Comments on: 10 Commandments of Starting a Media Ministry http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/ Change Revolution Tue, 22 May 2012 02:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Good Christian TV? | harleyandmakara http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/#comment-15670 Good Christian TV? | harleyandmakara Sat, 12 May 2012 09:14:57 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/mediaministry#comment-15670 [...] Click here to read the rest of this article. Making Religious TV Work [...] [...] Click here to read the rest of this article. Making Religious TV Work [...]

]]> By: Stephen Rk http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/#comment-11426 Stephen Rk Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:35:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/mediaministry#comment-11426 it was good and precise information about starting the media ministry... thank you for your editor to bring out the useful informations and mainly spoke about lacking and lagging the christiadom it was good and precise information about starting the media ministry… thank you for your editor to bring out the useful informations and mainly spoke about lacking and lagging the christiadom

]]> By: Audra Braxton http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/#comment-10871 Audra Braxton Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:47:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/mediaministry#comment-10871 Correction I have been in the computer field for 20 years and am now starting the Christian (Media) Ministry. Thank you Audra Braxton Correction
I have been in the computer field for 20 years and am now starting the Christian (Media) Ministry.

Thank you Audra Braxton

]]> By: Audra Braxton http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/#comment-10870 Audra Braxton Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:44:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/mediaministry#comment-10870 Wow this is awesome information. I have been in the computer field for 20 years and am now starting the crhistian ministry. I do understand this is the behind the scenes environment and will gladly welcome any ideas for starting this ministry up. Thank you for your 10 Commandments of Media ministry. I am also doing a lot of research and praying so I can get this part of our church's ministry started. Again any advice is greatly appreciated. God Bless. Audra Braxton Wow this is awesome information. I have been in the computer field for 20 years and am now starting the crhistian ministry. I do understand this is the behind the scenes environment and will gladly welcome any ideas for starting this ministry up. Thank you for your 10 Commandments of Media ministry. I am also doing a lot of research and praying so I can get this part of our church’s ministry started. Again any advice is greatly appreciated. God Bless. Audra Braxton

]]> By: Madira http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/#comment-10528 Madira Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:26:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/mediaministry#comment-10528 Wow,wow wow, Thank you for such a good advise. I work in a Christian Channel Industry and feel Our Channel is so boring and that we need Ideas to attract more viewers.All our channel does is preach,day in and day out.Please help with ideas that can get our channels more lively and exciting. Thanks, Madira keyarona@webmail.co.za Wow,wow wow, Thank you for such a good advise. I work in a Christian Channel Industry and feel Our Channel is so boring and that we need Ideas to attract more viewers.All our channel does is preach,day in and day out.Please help with ideas that can get our channels more lively and exciting.
Thanks,
Madira
keyarona@webmail.co.za

]]> By: susan http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/#comment-10379 susan Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:38:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/mediaministry#comment-10379 I REALLY LIKE THESES GREAT POINTS. THE ONE I LOV THE MOST IS TELLING THE STORY. WE ARE ALL TO DO ONE THING, AND THAT IS BRINGING THE MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST TO A DYEING WORLD. GOD BLESS ! I REALLY LIKE THESES GREAT POINTS. THE ONE I LOV THE MOST IS TELLING THE STORY. WE ARE ALL TO DO ONE THING, AND THAT IS BRINGING THE MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST TO A DYEING WORLD. GOD BLESS !

