LPi Ushers in New Era of Technology Built for the Catholic Church
LPi has launched, WeGather, a cloud-based parish community builder integrated with a robust church member management system designed to empower Catholic leaders in ministry. Designed to help parishes better communicate with their parishioners and visitors to their communities, while efficiently maintaining their parish member census data, WeGather helps parish staff and lay leaders to engage people where they are at in their relationship with the parish community, so they can better connect, grow, and disciple them beyond weekend Mass. The technology of WeGather offers parishes a way to better serve the emerging needs of the Catholic Church in the modern world.
Why Email Marketing Is a Good Idea for Your Church
We seem to be swamped with online communication. If your church wants to communicate effectively with your parishioners, email marketing could be a good fit for you.
Entitled to Serve
We are called to serve and not to be served. If we seek what we truly deserve in this life, we will find that we are not actually entitled to much.
Jealousy & Selfish Ambition: Roots of Evil
We need to replace our jealousies, unbridled passions, and selfish ambition with a pursuit of love, justice, and peace. The Christian is called to change the tide and live differently.
6 Ideas for Back-to-School Outreach
Whether or not your parish has a school, this is a great time of year for evangelization and stewardship. How can you think outside the box to support education and engage a new generation of disciples?
Walk the Talk
The truth is that words are meaningless without action. Even if we think we are sincere, true faith without works is dead.
Come, Follow Me
If those traveling with Jesus are to be true disciples, they will have to imitate his example: “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.”
Fostering a Giving Community
Incorporating your online giving vision into your social media presence is a surefire way to foster a reliable source of compassion, advocacy and generosity. But how do you bring your causes to the forefront without overwhelming your followers?
Making Facebook Work for Your Church Part 3 – User Experience
Facebook attracts 2.23 billion active monthly users. While you likely don’t have the seating capacity for all of them at your church, let’s discus enhancing the experience of your average page visitor — the user experience.
Believing Is Seeing
There are miracles every day for the world to see. Many of those come about by allowing God to work through us. Jesus said we could do these things if we had faith.
Here Is Your God; He Comes With Vindication
No doubt, the healing of victims and the healing of our Church will likewise be a long, messy process. When it is all over, we may very well be a smaller, poorer, and weaker Church — just the kind of Church Jesus can use to evangelize the culture.
Unfathomable Justice
For those who do not believe in Jesus, God’s framework of justice seems even difficult to comprehend. In fact, it can appear downright crazy.
Making Facebook Work for Your Church: Part 2 — Analytics
With a little exploration, experimentation, and know-how, Facebook can be an excellent tool to engage your parishioners and communicate with those on the periphery of your congregation.