The Ministry Growth Show

In this episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we talk with David Nelson from Crossing Cultures International as David shares his insights from 36 years of cross cultural disciple-making experience. David and I discuss the disciple-making model David and his team are using all over the world and he shares his thoughts on the importance of storytelling in donor development and communication. Enjoy! Relevant Resources: Bill Hull - ...

In this episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we share our agencies website design strategy and show how The Hero’s Journey story structure can be used to tell a story with the structure of information on your website. Your website should be a marketing tool that engages and converts. It should tell a story both in it’s informational structure, but also as a placeholder and mantle for the stories coming out of your ministry. In this...

In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be discussing the basics of scriptwriting and show you how you can take any beneficiaries story and fit it into a story formula. The story formula we use is The Hero’s Journey, and it’s effective because it’s a story that we all experience in our ...

In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be discussing the third phase of our documentary storytelling process, Post-Production. Post-Production is where everything comes together in the editing process. This is where you can really get creative and you can make your film shine. This is ...

In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be discussing the second phase of our documentary storytelling process, Production. The production phase is where you actually get to start creating content. You’ll perform your interviews and most likely capture b-roll in this stage of the proces...

In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be discussing the first phase of our documentary storytelling process, Pre-Production. Pre-Production is a crucial piece to the documentary process, yet it’s often times the most overlooked stage. We need a clear plan of action when we set out to ...

In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be showing how The Hero’s Journey story structure pops up in many of the most recognizable stories throughout scripture. This is a story structure that we believe is engrained in us by our creator. A story structure that He used to tell the storie...

In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be highlighting a problem that we see in the Church that we’re calling Story Poverty. This is not a fun and creative play on words. We truly see that the Church is in a state of story poverty. Our business marketing communication styles from the 8...

In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be highlighting the power of history of storytelling. Stories have power. They have the power to emotionally engage people, to sway decisions, the power to transform, encourage, and edify. We can use this powerful tool to help our ministries grow ...

In this episode, we discuss the importance of guiding principles and story-driven messaging. This is episode 3 in a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand and story. Story is a powerful marketing tool, and today we’re discussing how story can be applied to your guiding principles and messaging structures.

In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re sharing our thoughts and insights on purpose-driven strategy. Every organization should have clear communication rooted in beliefs and a Why. Today, we’re going to share our thoughts on strategy and walk you through the process we take all of our clients.

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In this week's episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we are starting a new series where we'll be sharing our thoughts and insights on all things marketing and storytelling for the ministry space. This will be a 13-episode series where we'll go in-depth and share how we approach messaging, strategy, brand development, design, storytelling, and all things marketing. If you've ever wondered how we view brand and storytelling, you won't...

This week on The Ministry Growth Show we're joined by Baolerhu Lidgen, Founder and Executive Director of Asia Leadership Development Network. Baolerhu shares his insights leading a ministry based in Mongolia where Christianity was only recently introduced and the Mongolian church is young. Asia Leadership Development Network has a significant digital presence in the country and Baolerhu shares his insights leading in a digital age....