]]> By: Freethinker http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/#comment-279 Freethinker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/mediaministry#comment-279 <p>Awesome points.  Also, please remind the preachers to trust and listen to the professionals they hired in the first place to run their media ministry.  Many times I've seen or heard that the preachers struggle much with their huge egos, thus making life unbearable for their professional production staff.  Also, don't work your staff to death to the point of frustrating them and many times causing them to end up hating their jobs.  Please tell the preachers to be understanding that a 30 second spot does not take 30 seconds to put together.  That hiring a person to do the job of 5 is not effective nor fair; and that underpaying them (according to industry salaries) and working them to death to the point of burning them out over time is not going to save them any money.  A big, old-schooled, well-known tent and healing evangelist from Oklahoma used to talked a lot to his audiences about sowing seeds and being generous, while his production staff was often times excessively overworked, yelled at, underpaid, frustrated by the leadership, burned out, and many times controlled by the fear of being eliminated from their jobs.  A good lesson to learn is that preachers need to practice at home what they preach to the outsiders; and for us, the staff, to learn to forgive them and never to equate the mega-healing and big-time TV evangelist to Christ Himself no matter powerful they seem, for often times they are just like the us. </p> Awesome points.  Also, please remind the preachers to trust and listen to the professionals they hired in the first place to run their media ministry.  Many times I’ve seen or heard that the preachers struggle much with their huge egos, thus making life unbearable for their professional production staff.  Also, don’t work your staff to death to the point of frustrating them and many times causing them to end up hating their jobs.  Please tell the preachers to be understanding that a 30 second spot does not take 30 seconds to put together.  That hiring a person to do the job of 5 is not effective nor fair; and that underpaying them (according to industry salaries) and working them to death to the point of burning them out over time is not going to save them any money.  A big, old-schooled, well-known tent and healing evangelist from Oklahoma used to talked a lot to his audiences about sowing seeds and being generous, while his production staff was often times excessively overworked, yelled at, underpaid, frustrated by the leadership, burned out, and many times controlled by the fear of being eliminated from their jobs.  A good lesson to learn is that preachers need to practice at home what they preach to the outsiders; and for us, the staff, to learn to forgive them and never to equate the mega-healing and big-time TV evangelist to Christ Himself no matter powerful they seem, for often times they are just like the us. 

]]> By: Freethinker http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/#comment-280 Freethinker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/mediaministry#comment-280 <p>Correction on the last line:</p><p>...for oftentimes they are just like the rest of us. </p> Correction on the last line:

…for oftentimes they are just like the rest of us. 

]]> By: Will http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/#comment-281 Will Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/mediaministry#comment-281 <p> Excellent guidelines Phil, especially the last paragraph, as long as "success" is not measured in the popular understanding of the word. </p> <p> Thanks for all the good work you're doing to assist Christian media ministry. I've read your books and found them all to be thought provoking and encouraging. </p> <p> God Bless </p> Excellent guidelines Phil, especially the last paragraph, as long as "success" is not measured in the popular understanding of the word.

Thanks for all the good work you’re doing to assist Christian media ministry. I’ve read your books and found them all to be thought provoking and encouraging.

God Bless

]]> By: Anthony Peterson http://philcooke.com/mediaministry/#comment-282 Anthony Peterson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/mediaministry#comment-282 <p> It would also be handy if there was a functional business model for Christian television. The current model resembles a money pit. Paying for production and airtime to broadcast in an area 95% of which is beyond the catchment of your local church is extremely wasteful. As a consequence, you will be forced to "quasi-commercialize" by flogging products or directly appealing for money on air or both. Theres no economic incentive for high production values,  which explains why most christian television is really low quality. </p> <p> Theres also the little questions of "what exactly are you trying to achieve"? "how can this be measured"? and "how does the cost of achieving via television compare with alternate means"?. Its a benchmarkign issue. </p> <p> Solve the three problems of geographic disparity, freeloading and benchmarking and you just might have a vaild reason for investing precious church resources into television. </p> It would also be handy if there was a functional business model for Christian television. The current model resembles a money pit. Paying for production and airtime to broadcast in an area 95% of which is beyond the catchment of your local church is extremely wasteful. As a consequence, you will be forced to "quasi-commercialize" by flogging products or directly appealing for money on air or both. Theres no economic incentive for high production values,  which explains why most christian television is really low quality.

Theres also the little questions of "what exactly are you trying to achieve"? "how can this be measured"? and "how does the cost of achieving via television compare with alternate means"?. Its a benchmarkign issue.

Solve the three problems of geographic disparity, freeloading and benchmarking and you just might have a vaild reason for investing precious church resources into television.

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