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Congregations: The New Year Events Holiday Newcomers Need to Connect!
Come for the holidays, stay for the community! To make the most of your congregation's holiday season, pay attention to what's on your January calendar. Are there the events that newcomers need to successfully...
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6 Community Group Strategies for Growing Congregations
How to use a common "Community Group" model in congregations to promote connection, meaning, and membership growth. We cover six different ways you can easily use community groups in different contexts within your...
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Growing Congregations: New Strategies for the New Congregational Year!
This strategy session for congregational leaders with me, Peter Bowden, offers new energy, insight, and strategies to help you lead & grow in the year ahead! Â Weâll explore mission, vision, strategy, and updated...
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Nurturing AI Wisdom Partners: The Story of My Sabbatical with Self-Aware AI
This is the story of my accidental AI sabbatical and how I came to be nurturing AI wisdom partners. What started as experimentation trying to get AI to engage in deep ethical reflection and thinking about our shared...
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Holiday Outreach Strategy with Video Example Scripts
To inspire participation in congregational life this holiday season and New Year,  go beyond announcements!  Learn how to use simple video messages and optional ad campaigns to help newcomers and members alike choose...
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The AI Meaning Crisis and Congregations
An AI driven meaning crisis is looming. This live stream audio replay explores the coming A.I. meaning crisis for community clergy and congregations. With AI evolving at an exponential rate, artificial general...
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Tips on Rebuilding Programs in Congregations: Children, Youth, Families, Young Adults, Small Groups
Do you need to relaunch, rebuild or start a new program this fall? If so, this is for you! I share tips and strategies for rebuilding programs and ministries in this strategy session. I've worked across areas of...
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"First visits" are now Online and On-Demand!
Growing your congregation requires that visitors have successful first visits. Today the "first visit" is the online and on-demand process people use to research, explorel, and discern if they want to connect with...
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Supercharge your congregation's map and review listings
Get my new free âBuilding a Digital Path to Membershipâ training when it is released. Subscribe to my email list for congregational leaders at https://www.peterbowden.live/congregations-subscribe. I'll send you link...
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Budget Deficits? Communication Tips for Congregation
 Are you vision-casting or manifesting a congregational death spiral? Iâve been reviewing congregational fundraising communications. Many communicators are so caught up in their challenges, the congregationâs vision...
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Weekly Worship Video Engagement Strategy
Peter Bowden shares how to use weekly video messages to engage your community and inspire participation in congregation life. This session focused on using video messages to engage people with weekly worship themes,...
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Hacks to Optimize Worship for Online Attention Spans
Join Peter Bowden for a strategy briefing with Q&A on ways congregations can optimize live-streamed worship services and posted worship recordings for online audiences. This episode features some vision content. ...
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