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Author: Tom Pounder

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Enjoy the Moments

April 3, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments family ministry, hardship, joy, life, moments, picture, social media, student ministry

One morning I was headed down to Arlington, Virginia for an early morning meeting. And with Arlington being so close

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Can Twitter be Saved and How Churches can Use it Better

March 29, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments church, facebook, prayer, social media, Support, twitter

I love Twitter. There are no if, ands or buts about it. I enjoy interacting on it, using hashtags and

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How to Create a Well Rounded Volunteer Youth Leadership Team

March 27, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 3 Comments family ministry, leaders, Leadership, student ministry, team, volunteers

Who is on your student ministry volunteer leadership team? How diverse is it? Who are the adults you are looking

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How to Create an Effective Facebook Group

March 22, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments community, facebook, group, online

Facebook Groups are all the rage right now and for go reason. A Facebook Group can be a very effective

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How to Make Sure You are Taking Care of Yourself

March 20, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments health, hope, joy, life, process, sabbath

It’s been a great time in my life where I have been doing a lot of re-evaluating of where I

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The Differences between Branding, Marketing and Advertising

March 15, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments advertising, branding, communications, marketing, social media

Being relatively new to the Church Communicators world, I have the opportunity to talk to many great communicators and digital

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Join the 2017 YM Sidekick Bracket Challenge

March 14, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments basketball, bracket, challenge, fun, ncaa

Over the last few years we have done an NCAA Bracket Challenge for all the readers of the blog and

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How giving up your smartphone for a day helps you

March 13, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 1 Comment sabbath, smartphone

The other day I posed a question that I had been thinking about for a little bit on my personal Facebook

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Creating Effective Online Life Groups

March 8, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments home group, life group, online, online life group, small group

Life groups are very effective ways for churches create community and disciple people. However, what do you do with Online

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Connect with Influencers on Twitter

March 6, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments social media, twitter

Being on Facebook has a lot of advantages. There is no doubt about that. However, Twitter has some avantages as

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