My Top Posts of 2019

I continue to plug away on this thing called a blog. There are times when I wonder whether any of the words I string together to make sentences and paragraphs are worth publishing. But it seems this year has seen continued growth on this blog, and also some wider writing on other ministry sites, so that’s been encouraging.

In typical fashion I started out the year with a flurry of posts and articles but it seems I went missing in the second half of the year.

Below I list the top 5 posts in 2019 as well as some stats for the year. For those interested in stats from previous years you can read about 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

The Top Five Posts:

1. 10 Tips For Reading In 2019
2. Making The Bible Project Your Bible Reading Plan For 2018
3. My Top Books of 2018
4. Growing Young – Keychain Leadership
5. 11 Things: The Senior Pastor-Youth Pastor Relationship

Some Reflections:

The only post actually written in 2019 was the first one, ’10 Tips For Reading In 2019′. The reason this made it to number one was because it got picked up by a very popular blogger in North America. The traffic that sent to this site was out of this world, particularly compared to usual!

I found myself writing 21 articles or posts for other ministry sites. I don’t get to know how well those did in terms of page views, but due to the sites I wrote for I’m fairly confident the readership will have been larger than I could reach.

The top five posts actually written in 2019 go to:

1. 10 Tips For Reading In 2019
2. New Children’s Ministry Initiative Makes Worship Leaders Walk Out Of Service
3. My Top Books For 2019
4. The Inadequate Youth Pastor
5. Christian Blogging And Social Media

Raw Stats for 2019:

In 2019 I managed to:

• Publish 54 individual posts on joncoombs.com.
• Write over 29,800 words from those individual posts.
• Have 11,657 views on the site for 2019 (up from 7700 in 2018).
• Increase to 185 followers to the blog, as well as 34 email subscribers.
• Publish 21 articles on other ministry sites.

This is actually more encouraging the more I think about it. I didn’t think I’d posted on average once per week, but it looks like I have. Writing for other sites at nearly every other week is also a pleasing goal to have achieved.

While right now it’s holiday time, and really the last couple of months I’ve not been in the zone to write and publish, I do hope I can continue to plug away at this again in 2020.

Anyway, if you’re a regular reader, thanks for popping by. I hope it’s been useful for you as it has been for me.

Author: Jon

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