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  • The Pro Church Tools Show with Brady Shearer

    The New Church Bulletin Design [Building Block #5]

    05/08/2026 | 30 mins.
    GET YOUR CHAOS SCORE: https://prochur.ch/3T8zQzz

    The more you announce, the less they listen. But every ministry you turn down walks away feeling like their event doesn't matter.

    Today, we'll unpack the weekly bulletin - one place where everything gets seen without stealing a second of Sunday.

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    Table of Contents:

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    0:00 - Intro

    3:11 - The 7 Building Blocks

    4:30 - Building Block #5: Create the Weekly Bulletin

    7:04 - Why Did The "Old" Weekly Bulletin Fail?

    10:34 - Setting Up The Digital Bulletin

    17:58 - The Reason The Bulletin Works

    24:23 - How To Promote The Digital Bulletin

    28:21 - Final Thoughts

    IMPORTANT LINKS

    - Get Your Chaos Score: https://prochur.ch/3T8zQzz

    - The 7 Building Blocks PDF: https://prochur.ch/building-blocks

    - The Church Communications Masterclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aETNv9BoDzQ


    THE 167 NEWSLETTER

    📫 62,646+ churches read our free newsletter to figure out the 167 hours beyond Sunday service every week. Sign up: https://167.prochurchtools.com

    GET IN TOUCH

    🌍 The Company: https://prochurchtools.com

    🖥️ Nucleus, The Church Website Builder:  https://www.nucleus.church

    📱 SocialSermons, The Social Media Agency For Churches: https://socialsermons.com 
    JOIN THE COMMUNITY

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradyshearer/

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    🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradyshearer


    ABOUT ME

    Well hey there! I'm Brady Shearer, the creator and director of Pro Church Tools. I started this channel more than 10 years ago. Today our company is a team of 30+ creatives dedicated to helping your church navigate the biggest communication shift in 500 years.
  • The Pro Church Tools Show with Brady Shearer

    The Church Event Promotions Playbook [Building Block #4]

    29/07/2026 | 43 mins.
    GET YOUR CHAOS SCORE: https://prochur.ch/3TNrMnO
    Your biggest event gets under-promoted. A tiny ministry floods the feed - because one passionate leader pushed hard.
    Today, we'll unpack the playbooks that answer "how will my event get promoted?" before anyone asks - what channels, what timing, what assets.
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    Table of Contents:
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    0:00 - Intro
    1:27 - The 7 Building Blocks
    4:00 - Building Block #4: Supply Promotions Playbooks
    7:50 - Step 1 - Take Inventory of Every Channel
    14:14 - Step 2 - Define Your Promo Formats
    14:44 - Sprinkle Promos
    16:43 - Sprint Promos
    17:52 - Smuggle Promos
    20:38 - Equipping Leaders With the Promotions Playbooks
    26:52 - Example Promotional Playbook for Level 1
    41:27 - Final Thoughts

    IMPORTANT LINKS
    - Get Your Chaos Score: https://prochur.ch/3TNrMnO
    - The 7 Building Blocks PDF: https://prochur.ch/building-blocks
    - The Church Communications Masterclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aETNv9BoDzQ

    THE 167 NEWSLETTER
    📫 62,646+ churches read our free newsletter to figure out the 167 hours beyond Sunday service every week. Sign up: https://167.prochurchtools.com

    GET IN TOUCH
    🌍 The Company: https://prochurchtools.com
    🖥️ Nucleus, The Church Website Builder:  https://www.nucleus.church
    📱 SocialSermons, The Social Media Agency For Churches: https://socialsermons.com 

    JOIN THE COMMUNITY
    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradyshearer/
    🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bradyshearer 
    🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradyshearer

    ABOUT ME
    Well hey there! I'm Brady Shearer, the creator and director of Pro Church Tools. I started this channel more than 10 years ago. Today our company is a team of 30+ creatives dedicated to helping your church navigate the biggest communication shift in 500 years.
  • The Pro Church Tools Show with Brady Shearer

    The Secret Weapon of Church Communications [Building Block #3]

    22/07/2026 | 43 mins.
    GET YOUR CHAOS SCORE: https://prochur.ch/4ylExWR

    Announce everything, and people tune out. Cut back, and entire ministries vanish.

    Today, we'll unpack Building Block #3 - giving every ministry a home so visibility no longer depends on stage time - with real examples from churches already running it.

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    Table of Contents:

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    0:00 - Intro

    6:25 - Building Block #3: Give Each Ministry A Home

    9:11 - Real Church Testimony

    10:36 - What is a Post Collection?

    20:20 - The SEO benefit of Post Collections in an AI-Search world

    22:30 - Examples from outside the church world

    23:49 - Organizing your communications

    25:26 - Alex's Post Collections

    27:07 - Small Group Post Collections

    29:42 - How this play into The 7 Building Blocks?

    31:40 - Why are we doing Free Church Communications Makeovers?

    37:04 - Do Post Collections work outside of Nucleus?

