Gourds and Pomegranates - Comms Advice for UK churches

Episode 50 — Our top 10 church comms tips of all time ever!! In this special celebratory episode, we go through our top tips for churches in how they communicate, with a few bonus mentions and highlights thrown in. We cover prioritisation, excellence, planning, stories, people… and more! We’ll refer back to a lot of previous episodes, which are listed below for your ease of f

In this episode, we think about the dreaded task of knocking on people’s doors and the general role that print publicity can play as part of a church communications strategy. Mentioned in this episode: G&P Episode 9 — Terrible Church Posters Canva Training Trio Webinar Canva G&P Episode 41 — What does excellence look like in church comms? Find out more about the

Trigger Warning: Spiritual Abuse In this episode, we discuss Spiritual Abuse. What is it and what can we do to recognise and avoid it, whilst communicating with sensitivity to those who have been hurt. Mentioned in this episode: Book - Marcus Honeysett - Powerful Leaders Diary of a CEO - Stephen Bartlett Find Francesca online: www.linktr.ee/ssa.restart www.survivingspiritualabu

In this episode, we cover our favourite church comms resources. Gourds & Pomegranates is one of many resources aimed at churches, each with their own individual flavours and benefits. So as to best serve you, we’ve created a page at ⁠https://gppodcast.uk/resources⁠ where we’ll add any new resources we come across and try to keep things up to date. But for now… mention

In this episode, we cover something that’s often forgotten about — how to actually lead a church service in a way which is helpful and engaging. To help us cover as much of a range of church backgrounds and cultures as possible, we have contributions from a number of friendly voices — some of which you might just recognise. Mentioned in this episode: G&P Episode 34 —

In this episode, we welcome the brilliant James Doc, to talk about all things church and tech and to find out a bit more about Kingdom Code. Tickets for Kingdom Code’s Build event in October are now available at https://kingdomcode.org.uk/build/2024/ Mentioned in this episode: Kingdom Code Build Faith Tech Christian AI Partnership Basil Tech Breeze Translate Real Time Tran

In this episode, we talk about how we can bring people into the comms team within your church. We believe that digital and comms are a ministry and giftings area and it’s important to have the right people onboard. So we talk about aspects to think about such as strategy, onboarding and workload priorities. Find out more about the show - GPpodcast.uk Like and follow us on Faceboo

In this episode we chat to 3 church leaders from very different contexts, all about how their church vision fits together with the way they communicate. This one is a bit of a mammoth — it’s longer than usual but it’s absolutely packed with fascinating insights that can inspire you in your own church context. Mentioned in this episode: Support us making G&P — Buy me a

In this episode, we talk about things to think about when wanting to invite people to attend our events — whatever they might be. It can be really frustrating putting loads of effort in to organising something - only to have a handful of people turn up. So we chat about a few aspects of event planning, promotion, post event comms and how inviting people to events can be a great c

In this episode we speak with Liz — a marketer with loads of church comms experience, including several roles within the Church of England. We cover ways to encourage volunteers to get started, knowing where to focus, going back to basics and even some of the unique communications opportunities faced by C of E churches in the UK. Connect with Liz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz