GOBA Church Resources

GOBA Baptist Builders

Mark Weible — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:00:00 GMT

Join us in working around Central Florida assisting our churches and new church plants with various construction needs. If you would like to volunteer your services, contact David Steele at baptistbuilders@goba.org or 407.293.0450.

Find Worship Leaders and Musicians

Staff — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Are you looking for worship personnel (instrumentalists, vocalists, worship leader, drama personnel, pulpit supply and more)to help with your worship services? We would like to introduce a great new worship resource where you can set up a profile for FREE to let worship personnel know you are looking for help!

Check it out at WorshipLeads.com

Church Advertising

Staff — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

GOBA staff is experienced in online advertising for local churches. We can help set up advertising campaigns on Google, Facebook, and other online sources for minimal to low cost. For more information, request a consultation from a staff member.

Barnabas Ministry - Caring for Neighbors

Staff — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

"Caring for Neighbors" helps equip, train, and encourage God's people as recipients of His love to express that same love to our neighbors.We all have neighbors. All of our neighbors have needs. God uses His people as His instruments through which to meet many of these needs through relationship building, skilled listening, identifying and responding to needs, and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Who is your neighbor?

Grant Hignight, Pastor of Central Parkway Baptist Church,Orlando Florida

Listen to Pastor Grant's presentation at the Florida Baptist Conventions 2012 Evangelism Conference: http://www.flbaptist.org/Portals/0/EVA/2012-Barnabas-Ministry-Caring-for-Neighbors.MP3

Affordable Custom Smartphone Apps for Churches

Staff — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The Church App is an affordable solution for churches wanting to be more effective at connecting with people via smart phones. While most smart-phone apps cost thousands of dollars to develop, The Church App has custom packages starting at $500. The developers have a strong desire to help churches to get the Word of God out to as many people as possible. They can create an app for your church that allows for long-play sermon audio and video. Small groups can use the app to stay connected and have access to their study materials. The church app is available for iPhone, Android, iPad, and Windows Phone 7. For more information, visit http://thechurchapp.org

Demographic and Economic Data

Staff — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Sources of Demographic and Economic Data for Central Florida:

Percept Group: Link2Lead Demographic Reports for Florida Baptist Churches

US Census Bureau Quick Facts

Impacting Beyond Your Four Walls by Going Multi-Site

Staff — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:00:00 GMT

A multi-site church is one church meeting in multiple locations – different venues for worship and/or mission on the same campus, different locations in the same region/city – even different states or nations.

Launching into any conversation about the possibility of going multi-site begins with a growing understanding of what multi-site is about and discovering how it can help your church better fulfill the Great Commission! Our goal in this paper is to provide you with an overview of the multi-site movement while offering you some observations to guide your thinking as you seek the will of the Father on whether you should transition to a multi-site church.

Eleven Consequences of a Pre-mature Launch

Staff — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:00:00 GMT

It has always amazed me how many church planters and churches sponsoring churches often rush to launch prematurely! Often the church planter in his zeal to begin weekly worship meetings actually begins to hold weakly worship meetings all because he decided to launch before he was ready. Sometimes even the sponsoring church will rush the new work to launch in order to get it up and running and sadly on its own. Launching a new work by God’s glory and for God’s glory is a Holy Spirit directed endeavor. Launching too late is as much a hindrance as launching too early so it is vital we get in on God’s agenda by allowing the Lord to guide in the particular timeliness of the launch. So let’s journey together for a moment as we look at the eleven consequences of a premature launch.

Introduction to Church Planting Centers

Staff — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Like many, when you read the words Church Planting Center you may have thought of an

individual church that through an internship program prepares one or two individuals each
year to plant new churches. Or, you might be picturing a network of churches with a heart for
advancing the kingdom partnering together to support a church planter. Both of these
examples exist and they are impacting lives with the gospel. But it is only one way to go
about the planting of churches and the making of disciples.

Picture a church (regardless of size) where it is “normal” for disciples of Jesus to establish
relational environments that are conducive to disciple-making and mission in their homes,
workplaces or in other venues. They would invite their friends, neighbors and family
members to experience community and explore issues of faith. These groups, and therefore
its members, understand that their mission is to make disciples who make disciples.
Potential leaders from among these new disciples are identified, developed and empowered
to repeat the process once again – in a different location or within another sphere of
relationships. And from this process comes the possibility of new churches being started and
the identification and development of church planters. We would classify this type of church a
church planting center as well and yet their focus is not upon the development of professional
church planters or even church planting, but rather, the deployment of disciples into the
harvest to make disciples and form faith communities.

Therefore we have found that there are two basic approaches to planting churches among
churches and centers, (1) the development of trained church planters (by one or a group of
churches) and (2) the deployment of everyday Christ followers into the harvest to make
disciples and form simple, easily reproducible faith communities as an expression of their
quest to fulfill the Great Commission in their community. More... Dowload the full document

Free Professional Websites for Churches

Staff — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

GOBA affiliated churches can receive free professional quality stater websites from ministrywebsites.biz . These websites are built on an easy to use content management system that is SEO (search engine optimization) friendly. Church staff and volunteers can easily add text content, calendar events, audio/video, etc. For more information visit ministrywebsites.biz or call 800.977.8932.

Seven Steps for Planting Churches

Staff — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Open publication - Free publishing - More sponsor church

Custom Demographic Reports

Staff — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

GOBA churches have free access to custom demographic reports through Link2Lead.com. The Florida Baptist Convention has an annual contract with the Percept Group, which allows affiliated churches to create unlimited custom demographic reports. Church leaders who register online can access these reports along with valuable leadership resorces.

We encourage you to explore Link2Lead and take advantage of the information resources accessible to you 24/7—knowing they always feature the most current demographic data available.

For really quick demographic reports for your zip code, try zipskinny.com.

Search Engine Optimization

Staff — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and refers to techniques and best practices that help websites to get listed higher in search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. For example, a church that is reaching people near the University of Central Florida wants to optimize their website so that they show near the top whenever someone searches for "church near ucf". That is exactly what First Baptist Church of Union Park does and the church is consistently listed in the #1 spot on Google for the search phrase "church near ucf"

GOBA can help train your church's web ministry team to optimize your church's website, market your church online through paid search ads, develop social media campaigns and mobile marketing. Contact Mark Weible for more information at 407-293-0450.

Search Engine Marketing

Staff — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

GOBA can provide churches a $100 coupon to advertise on Google for new accounts. The coupon must be applied to the account within the first two weeks of account creation. For more information, contact Mark Weible at 407-293-0450.

Natural Church Development

Staff — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Natural Church Development is a church health assessment that is Biblically-based and scientifically verified.

The hypothesis of Christian Schwartz's research is that healthy churches are growing churches and that churches increase their capacity for growth when they are healthy enough to multiply. The initial research focused on 8 quality characteristics that healthy churches have in common. After 15 years and 45,000 churches surveyed in 70 countries, the data continues to be validated that churches who follow this process see average annual growth increase of 51% The NCD assessment tool measures the health of a church in these 8 essential areas:

Empowering leadership
Gift-based ministry
Passionate spirituality
Functional structures
Inspiring worship
Holistic small groups
Need-based evangelism
Loving relationships

GOBA has a certified coach with over 10 years of experience in Natural Church Development. Mark Weible has worked with churches in Texas and Florida through the NCD process. For more information about Natural Church Development contact Mark at 407-293-0450.