The mandate of the Great Commission necessitates creativity for every generation of believers. Outreach methods that were effective yesterday may produce little or no results today. Although there is no replacement for person-to-person interaction in sharing the Gospel, technology can serve to bridge certain gaps in today's digital age.



Optimize for Results

Your web site can serve as an evangelism / outreach tool by optimizing it to return the best results in searches through popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Church-Link provides search engine optimization (SEO) tools to help your web site penetrate the information overload that result from such searches and lead people to your site.

You can include content and functionality that might attract the un-churched as well as believers looking for a church in your area through the use of Church-Link modules and resources. Here are just a few possibilities:

• Blog articles and content that address subject matter relevant to our post-modern culture. You can then search engine enable your blog so that your entries appear within search results  of popular search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
• Schedule group chat sessions on relevant issues that might attract visitors
• Advertise events on your site and set search keywords to draw visitors to the event
• Facilitate public discussions that might attract new participants
• Provide answers to relevant or provocative questions using the FAQ module
• Publish public surveys that engage anonymous web site visitors
• Invite friends to any page on your site with the Tell-a-Friend module
• Solicit visitor feedback using the Feedback module
• Collect visitor contact information and comments via the Contact Us module
• Provide driving directions with the Maps module, integrating with Google Maps
• Offer free on-line classes and seminars using Church-Link e-Learning templates and multi-media features

Track New Contacts!

Don’t allow people to fall through the cracks! Church-Link includes a Contacts Journal, a tool used to maintain a list of ministry contacts and to track and facilitate the follow up process. Contact follow up may be delegated to other members using automated email notifications.