Community is not limited to the walls of your campus. Connect your congregation to the mission and ministry of your church online. Through videos, hashtags, and other social media platforms, your church can create an online community that connects the multigenerational members of your congregation.

1. Media Connections
Meredith Whitefield
Media Director
St John Lutheran Church, Cypress, TX

2. #hashtag
 Church Hashtag
 Useful Across Social Media
Platforms
 Online Community for Members

3. #hashtag
 Different Hashtags for Different
Ministries
 30 Opportunities to Reach Out
 What is local to your town?

4. Instagram
 Connect to Youth
 Different Audience, Same Message
 Instagram Stories
 Instagram Live

5. What do I post?
 Boomerangs
 “Photo Albums”
 Countdowns
 Regrams
 <1 Minute Videos

7. Alleluia, It’s Lent!
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8. VBS Offering Goal
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9. Videos in Worship
 Sermon Bumpers
 Gospel Readings
 Story Telling
 Ministry Highlights
 Announcements

10. Cardboard Testimonies
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11. Holy Hilarity
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12. Videos on Social Media
 People
 Stories
 Calls To Action
 Humor

13. Christmas in the Arts
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14. Donuts with Dad
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15. Dads Donate Diapers
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16. Meredith Whitefield
mwhitefield@stjohn.tv
Media Director
St John Lutheran Church, Cypress, TX