Finding beautiful images for your website can be time-consuming and expensive. So, we include hundreds of images as part of an Aboundant subscription, and we keep adding more. Check out the collection here. These images are uploaded in three formats: 4K Background...
When you're working on a new website, you have questions. Questions like... How do I make that section narrower? Is it possible to change what it says there? Why can't I make that image do what I want it to? Where do I go to find that setting? Sometimes, a simple...
Did you know that there are over 5000 airlines in the world? It's true, but most people in the United States use the 12 mainline options. The rest are niche airlines--great when you have a specific type of need, but useless if they don't fly in your area....
What's your wish for your church website? Really, we'd like you to think about that for a moment. Pick up that imaginary dandelion and blow... Wish granted. Over our next 30 posts below, we'll be telling you about some of Aboundant 3.0's amazing new features....
We have nothing to hide. Our theme of choice for WordPress-based websites is Divi, and only Divi. Few other themes even come close. It's what we use to build our own site, and it's what we offer our clients. And starting today, Aboundant is now powered by Divi 3.0,...
In the game of tennis, the word "advantage" means that one player has a one-point lead after a tie at deuce (40-40, or 3-3 in simple terms) and needs one additional point to win the game. When it comes to church websites, we believe that the advantages of WordPress...
In 1996, now megapastor Craig Groeschel was an associate pastor at a United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City. As I did, Craig studied business in college before choosing a life in ministry. In his book, Confessions of a Pastor, he alludes to presenting his church leadership with a plan to use modern marketing techniques. In 1996, marketing was a dirty word in the church, though obviously we have softened to the idea A) because it’s effective, and B) because when Jesus is the message, how can marketing it be wrong! The first time I heard this story (admittedly second hand) it was said that the answer Craig got was, “We’re not ready for that.” Evidently Groeschal disagreed. He decided to leave the United Methodist Church and open up his own church in his two car garage. This church became Life Church, which now has over 24 campuses and claims to be one of the largest churches in the United States.
Disruption: when a new technology significantly changes the way people live or do business, often challenging the status quo. It was in 1996 when then Vice President of Intel, Steven McGeady, claimed that the new tech boom was akin to the Reformation. He called it The Digital Reformation. His argument was not theological in nature; instead he compared the common person's level of access to technology in the modern era — to the mass access to religious freedom during the Reformation. In each case, the new paradigm led to rapid--indeed, “disruptive”--levels of cultural, political, and social-economic change. He noted that the difference between a reformation and a revolution is that reformations change everything, not just a single target.
Glocal: The idea that something is both global and local on the internet. “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth,” Jesus said in Acts 1:8. The ends of the earth have gotten a lot closer since the dawn of the internet. My denomination, The United Methodist Church, has a massive SMS text network that expands into the most remote villages in Africa. When the Ebola epidemic of 2014 hit, they used that network to offer hope, education and coordinated medical assistance, saving countless lives in the name of God. Think about that. To do that work in the past, we’d spend years training, funding, and relocating missionaries into the field, so that they could have access to just one village at a time.
Whether you want to do some basic photo editing, create an image for social media, or design a better church newsletter, there are many tools available. But if your church's budget for graphic design is small, don't worry! There are dozens of wonderful tools available for free or for far less than industry standards such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. Here are seven great apps or web-based tools to check out.
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