Posted by zostay on November 6, 2007 at 5:41am
< 100
20% (7 votes)
100 - 250
26% (9 votes)
250 - 500
23% (8 votes)
500 - 1,000
14% (5 votes)
1,000 - 10,000
14% (5 votes)
> 10,000
3% (1 vote)
Total votes: 35
Comments
Disclaimer/Explanation
I do not believe church numbers are at all significant to how "good" your church is. However, I am curious to know of the folks interested in this group how large your church community is.
Obviously, I'd think that for a Drupal-based web site to be very successful in the community aspect, the bigger churches are going to fare better as far as participation is going. As such, with our small to medium church size, it's mostly just a publishing engine for our sermon podcast.
Active users
It would be great if we could also see how many active users there are for the community sites and how that relates to church size. Also it would be good to see how the size, demographic and online participation all relate. Depending on those factors different functions may be better for different types of churches. For example larger churches may have more people using blogs and smaller churches may have more participants with forums?
In the near future I will be conduction some research on my own site to see how churches are incorporating social media and networks and how successful they have been. Ill make sure to put the results on here also.
David Buchanan
www.coefficientmedia.com
Community Site
My church is just about at 1000. It will drop to the high 800's in the summer and go up to about 1200 in the peak of winter.
In the next couple weeks we are going to launch a community website for the church. One that's a cross between this site, a church website, and a media site. Hopefully, it will be a good case scenario for church community sites. This church has a good mix of young and old. It isn't targeted around any particular age.
How about 16 people
Our church is in a very small town. A tiny country style church in the middle of nowhere. It probably has about a 50 person capacity. I have to drive a bit to get to it. You wont find it unless you were told about it. Interesting with us because there are hundreds more that visit the site and listen to the podcast and taking the greek course from around the world.
~150
My church has about ~150 on Sunday mornings and ~120 on Wednesday nights, but we are doubling about every year. We have lots of young people who would typically use a church website, but most of them have several children and seem too busy to be online much. The rest of the congregation does not seem comfortable with the tech stuff at all.
I tried having a forum on the main site, but no one used it...So I shut it down. The only thing that people can really do now is add their own photos. I thought that this would be a popular feature, but since so there's nothing else for them to do at the site currently, people seem to have little interest.
We recently started a website for our youth group on Drupal. The students seem to interact much more than the adults online, which is to be expected. They can add photos, YouTube videos, and forums. It is a fairly new site, but has gone well so far.
-Mike Goodwin
Elston Family Church
http://www.elstonfamily.org
My local church community in
My local church community in Huntsville has 50-80 each week. We've broken over 100 a few times. It's a new church planet located in a downtown area. Most all of the people that attend have found the church via online searches.
BTW: I posted a separate thread here asking for critical comments about the website as I'm trying to improve it: http://groups.drupal.org/node/8138
ericatkins.com
@ericatkins