes.
He said, “It’s because they heard we were running low on paper – so they decided to help us out and fax over some blank paper.”
Funny. That’s funny – I don’t care who you are.