Connection Cards, a wonderful example as a tool for ministry interaction
I knew Connection Cards were great to use as a tool to reach out to visitors and to pastor your people, but one church uses them in a great way to get people involved in the various ministries of the church. A wonderful church communicator sent me this story and I wanted to share it [...]
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, we cannot connect with them. Our people come to church every week, but if we don’t know their needs, we can’t help them. Connection Cards can do all this and so much more. This will give you detailed ideas, advice, [...]
Connection Card Templates–just download and modify
Some of the great advantages of ECC Membership are the editable MS Templates available for you and here is the collection of Connection Card ones. The images below are part of a ZIP file that is for ECC Members. The link to the file is below the images. Just download, save on your hard-drive and [...]
Connection Cards Training, maybe you would prefer PowerPoint to a video
People prefer to train themselves and others in a variety of ways, that’s why ECC provides a variety of resources for your training. You might want to watch a video for your own training, but you’d prefer a PowerPoint presentation to train others. Because of that ECC has provided a PowerPoint slide show for you [...]
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 impacts the people we want to reach. That’s why I appreciate it so much when I hear back from any of you on what worked in your church. This is an email I received last week from Rona [...]
Triage, a model for responding to connection cards
note: this is an excerpt from the book: Connection Cards, connect with visitors, grow your church, pastor your people It is critically important to respond to the connection cards received each Sunday, but as stated in the previous chapter, not every card needs the same timeliness or intensity of response, but how do you decide [...]
What not to do in connection card ministry, part one
note: this is an excerpt from the book: Connection Cards, connect with visitors, grow your church, pastor your people I’ve been teaching church communications for over twenty years and have looked at many communication cards and discussed their use with many church communicators during that time. From my experience, and many years of personally using [...]
What not to do in connection card ministry, part two
note: this is an excerpt from the book: Connection Cards, connect with visitors, grow your church, pastor your people #3 Don’t tell people about connection cards without giving them time to fill them out. This is probably the single biggest reason churches do not get connection cards turned in. In most churches, either the pastor [...]
Church connection cards—the foundation of all other church communications
In church communications, we are often like Elijah-we expect God to speak through the thunder and storm. But what God often uses is similar to how he ultimately spoke to Elijah—through a still small voice. The place of connection cards in your church communication ministry is similar. They appear tiny and unimportant in the great [...]
