Effective Church Communication Strategy
PDF and Text for: Children’s Resurrection Cookies
For a great Strategy to teach children about Easter, involve parents and provide an outreach tool, NOTHING beats Resurrection Cookies. When you make the cookies, you visually illustrate Jesus suffering, burial, death and resurrection. Because you are doing it with cookies, it is much less intimidating for people who...
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PDFs: Two Children’s invitations to Easter events
Strategy for Children’s events at Easter might consist of simple publications, but these simple publications can have far reaching results in how they bring people to your Easter church service and how many return on an ongoing basis. To start, children’s invitations to Easter events can and should be...
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How-tos on church communications
Video: How to modify an Easter photo with Snagit
For an effective communication campaign it is helpful to have a coordinated image you can use throughout your communications. This short, and extremely easy video will show you how to go from a photo like this: To a graphic like this: You do need to have the Snagit program ($49, available at www.snagit.com) to do...
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PDF and text: Jelly Bean Prayer for Children’s Ministry
There are two versions of the Jelly Bean Prayer in PDF you can access and download by clicking here. Each card is one quarter page in size. By using the colors of Jelly Beans, this prayer is a visual way to share the gospel message to children—and to the adults with the children—sometimes candy isn’t nearly...
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Great example of Olympic outreach in church communciations
The Winter Olympics of 2010 just concluded their final ceremony, but the love of...
Basic books: all books on www.lulu.com all 20% off!
Many of our basic books for church communicators are sold through www.lulu.com/yvonprehn....
The medium isn’t the message; the message is the message
With all due respect to Marshall McLuhan, referred to by many as the “high...
Be proactive, not reactive in your church communications
The start of each year is a good time to evaluate your church communications effectiveness....
Answers to basic questions on how to design church communications
“How do I design my bulletin, newsletter, flyer, brochure, all the church communications...
Overall Church Newsletter Samples #1
Below is a selection of church newsletters sent in as part of our Great Idea Swap...
Planning Book PDF download, special edition
This Special Edition of our book on Planning is part of our overall course on planning. Click...
Valentines for Church Communication Creators, what church leaders need to do
Valentine’s Day is a wonderfully Christian holiday in that it is all about love...
Great Idea Swap: Samples of Children’s Ministry Communications, #1
Children’s ministry requires a large number of communication pieces for a successful...
Sample Gospel Presentations Sample Gospel Presentations It does not take much space...
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Member's Content & Training
Video: How to modify an Easter photo with Snagit
For an effective communication campaign it is helpful to have a coordinated image...
PDF and text: Jelly Bean Prayer for Children’s Ministry
There are two versions of the Jelly Bean Prayer in PDF you can access and download...
PDF and Text for: Children’s Resurrection Cookies
For a great Strategy to teach children about Easter, involve parents and provide...
PDFs: Two Children’s invitations to Easter events
Strategy for Children’s events at Easter might consist of simple publications,...
Church connection cards—the foundation of all other church communications—at Easter and always
In church communications, we are often like Elijah-we expect God to speak through...
VIDEO and PDF Tutorial: How to create resizable graphics with MS Publisher
Wouldn’t it be great to have graphic images you could resize and use both on...
VIDEO and PDF TUTORIAL: How to create Custom Headers for websites with MS Publisher
Creating a custom header for a website can be an expensive and difficult process,...
Video: The best page layouts for print, e-books, pdfs and the web
Today we are able to repurpose our communications in a variety of ways: print, PDFs,...
There will never be an end to new technologies coming to the world of church communications....
FREE Valentines Day Bulletin Inserts, to remind people that God loves them
Bulletin inserts are a great tool for evangelism for seasonal Sundays because often...
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Effective Church Communication Resources–now ALL on 20% off !
Possibly the most important piece of Christian communication outside the Bible—because for many people it is the first piece of Christian literature they ever see. What it says to them may determine their future with your church and perhaps with the Lord. Book includes: strategy, detailed how-tos, lots of examples. Available as an e-book download: previously: $8.50; now: $6.00
Church Bulletins
Little cards with a huge potential to connect people with your church and enable you to pastor your people. Strategy, detailed how-tos, lots of examples. Available as an e-book download: $8.95 Available in paperback: previously: $8.95, now: $7.15
Connection Cards
The foundational book that will give you a system and strategy to enable your church communications to help your church fully fulfill the Great Commission. Includes detailed overviews, strategy, characteristics, evaluation methods. Available as a downloable ebook: previously: $9.95, now: $7.95
The Five Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing
Devotions, essays, challenges, one for each week of the year with a passage from the Bible and commentary from Yvon Prehn to inspire and encourage you in your calling in church communications. Available as an e-book download: previously: $5.00, now $4.00 Available in paperback: $11.95+ S & now $9.50 H
The Heart of Church Communications
An essential basic book of technique, how-tos of type, writing, layout, graphics, the basic skills of creating communications, a reprint of Yvon Prehn's very popular Tap the Power of Desktop Publishing for Your Church or Ministry. Available as an e-book download: previously: $12.50, now $9.50 Available in paperback: Previously: $19.95 + S & H, now: $16.00
Back to Basics, foundation communication skills for church communicatorsAll NEW Download Storefront
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This is a collection of over 100 pages of PDF newsletters from a variety of denominations and churches. It is a goldmine of ideas for any size church! Immediate download, only $7.
Great Idea Swap
Church Newsletters, #1
This is a collection of over 100 pages of PDFs of bulletins from 24 churches. All kinds of churches, denominations, and bulletin styles are represented. Immediate download, only $7.
Great Idea Swap
Church Bulletins, #1
These are the forms that are demonstrated in the video in the PLANNING COURSE. Immediate download, only $7.
MS Publisher, Editable Templates
Six Church Communication FORMS
Article Archive Books: Invitations Cards & More
This book is part of a collection of downloadable PDFs of past Yvon Prehn articles, from newsletters, and materials no longer in print. Immediate download, only $3.50.