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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. 

"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.

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.

Sources of Demographic and Economic Data for Central Florida: Percept Group: Link2Lead Demographic Reports for Florida Baptist Churches US Census Bureau Quick Facts Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission Demographic Data UCF College of Business Economic Forecasts MyRegion.org: Central Florida Growth Strategy 

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-...

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.

< p>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.

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GOBA affiliated churches can receive professional quality stater websites from ministrywebsites.biz starting at $10 per month.  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.

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.

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 s...

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 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.