About Church Marketing University
We're passionate about helping your church reach your community.
Church Marketing University is designed to help your church reach your city in a way that saves you time, builds your team, and grows your budget. The goal is to help your church see more visitors each week and more lives changed than ever before!
Types of Churches
We have over 1,000 churches from all across the world taking part in Church Marketing University. Churches getting the most out of CMU generally fall into one of these three categories:
- A church plant that already understands the importance of marketing and wants to start with a powerful marketing system.
- A church that has plateaued or even started to decline and realize it is time to change the way they do outreach.
- A megachurch who wants to use CMU as professional development for their team.
Leadership
Church Marketing University was founded by a group of pastors with a vision to see 1000 churches equipped to reach their city in new ways. CMU is led by Ryan Wakefield.
Ryan received his bachelor’s degree in Bible and Marketing from Evangel University. Ryan went on to get his Master’s in Organizational Leadership. He is currently a licensed minister with the Assemblies of God.
Ryan spent years as the Creative Director for James River Church. In 2013 the Wakefield family moved up to Kansas City to help start Summit Park Church. In the years since, Summit Park has grown to over 1,600 people and is launching their second location in Lee’s Summit.
Why CMU?
- Your entire team can access the materials. This is crucial for churches who want to recruit, train, and empower teams.
- The content is video based and can be accessed on demand.
- We teach you how to build a system that will work for you for years to come.
- We’ve done 80% of the hard work for you. Each course is loaded with done-for-you materials!
- You’re supported with an ongoing community.
- You can ask our experts unlimited questions. Compare that to a conference.
- All presenters are fellow church leaders in the trenches with you.
- We’re constantly updating the courses and adding new ones.
- We’ll show you how to make the most of your marketing dollars so you’re not wasting money.
