Witnessing to your community at Christmas - a blitz or a process? Stuart Robinson examines a real conversion story and the arguments for the long-term lead-up to evangelism.

In part one of our series on top Christmas outreach ideas, a group of south coast churches have used video mini-sermons to reach the MTV generation as part of a community carols event.

Despite the shopping frenzy statistics still show church attendance by Australians increases by two and a half times at Christmas. So are there better ways for our churches to be telling them the good news? Each day this week we will rate a different parish Christmas event and reveal what worked and what did not.

As part of our analysis of top Christmas outreach events, we reveal how pony rides in a graveyard helped St Stephen's, Newtown, double their church attendance.

As Sydney Anglican youth show an increasing interest in world mission, CMS is partnering Garage Hymnal for dynamic mission events throughout 2007.

Mal our cameraman says everything in Ireland happens in trees. One, two, tree"¦

Today is the age of target marketing. Savvy advertisers constantly ask themselves, "How can we make our product more desirable to the various groups who are presently unaware of its benefits?"

Its easy to see why Eragon, has become a runaway success for emerging writer Christopher Paolini. But behind the adventure is a serious swipe at the Christian faith.