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What a Communication Specialist Can Do for Your Parish
In a perfect world, each parish team would have a specific person designated to all kinds of essential tasks. A financial manager to keep track of invoices, funds and investments; a secretary to...
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How to Share the Good Works of Your Parish with Parishioners & Beyond!
Your parish collected 600 boxes of diapers for the local pregnancy help center during the month of May, sold 256 roses on Valentine’s Day, and with the help of the local Boy Scouts, managed to clean...
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Why You Need to Stop Featuring a Building on Your Homepage
When parishes began to see the value of having a website, for some reason someone decided that having an image of the physical building on the homepage was best practice. While it may have been that...
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How Facebook Stories Can Work for Your Parish
It’s no secret that social media organic reach is on a downward spiral. As a parish, you may have noticed that the number of users who engage with your posts is disproportionally lower than the people...
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Questions You Should Be Asking About Your Website and Blog
Has it been a while since your parish really discerned its online presence? Is your website, blog and/or social media account outdated or languishing in disuse? Do your parishioners struggle to...
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Parish Dispatch: Father Mario Amore, St. Aloysius Parish, Detroit, MI
We are so honored to work with vibrant parishes across the United States, each one working to bring the Kingdom of God to their neighborhoods. In the Archdiocese of Detroit, Father Mario Amore serves...
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Graphic Designers Share Their 7 Favorite Marian Designs for May
May is a month of beauty and the new life of spring! Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and the whole world feels as if it is alive again! How fitting, then, that it is also a month set aside...
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Build Your Social Media Platform with Images
Social media is a crowded space, but using images is one of the best ways to grab parishioners’ attention. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, today it’s also worth a thousand views, likes,...
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The Power of Photographs
Famed documentary photographer Robert Frank once said that the one thing every good photograph must contain is “the humanity of the moment.” When we use photography in church communications, that’s...
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Parish Dispatch: Father Tom Lucas S.J., St. Ignatius Loyola Parish,...
We are so honored to work with vibrant parishes across the United States, each one working to bring the Kingdom of God to their neighborhoods. In the Diocese of Sacramento, Father Tom Lucas serves at...
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Parish Dispatch: Rev. Paul-Michael Piega, S.T.L., St. Patrick Catholic...
We are so honored to work with vibrant parishes across the United States, each one working to bring the Kingdom of God to their neighborhoods. In the Diocese of Austin, Paul-Michael Piega serves at...
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Social Media Strategy 101 for Your Parish Community
Good news — social media strategy for parishes does not need to be confusing! We’ve put together a simple step by step guide that you can follow to get you started, or restarted, on the right foot...
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How To Write a Media/Press Release
A media release, also known as a press release, is usually a one-page written statement used to announce an upcoming event that your parish pitches to journalists for publication in your local, or...
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Using the Facebook and Instagram STORIES Tool for Engagement
An awesome tool that both Facebook and Instagram have developed over the last few years is their STORY feature. This tool is so robust and a great (free!) way to engage with your community when used...
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5 Examples of Photos Every Parish Needs
Recently, we shared a blog post called A Layperson’s Guide to Smartphone Church Photography. In that blog we mentioned five essential photo subjects that all parishes should strive to have for use on...
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Writing a Social Media Calendar for Your Parish
So, you’ve spent the time to set up accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and maybe even Twitter for your amazing church to better connect with your parishioners, but, now what? Note — if you haven’t set...
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Church Graphics Our Designers Loved Making — 2022 Edition
Did you know that there is an entire team of graphic designers behind the thousands of graphics, designs, templates, and more that we release every year? These images are created for you to use in...
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Church Branding for Beginners
Our teams meet with churches all over the United States. Did you know that many of the churches we meet with don’t have a unique brand for their parish!? We hear it all the time — “We need to reengage...
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Introducing Brand New Art and Content for 2023!
Our team has been working hard behind the scenes to produce brand new liturgical content for our WeCreate Catholic art & content library. In 2023 we bring to you new gospel illustrations, new...
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Parish Event Marketing Checklist
Your church has an event or program coming up and you want to make sure that everybody in your parish knows about it. In order to help you cover all of your marketing bases, we created a checklist to...
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