    38:06 - The Secret Post Collection You'll Love

    IMPORTANT LINKS

    - Get Your Chaos Score: https://prochur.ch/4ylExWR

    - Free Communications Makeover: https://www.makeover.church

    - The 7 Building Blocks PDF: https://prochur.ch/building-blocks

    - The Church Communications Masterclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aETNv9BoDzQ

    - Life Abundant Post Hub: https://www.lifeabundant.info/posts

    - Nucleus Posts Demo: https://life-demo.nucleus.church/posts

    THE 167 NEWSLETTER

    📫 62,646+ churches read our free newsletter to figure out the 167 hours beyond Sunday service every week. Sign up: https://167.prochurchtools.com

    GET IN TOUCH

    🌍 The Company: https://prochurchtools.com

    🖥️ Nucleus, The Church Website Builder:  https://www.nucleus.church

    📱 SocialSermons, The Social Media Agency For Churches: https://socialsermons.com

    JOIN THE COMMUNITY

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradyshearer/

    🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bradyshearer

    🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradyshearer

    ABOUT ME

    Well hey there! I'm Brady Shearer, the creator and director of Pro Church Tools. I started this channel more than 10 years ago. Today our company is a team of 30+ creatives dedicated to helping your church navigate the biggest communication shift in 500 years.
  • The Pro Church Tools Show with Brady Shearer

    The Rulebook For Church Communications [Building Block #2]

    15/07/2026 | 50 mins.
    GET YOUR CHAOS SCORE: https://prochur.ch/4fyiowP
     
    More announcements. More stage time. More reminders.
    That's how most churches try to get people to listen - but across the audits we've run, the average service crams in 7 announcements and points people to 8.7 different destinations, and the more we say, the less they hear.

    Today, we'll install Building Block #2: a six-part publish policy that decides what your church says from stage, where every promo points, and how to move people from awareness to action.

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    Table of Contents:

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    0:00 - Intro

    5:01 - Recap of Building Block #1

    5:57 - Building Block #2: Publish Policy

    8:24 - Policy Item #1: Awareness Is Not Interest

    16:35 - Policy Item #2: Sunday Is Not Your Savior

    18:48 - Policy Item #3: The More You Announce, the Less They Listen

    25:35 - Policy Item #4: Inspiration Over Information

    38:49 - Policy Item #5: One Destination for Every Promo

    43:26 - Policy Item #6: Values Dictate Voice
     
    IMPORTANT LINKS

    - GET YOUR CHAOS SCORE: https://prochur.ch/4fyiowP

    - The 7 Building Blocks PDF: https://prochur.ch/building-blocks

    - The Church Communications Masterclass: https://youtu.be/aETNv9BoDzQ
     
    THE 167 NEWSLETTER

    📫 62,646+ churches read our free newsletter to figure out the 167 hours beyond Sunday service every week. Sign up: https://167.prochurchtools.com
     
    GET IN TOUCH

    🌍 The Company: https://prochurchtools.com

    🖥️ Nucleus, The Church Website Builder:  https://www.nucleus.church

    📱 SocialSermons, The Social Media Agency For Churches: https://socialsermons.com 
     
    JOIN THE COMMUNITY

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradyshearer/

    🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bradyshearer

    🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradyshearer
    ABOUT ME

    Well hey there! I'm Brady Shearer, the creator and director of Pro Church Tools. I started this channel more than 10 years ago. Today our company is a team of 30+ creatives dedicated to helping your church navigate the biggest communication shift in 500 years.
  • The Pro Church Tools Show with Brady Shearer

    Church Communications 101: The 7 Building Blocks

    08/07/2026 | 44 mins.
    GET YOUR CHAOS SCORE: https://prochur.ch/4p2CGSk

    Sunday announcements drag. Too many events, too much competition for attention, ministries quietly fighting to be heard from the stage. But the problem isn't effort - it's the lack of a system underneath. This is The 7 Building Blocks, our summer blueprint for fixing church communications, and today we start with Block 1: assigning a level to every ministry. We'll break down the four communication levels and audit two real churches to show you exactly what no hierarchy sounds like from the stage.
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    Table of Contents:
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    0:00 - Intro
    0:37 - Why Churches Struggle with Communications
    2:46 - The 3 Problems of Church Communications
    8:02 - The 7 Building Blocks
    9:53 - Building Block #1: Assign Levels To Every Ministry
    16:21 - Church Announcement Example #1 
    35:43 - Church Announcement Example #2 

    IMPORTANT LINKS
    - Get Your Chaos Score (Free 38-Point Diagnostic): https://prochur.ch/4p2CGSk
    - The 7 Building Blocks PDF: https://prochur.ch/building-blocks
    - The Church Communications Masterclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aETNv9BoDzQ

    THE 167 NEWSLETTER
    📫 62,646+ churches read our free newsletter to figure out the 167 hours beyond Sunday service every week. Sign up: https://167.prochurchtools.com

    GET IN TOUCH
    🌍 The Company: https://prochurchtools.com
    🖥️ Nucleus, The Church Website Builder:  https://www.nucleus.church
    📱 SocialSermons, The Social Media Agency For Churches: https://socialsermons.com 

    JOIN THE COMMUNITY
    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradyshearer
    🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bradyshearer
    🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/bradyshearer
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About The Pro Church Tools Show with Brady Shearer
Helping your church navigate the biggest communication shift in 500 years. Hosted by Brady Shearer and Alexander Mills.
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