Facebook as a connecting point for church service

Last week I met with Tony Steward to talk through and help plan out how our new Sunday Night Service at Mariners Church could try and connect with those attending through facebook.  Tony was kind enough to put in paper and to blog about it.  Below are the first 2 steps.   To see the last 2 you need to check out his post here.

Internet Campus Starter Kit

1. Script, shoot, edit and post a 3 minute video for the Facebook community once a week

• Content
  • Graphic Lead in and Close for Service branding
  • Announcements
  • Teaching summary (”campus pastor” does a brief overview of main scripture and teaching)
  • Teaching challenge (”campus pastor” explains the challenge)
  • Prompt to share challenge results or teaching questions in discussion topics “below”
• Bonus / Extras
  • Ministry Highlight (small groups, retreat, etc.)
  • Event Highlight (social, movie night, etc.)

2. Monitor Facebook Community Daily

• Leave Wall comments on all new “fans” to the page
• Have “facebook team” friend all the people who are fans of the page
• Monitor discussion topics and be as catalytic as possible for generating conversation
• Create a topic for every weekends teaching title the same as the sermon with “Sermon:” then the title each week
• Create a topic for every event, and send out and event update