Branding and promotional guidelines

We encourage all churches and individuals to promote their Christianity Explored Ministries courses as widely as possible, and want to support you in doing this as much as we can. These guidelines will help you to find and use the resources we offer.

Logo guidance

We have provided a suite of logos for you to use in promoting your courses, all of which can be downloaded free from our Leaders Portal.

Please do not download or copy them from anywhere else, and do not edit or manipulate them in any way (e.g. distorting, rotating, re-colouring etc). More specific logo guidance is available as part of the logo download in the Leaders Portal.

Naming your course

Christianity Explored offers different courses that are suitable for different settings. Your guests are likely to do some online research before coming to a course, so to make sure they find the right information, please take care to name your course accurately:

• use Christianity Explored (or the abbreviation CE) when referring to the Christianity Explored seven-session series in Mark's gospel
• use Life Explored (or the abbreviation LE) when referring to the Life Explored eight-session series exploring the story of the Bible
• use Hope Explored (or the abbreviation HE) for the Hope Explored three-session series on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus
• use Discipleship Explored (or the abbreviation DE) for the Discipleship Explored eight-session series in Philippians
• use Christianity Explored (or the abbreviation CE) when referring to our organisation based in the UK

All of these names are protected by trademarks, so please don't use the names for anything other than the official series mentioned above. We know that some churches prefer to create their own evangelistic series, tailored to their particular context (for example four-week courses). We're delighted if the Christianity Explored materials are useful during the writing process of these, but if you have decided not to use the Christianity Explored series as designed, please do not use their names and branding as these are reserved for products that have been produced with the oversight of Christianity Explored.

If you have any questions or would like to provide feedback about any of our series', then please contact us

Social media

Social media is a great way to promote opportunities to explore the Christian faith, and we encourage churches and individuals to use their social media profiles to raise awareness of courses they are running.

In some circumstances creating social media profiles (e.g. Facebook pages, Instagram accounts) for your course is helpful. To avoid confusion with Christianity Explored's official social media channels and for fairness, we would ask that you use the series name followed by a '-' or 'at' and then your church name. Please avoid using a geographical place or region alone in the profile name (e.g. Christianity Explored London or Christianity Explored Mexico). 

For example, you could use:

'Course name' at 'Course Location’ or ‘Course name - Course Location’ or 'Course name - Church name'

e.g. 
Christianity Explored at All Saints Binham Place Manchester
Life Explored - John Knox Presbyterian Church

If you have any questions about this, please contact us

Please remember that when you use Christianity Explored's videos and imagery on social media, you should follow the brand guidelines on this page.

If you are promoting your course on social media you may wish to use the following hashtags relevant to the series you are running:

#ChristianityExplored
#LifeExplored
#HopeExplored
#EpicExplorers
#DiscipleshipExplored
#VOX

You can also tag our social media accounts in your posts:

Facebook: @ChristianityExplored
X: @ChristExplored
Instagram: @christianityexploredministries

Use of promotional material (available from our Leaders Portal)

Session films

The Christianity Explored course films are available to preview on the Leaders Portal and can be watched in full on the Christianity Explored app. Additionally, once you register a course you are able to view and download the series films within the course presentation mobile and desktop app. These are the only ways it is possible to view and download the new Christianity Explored films.

The films for the other courses are available to watch on the Leaders Portal so that leaders can see them in advance.

Please respect the films' copyright by not sharing them for other purposes, embedding them on other websites, or adding them to public YouTube playlists. 

It is not permitted to upload the films to any video-hosting platform or social media channel, or for the films to be used in any livestreams unless agreed in advance with the Christianity Explored team.

For queries, please contact us

What is Christianity? video

The What is Christianity? video is available to download free here. Separate guidelines for using it can be found there.

Invitations, posters, banners

We have made posters, postcards and other promotional material available to download for free free from our Leader's Area. For the new Christianity Explored course, we have created Canva Templates where you are able to alter the details of the course. Other courses are available as pdf downloads. Please change the text in order to suit your context, but do not alter the images manipulate the logos.

Additional invitations and posters are available to buy from The Good Book Company.

If you have any queries, or if there is other imagery you would like to use, please contact us

Promotional media files

The trailers of the series are available to download free from the Leaders Portal. They can be used to promote your course (for example in church services, Sunday school etc), including for streaming. We ask that you credit the videos appropriately (for example, ‘With thanks to Christianity Explored www.christianityexplored.org’).

Please feel free to embed trailers on your website directly from any of our YouTube channels.

Any videos not made available directly from the Leaders Portal shop should not be uploaded to social media or video-hosting channels, as this would be an infringement of copyright.

Please ensure that videos are titled correctly, and that video thumbnail images are also appropriate, with correct uses of logos/typography/imagery etc as per these guidelines. For example, do check that you don't upload a Christianity Explored trailer and label it ‘Life Explored’ with a Life Explored thumbnail.

Our videos should not be ripped from the DVDs, or downloaded from other sources in other ways.