It is January, warmer than most, which I am thankful for. This month we are leaping into the year starting up our year 1 team trainings, meeting up with the returning team members, and kicking off the year with an excellent board meeting. We are so excited about all that is happening, how God is […]
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We serve a creative God! He has blessed us with many talents and abilities. Some have very obvious applications in everyday life. Others may seem like more of a hobby than something that could bless others. Do you love to write but don’t see use in your job or during your daily routine? Serve God
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This newsletter update is going to be a little bit different than our typical monthly newsletter. That is because our meetup was different this month. We had our team of volunteers over at my house (Wesley’s House). We had a great dinner and discussed next year and this past year. It was such a fun
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This month our team members and the non-profits that we get to work with learned about site updates and plug-ins. Christ Link T-shirts were given to the volunteers and team members too. If you see someone wearing one, ask them about it! What Christ Link Has Been Doing We’ve been very busy recently, and we
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This month our team members and the non-profits that we get to work with are trained on design for websites. Hannah got a picture of training in action so check out the crew below! You can also check out the team on our fancy new team page. Our September Prayer Requests Please continue to be
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After our two month summer break, our team members and the non-profits are back at it this month. Growing our web and digital marketing skills to help our nonprofit partners grow and reach more people. All of this is to help these Christian organizations save the lost. This month we focused on event marketing, which
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Last month we had such a successful workshop that we continued our work on keyword research and developed our focus and efforts in writing content for our nonprofits. This Christ Link team members workshopped the process of writing and developing blog posts. Additionally, the design team is working on recording interviews to show more of
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After our team’s first month focusing on their own independent focused trainings we had an in-person workshop focused on keyword research and blog post research. This training was different from all of the past meetings because we got to work together as a team in a whole new way! There were a few fun successes
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This month at Christ Link team members started to choose their areas of focus. This is so exciting because it is like choosing your college classes. Prayer Requests As always we like to open with our prayer requests. A lot of them will be similar to last month’s so let us continue to be praying
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We got a few warm days this month and the Christ Link team is warming up in our trainings. The training was focused on Marketing 101 where we broke apart marketing as a whole and took a step back to see the whole forest (since you can’t see the forest through the trees. This month
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Christ Link is off to a great start in 2022! Last year after getting approved as an official 501(c)3 nonprofit, we pivoted more of our attention towards building our team and training them. The success of Christ Link depends on volunteers who make it their mission to help Christian organizations with their marketing. Prayer Requests
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Ways To Serve God There are many ways you can serve God. As a Christian who is saved by grace you should always be considering how you can serve God with your life. Below are a few ideas of how you can serve God and make sure you’re living a life to honor Him and
Hi! My name is Hannah Noecker and I’d like to tell you about how God has been using me while serving at Christ Link. Let me just start off by saying this: I am NOT a computer person. My knowledge of computers has been limited to copy and paste shortcuts. When my computer freezes or
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Happy Spring! What Has Been Happening At Christ Link? Hello everyone! So as always I am terrible at updating you on what is happening at Christ Link! I always feel like I have a million things to say and it would be way more effective if I just told everyone about it weekly. Either way,
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SEO And The Church? In the video and script below you will understand the purpose of SEO, what it could look like for the church and why we should be doing it. Learn about it, and join us in our mission. I want to encourage you to volunteer at Christ Link to help us in
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This newsletter update is going to be a bit shorter and to the point. Why? First, because I actually already wrote this once and then technical difficulties happened and deleted everything I wrote which was quite upsetting. The other reason is that we’ve started posting updates on social media! That is something for you. If
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Hello all of you beautiful people! How was your summer? Any cool vacations? I bet they were actually warm unless you went to Antarctica. Did you enjoy the beautiful weather? I know, I know, I have not been writing you and I apologize. It has been an extremely active summer and I am excited to
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And just like that, the summer is over. Well, not for me. The summer isn’t over until I have to wear a coat every day of the week. So I’ve got at least 3 more months. Our Board’s Activities What have we been up to? We have been tackling the steps in getting approved as
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It is so warm! Summer is in full swing and after we had the first meetings we were able to hit the ground running this month. Our accomplishments have primarily been internal in setting up our trainings to be more effective. We were all able to apply to a bunch of things required for nonprofit
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June was a wild time as quarantine dragged on and the world seemed to be in chaos, but Christ Link was able to start up our team trainings since group meeting restrictions were dropped and we had our first-ever board meeting. This was so good and such a great time to get the tone, organization
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March 2020 Newsletter Hello, all of you wonderful people suffering from cabin fever! I’ve got something for you to do between your trips to the fridge and naps. Reading this newsletter update of course! I know, I know, Christ Link has been really quiet on social media recently and you are probably wondering where we
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Are You Using Internet Marketing As A Tool If any of you have spoken to me or asked me about what internet marketing is – by the way, my name is Wesley, pleased to meet you (awkward online handshake). Like I was saying, if I have ever discussed internet marketing in person with you I
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Newsletters are weird. Do you post them at the beginning of the month and tell everyone about the previous month and what is going to be happening or do you post it at the end of the month and brag a little bit about all you have accomplished. . . or not accomplished. I’m planning
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Happy New Year! I’m excited to bring you into this year with some 2020 vision and what is going on this month! This is our very first newsletter and I will be sure to make it a habit of writing these monthly. Newsletters are kind of a new thing for me as I branch into
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A Unified Church is Essential for Effective Online Marketing Whether your church has been doing online marketing for a while, or just created your website, you know that disunity within your church will hinder its growth. In order to communicate effectively on online mediums, your church needs to communicate effectively internally. This will not only
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What Causes Church Disunity? Starting a church is energizing, exciting and stressful. Maintaining, no, growing a church is completely different from starting a church. When starting a church everyone is unified because there is a clear end goal. Discomforts could exist because it was a journey, but now that the goal has been reached there
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Social media is a tool. How you utilize any tool is determined by what it does. Many churches fail to see what social media truly is. It is not a billboard or a platform, it is not a place to bring glory to yourself or to use it like a business, it is a tool
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Hello, my name is Wesley A. Gehman and I am the founder of Christ Link. Basic Overview of Christ Link At a very basic level, Christ Link provides internet marketing like SEO or PPC and web design for free to Churches and Christian organizations. On a higher level, our purpose is to create unity within
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