What's New at Effective Church Communications
Get a head start on Fall Harvest festivals or Halloween alternatives at church
We're offering special pricing of this CD of Halloween resources: editable MSPublisher templates, PDFs, videos, CLICK HERE TO download a preview of everything on the CD. It’s never too early to start working on church outreach activities. It seems like summer is barely over and already we are looking ahead...
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From Gayle Hilligoss: Working Smart
ed. note: When I read Gayle’s wonderful article, in addition to being inspired to make my office more tidy and professional, I was reminded of when Jesus said, “You will be my witness” (Acts 1:8). Everything we do reflects who we belong to and our priorities in life. This article will help you be...
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Seasonal Church Communications
For Successful Fall Outreach Publications: Clarify and Coordinate
Fall and winter are two prime times for churches to plan outreach events for their communities. Large amounts of time and money are spent on these events and often the church gets a great community response to the free Harvest Festival or Family Thanksgiving Dinner or Community Caroling and Hot Chocolate Party. But...
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Fall event strategy: just because a lot of people show up, does that make your church special event successful?
How do you measure success in a church outreach event? Is it about the number of people who showed up? Is it about what a fantastic time they had at the event? Is it about how many volunteers you had show up to help and how many stayed around to help clean up? Though all of these things are important and satisfying...
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How-tos on church communications
Webinar Schedule for September 2010
Our webinars are Free for 48 hours when first posted and then available On Demand 24/7 for ECC members. Though we’ll be emailing out more detailed descriptions shortly before the webinars, here are the ones we have upcoming: Sept. 8: A new way to look at outreach in the Fall for Harvest Festivals and Alternative...
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Practical answers to paper choice questions for newsletters and other publications
No question is too simple or basic for a church communicator, with no prior graphic arts training who is trying to figure out how to create communications. This article answers the question: Question: What kind of paper should be used for newsletters, colored or not? Answer: The most important aspect of the paper...
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Free Content
This material is provided to give you an idea of the types of material available on this site. The beginning of all articles are also available for you, so explore!
For Successful Fall Outreach Publications: Clarify and Coordinate
Fall and winter are two prime times for churches to plan outreach events for their...
Church Invitation Cards, business cards with an eternity-altering purpose
How do you get unchurched people into your church? Despite all the high-tech and...
How Connection Cards improved visitor and prayer request response—true church story
None of us do the work we do in communications without great concern for how it actually...
This is the first a set of ECC TOOLKITS that will be available for you on CD, making...
This is a wonderful example of how a church communicator took one of the jpg images,...
Administrative Assistants & Church Communicators, remember who you are!
It’s easy to forget in the midst of lots of hard work and deadlines the real...
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Webinars
The Webinars are Free for 48 Hours when we first post them and after that On Demand 24/7 along with PDF handouts for ECC Members. Click on any topic below to preview the content or view the Webinar.
Webinar Schedule for September 2010
Our webinars are Free for 48 hours when first posted and then available On Demand...
How to download Paint.net, a Webinar On-Demand
Paint.net is a great FREE program for modifying the free images available online....
Free Clipart & Photo Websites, Webinar On-Demand
We all want free images to use in our church communications, but where can we find...
How to modify free clipart–Photoshop results without Photoshop, Webinar On-Demand
Free images are a great start (click here for the webinar about free clipart and...
How to create Church Connection Cards, connect with visitors, pastor your people, Webinar On-Demand
People visit our churches every week, but if they don’t tell us they are there,...
How to write for the web, Webinar On-Demand
Writing for the web requires the same basic writing skills for effective church-related...
