Kingdom PR

25/03/2025

In 2018, churches did $6.1 billion worth of good for the community.

However, with potential legislative changes and a lack of advocacy and public engagement, there is a growing disconnect between local churches and the wider public. Many people are unaware of what churches do and their current and significantly role they play in society.

Churches must communicate. Not to seek recognition, position themselves as the hero, or ‘blow their own trumpet’ but to highlight those in need, advocate for the vulnerable, and bring light to a world that desperately needs hope.

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"There's been growing calls to make churches pay more in tax - and the Government is set to review this in the upcoming Budget.

But after over a decade of research, one academic has changed her mind and now believes churches should pay less taxes and receive more funding from the Government.

Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts, Associate Professor at Waikato University's Faculty of Law, says she's been researching the economic impact and value of religious charities in New Zealand.

"It blew my mind...and quite often, the reason why we don't know about this amazing work that they carry out is because they hide it under a bushel, unfortunately. They don't do themselves any favours doing that."

There's been growing calls to make churches pay more in tax - and the Government is set to review this in the upcoming Budget.

02/02/2025

🌟 Customer Testimonial 🌟
We love hearing how our work makes a difference!

It’s a privilege to serve churches, ministries, and Christian businesses. If you need help sharing your message, we’d love to chat!

📩 DM us or visit www.kingdompr.co to learn more.

12/01/2025

Happy New Year!

After some much-needed R&R, we are back to work this week 😀

For urgent work, as always, the best way to get a hold of me is phone call or text, for anything else, email me [email protected]

Looking forward to all that 2025 has in store

13/09/2024

🚀Exciting Update from This Week!🚀

On Monday, our team had the incredible opportunity to lead a Crisis Management and Media Training session for a dedicated Christian organisation at their headquarters.

We dove deep into strategies for handling a potential crisis and honed their spokesperson’s media skills to maintain transparency and openness with their stakeholders and the public.

This 8-hour workshop follows our 7-stage Crisis Management Plan (CMP). This workshop allows attendees to role-play a potential crisis scenario such as a natural disaster, physical threat, technological failure, operational failure, ethical/ moral/ legal breach, regulatory/ compliance failure, or product-related issue.

Attendees must make decisions quickly under pressure while answering media calls and preparing for a practice media interview.

At the end of this training, attendees were able to:

✅Identify potential crises relative to their organisation.
✅Complete the Crisis Management Plan Workbook and have a comprehensive strategy and plan for responding to crises, including team members' roles, responsibilities, communication protocols, and escalation procedures.
✅Demonstrate appropriate communication crisis response strategies and techniques for managing the immediate response to a crisis, including initial statements, media handling, and social media management.
✅Nominated spokespersons were Media Spokesperson Trained on how to communicate with media outlets during a crisis effectively, and had a process for crafting consistent and compassionate messages that align with the organisation's values.
✅Understand the importance of social media and have strategies for monitoring and responding to online conversations and addressing misinformation or negative sentiment on social media platforms.
✅Identify the importance of stakeholder communications during a crisis and the appropriate channels and order of stakeholder communication.

✨Most importantly, they proved they could face challenges confidently and gracefully while making decisions as a team under pressure. ✨ It was inspiring to see this client’s commitment to improving processes to be prepared if the worst happened. 💪📈

Swipe through the photos to catch a glimpse of the training in action!

If you are interested in our Crisis Management & Media Training Workshop, contact us today!

08/08/2024

NEW BLOG: Do Churches Need PR?

There are many misconceptions about Public Relations (PR), so it's important to explain what it is and what it is not. This article gives examples of good public relations and bad public relations (so that you can recognise an unhealthy culture from the onset).

Best-practice stakeholder communication processes, policies and training play a vital role in ensuring church environments are healthy and safe for our communities.

20/06/2024

At Kingdom PR, we work alongside you to understand your current stakeholder communications and prepare a public relations strategy that meets your organisation's objectives. For more or to get in touch, head to www.kingdompr.co or contact Hannah on 027 636 0010.

18/06/2024

Here at Kingdom PR, we have services catered to your organisation. Whether you're after strategy, PR support or are in need of crisis communications, we have you covered.

Get in touch today with our friendly team to hear more about how we can support you. Contact Hannah: 027 636 0010

24/01/2024

We're back and ready for all 2024 has in store!

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and a great start to the New Year, and are as expectant as we are for 2024 😃🥳

We've been in planning mode this last week, and now, with our 2024 strategy completed, we are already ticking items on our 90-day plan. Feels good, doesn't it?!👩‍💻✅️✅️✅️

This year, we are excited to announce a big change for us: Spencer is stepping into a new role with the wonderful World Vision NZ. As the Church Relationship Manager for the lower North Island (Tauranga - Wellington), Hannah will now be the main point of contact for anything Kingdom PR, but we are super pleased that Spencer will still be helping out behind the scenes. 🧑‍💻

So what does this mean for Kingdom PR? Well, we aren't slowing down, but we are growing up. We will be looking for value-aligned public relations practitioners and communication practitioners as our work continues to grow. 😀

We can't wait to share the journey with you! Be sure to keep up to date with us on our social pages and website www.kingdompr.co

15/12/2023

With the Christmas season upon us, Hannah, Spencer and the team at Kingdom PR wanted to take a moment to wish you and your families a VERY Merry Christmas!

A very special thank you to all our clients for your continued support and business in 2023. We may have been a bit quiet on our social channels this year, but want to reassure you that we have had a very busy year!

Some of our highlights included travelling all over Aotearoa presenting workshops, creating our new online media training and PR resources for 2024, and working with clients who are doing incredible work both here in New Zealand and overseas.

Now, it’s time for a much-needed holiday break! We are closed from 15th December to 15th January, available only for urgent support (please call directly, as we won't be checking our emails!)

We hope you have a relaxing summer and we will see you back on here in the New Year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hannah, Spencer and the Kingdom PR team.

15/09/2023

If you have done media training with us, you will know that we emphasise the importance of your camera set-up for media interviews over video calls. 👨‍💻

Focus on this area is essential because your presentation can massively impact how well your audience perceives your message.🙌

Even though these tips may seem common sense, over the past decade, we have media-trained countless CEOs, board members, directors, subject matter experts and senior leaders. Not one has wholly nailed this aspect in their media training. 😬

It takes practice, and a checklist certainly helps! 👩‍💻

To make your camera set-up as easy as possible, we have a simple acronym to help you remember the basics:

BLAM: 🌟Background, Lighting, Angle, Me.🌟

Read our checklist so you can set up your camera like a pro.

https://www.kingdompr.co/blog/Media-interview-camera-set-up