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Valentines Day PDF book, 52 pages of ready-to-print, full color and spot color files
All of the Valentines Day 2012 files, all 52 of them, have been combined in this one PDF, downloadable file. It is a fantastic resource you can immediately use to create bulletin inserts, postcards, samples and anything else you want to use to celebrate Valentines Day. The files are in both full-color and spot color....
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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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Seasonal Church Communications
Valentines, Bulletin Inserts and Postcards, to encourage Christians of God’s love
The other sets of Valentines files, in full and spot color are designed more for visitors to the church at Valentines Day. After I finished creating them, I realized I wanted to do something for the Adult Sunday School class my husband and I teach to give to class members at the Valentines brunch we have coming up....
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Valentine’s Day Cards or Bulletin inserts, half page, full color: a gift for your congregation to share
Valentines Day is a time when people are looking for love and we know that the only true and eternal love is found in Jesus. The following set of Valentines Day Cards gives you a way to share that message. Like the image to the left and the images later in this article, these images are half of an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet...
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How-tos on church communications
Valentines Day Cards or Bulletin inserts, quarter page, full-color–beautiful images, lots of uses
This is a wonderful collection of Valentines Day cards, bulletin inserts, invitations, reminders of God’s love. You can personalize them on the back in any way you want. These are one-quarter page size and in a variety full-color designs. At the bottom of the page is a ZIP FILE for ECC Members that has editable...
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Valentines Cards Spot Color both half and quarter-page size
These files are similar to the full color Valentines Day files in content, but they are in spot color. Spot color postcards and bulletin inserts are perfect to run on a digital duplicator. The files are in both half-page and quarter-page sizes. The ZIP files at the end of this article has the PDFs of all the color...
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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...
