What's New at Effective Church Communications
Are We a Team?
Article by Gayle Hilligoss All church staffs are not teams. Teamwork is easy to recognize where it exists, but hard to define where it doesn’t. Ministry assistants are often the first to recognize when teamwork is only a phrase tossed about in staff meetings. While building teamwork is primarily the responsibility...
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Q & A: Introducing a new category to answer your questions
I often get questions from readers and members of Effective Church Communications and I welcome them because the primary purpose of this site is to serve all of you and to help all of your churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. There is a lot of content that I know, from over 30 years...
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Seasonal Church Communications
Don’t only master church communication technology—measure results
How did your church do this last year in church technology? Did you finally get a church Facebook page and Twitter account? Did you make your website smartphone and tablet-friendly? Did you create an app for your church or put QR codes in your bulletin? Did you move back-up files to the cloud? Though all of these accomplishments...
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Church Communication Trends for 2012 and what’s essential for your church
At this time of year we are flooded with all kinds of trend analysis articles, what’s hot, what’s not, what is the latest in social media and gadgets, what’s is essential if we want to appear relevant and cutting edge. After reading a number of these articles and blogs and debating about what to pass...
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How-tos on church communications
Q & A: Resources needed for proofing communications in the church office
QUESTION: Do you have any recommended resources that you would recommend that I can give to our church’s admin assistant to improve her proof reading skills? question sent by a pastor via email ANSWER: Proofing publications is critical and horrible; important and irritating. One of my favorite quotes on this...
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Q & A: I need a resource for bargain software—is Consistent Computer Bargains still in business?
QUESTION: Yvon, A number of years ago (app. 2004 or earlier) I attended one of your seminars. You handed out a book with a couple of resource pages in the back. I’m interested in one particular resource, Consistent Computer Bargains (www.ccbministries.com). In 2004 when we purchased a new computer we were able to...
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Q & A: I need a resource for bargain software—is Consistent Computer Bargains still in business?
QUESTION: Yvon, A number of years ago (app. 2004 or earlier) I attended one of your...
Don’t only master church communication technology—measure results
How did your church do this last year in church technology? Did you finally get a...
Church Bulletin Resources: templates, training, tips, videos, articles, books
From time to time, it’s useful to evaluate your church bulletin because I firmly...
Why, though we have incredible communication tools; do we also have declining church attendance?
note: this is an excerpt from our upcoming book: Church Bulletins, the most important...
Typography is one of the most important tools we have to make our church bulletins...
Being a Better Office Manager, part three
Article by Gayle Hilligoss Ed. note: This is the last week of a great series on How...
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Video: What is a TEMPLATE on Effective Church Communications and how can you use them?
Templates are one of the best resources on this site because they will save you HUGE...
Video: What is a PDF? the three kinds of PDFs on this website and how to use them
I’ve had a number of questions recently asking about why people can’t...
Video and Ebook on Church Bulletin Essential: How to become a Christian
Our church bulletins can accomplish many purposes, but if they don’t answer...
In many churches communications are done because “we’ve always done it that way”...
Special events are a strategic time to get people into churches. Our societies are...
Online Video, Foundation: The Uniqueness of Church Communications
Welcome to the first of our Online Video, Foundation: The Uniqueness of Church...
