Church Whisperer

Unity in the church is 100% about relationships.  You know that already.

Relationships are, in turn, completely dependent upon communication, i.e., how we speak into one another’s lives and how we listen to one another.  Most of you know that already as well.

Communication, in turn, has become one of the largest single challenges in the church today.  Huge differences among our several generations (and their very different ways of communicating), rising costs in printing, publication, broadcasts, technology, etc., the ever-changing landscape of social networking (e-mails, texts, facebook, my space, blogs, microblogs, twitter, linkedin, etc.), and our people’s increasing needs and rising expectations about all of these things all come together to make a formidable tidal wave of problems church staff and lay leaders are struggling to address.  If your church staff is typical, it probably spends a lot more time dealing with the administrative communications needs in your church than it gets to spend actually doing ministry.

I believe you simply cannot address “unity” (i.e., relationships) in today’s church without an eye focused directly on how we are handling communication back and forth among members.  How do we establish enough “connectedness” among everyone in order to strengthen those relationships?  How do we handle the ever-increasing requests for bulletin space and website revisions and newsletter costs and  the requests for “just an additional 30 seconds during the morning worship service”?  How do we get our senior adults talking to our youth without insisting that they get on facebook?  How do we get our young adults and our senior adults more involved in one another’s lives?  How do we create an environment where every member and every ministry and every small group or Sunday School class or committee can communicate effectively with each other?

If you are still sending out church-wide e-mails or forming facebook groups for your church in order to try to answer some of these questions, then you really need to take a good long look at Unifyer.  It is an amazingly effective and unbelievably simple solution to most, if not all, of these issues.  Really.

I am so impressed with what the Pursuant Group has put together in this web-based social networking and complete communications product for churches and organizations, and I am so moved by the testimonies of current users and what it has done for the unity of their respective churches, I feel morally obligated to tell every church I know about it.  What kind of Church Whisperer would I be if I didn’t make sure you know about this easy, cost-effective solution?

And now I have.  You would be foolish not to check it out: www.unifyer.com.