Getting started with social media in ministry.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA IN MINISTRY
@nathancreitz

2. 1. ESTABLISH
HOME BASE
Your website is the new front
door for your church.

3. 17,000,000+
Number of American non-churchgoing adults who visited
the website of a local church or place of worship in the
past 12 months.

4. BEN

5. $100
+ $5/mo

6. GETTING STARTED
1. Register domain ($12/yr)
and hosting plan ($4/mo)
2. Setup Wordpress (Free)
3. Purchase theme ($100)
4. Add pages and posts
5. Include social connectivity
6. Post regularly
7. Make it discoverable
8. Add e-mail optin form

7. MOST VISITED PAGES
1. Ministries
2. Events
3. Staff
4. Blog/Sermons
5. News
6. Mission
7. About/Service Times
8. Contact/Location
9. What We Believe
10. New Here
11. Give/Donate

8. Your website should focus on guests

9. focus on guests
Your website should resource members

10. 2. ADD
SOCIAL
MEDIA
Social media helps you share
your message and interact
with members.

11. 325,000,000
Mobile subscriptions in the US
165,000,000 +/-
use their mobile devices to engage on social media sites

12. 71%
Percentage of people in the US who are on Facebook

13. 90%
of consumers trust peer recommendations
14%
trust advertisements

14. 46.1%
Percentage of churches that reported social media was their
most effective means of outreach (Knocking on Doors -
24.7% / Newspaper - 14.3% / Radio - 9.1% / TV - 5.8%)

15. 88%
Social media-using teens who have witnessed other
people being mean or cruel on social network sites.

16. FACEBOOK

17. CAROL

19. GETTING STARTED
1. Setup a personal profile
at facebook.com
2. Find friends
3. Create a facebook page
4. Add cover photo, logo,
bio, etc.
5. Invite friends to “Like”
your page
6. Publish engaging content
7. Use images
8. Promote with targeted ad

20. TWITTER

23. GETTING STARTED
1. Setup an account at
twitter.com
2. Fill out your profile
3. Download the app for
your phone
4. Follow local influencers
5. Learn the terms (hashtag,
retweet, reply, direct
message, etc.)
6. Jab, jab, jab, right hook
7. Add value

24. OTHER SOCIAL
MEDIA NETWORKS

25. nathancreitz.net/social-media-resources