Earlier news items

7th September 2013

One of John's latest writing projects is a distance learning module written on behalf of the UK Church Administrator Network for St John's College, Nottingham. Details have been announced today.

1st August 2013

Another major new article was uploaded to the Resources section of the site today, one that tackles ideas that are often overlooked.

Helping people back to church (Article A31) considers not the human aspects of a welcome ministry but the ideas of presence in the local community, helping people get into your church building and letting the surroundings speak positive messages to a visitor.

22nd July 2013

There are over 100 different items in the Resources section of the website and the aim is to check and update every one within two years of its last update. This is one of the benefits of web publishing and means that every item is in a current form.

26th June 2013

The website in its current design is soon to celebrate its third birthday and plans are currently being made for a number of developments later this year.  To give some idea of growth in that time, 25 free items for downloading and printing have been added to the Resources section, circulation of the bimonthly resources e-letters has tripled from 600 to over 1,800 and Church Administrator membership has more than doubled from under 400 to over 800.

31st May 2013

A new set of Training Notes uploaded to the website today encourages churches to write columns for their local newspapers whenever such opportunities are offered. TN75, Writing for the media, takes a case study of a weekly column in a free St Albans newspaper.

15th May 2013

The two Twitter feeds associated with this site now have over 500 followers between them. This is still a fraction short of the 37 million who follow Lady Gaga but we are on the way!