Educational tax deductions for church communications training and resources–don’t forget about them for yourself!
This suggestion comes with the important advice that any final decision on whether or not you can claim the resources suggested here as a tax deduction needs to be made with your tax consultant, but it seems like they should apply. Here is an excerpt from: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc513.html (go to this link for the whole listing [...]
ebook: Christmas Communications, how-tos and ready-to-print PDFs of invitations, postcards, bulletin inserts, gospel presentations
For your inspiration and communication production convenience during the Christmas season this 80-page book downloadable ebook has how-to articles to make you more effective in your church communications for Christmas, plus ready-to-print PDFs that range from very simple one, clip art designs to ones using full-color illustrations. **Not only is this a great tool for [...]
Connection Cards for Christmas
After all your hard work to get people to come to your Christmas events, you want to make sure you make a connection with them so that they will return to your church after the holidays. To do that you need to capture names and contact information. These Connection Cards for Christmas are a simple-to-create, [...]
Connection Cards for Easter–don’t let visitors slip away
Connection Cards are vitally important for your Easter outreach success, because if visitors don’t give you their contact information, you won’t be able to follow-up with them. You might have a huge attendance on Easter Sunday, but if the next Sunday is back to your usual numbers, you’ve missed a great opportunity to connect. If [...]
Connection Cards, connect with visitors, grow your church, pastor your people, ESSENTIAL BOOK: still $5 Special Price
This is a special, super low price–but because this book is so important to grow every church we decided to keep it this price for some time. Connection Cards are one of the most important communication tools you can use in the church. Each week visitors come to the church, but if they don’t tell [...]
Pledge Card/Committment Card Sample that includes more than money and reminds us of our committment to discipleship
In church we often talk about giving our “time, talent, and treasure,” but when it is time for the congregation to give its annual pledge, many churches only ask for money. In this wonderful sample from Gordon M., his church asks for not only a monetary pledge, but asks for very important commitments in all [...]
Outreach Tragedies— church celebrations without connection, an On-demand Webinar
Church Outreach events involve a tremendous amount of work, cost money and time–but in spite of all the work, if you don’t make connections with people you, your event won’t accomplish all it should. This short webinar will show you how to make connections that can turn into significant spiritual opportunities with the use of [...]
Connection card corrections for Canada and the world (ZIP FILE included) and the benefits of telling me what I do wrong
A wonderful illustration of how the body of Christ works and of how desperately we need each other in all our communications work was gently shown me in an email I received right after I sent out my previous newsletter letting all of you know about the Connection Card Templates I’d created to inspire everyone [...]
Connect with invisible visitors: an overview of Church Connection Cards Resources
The people that visit our churches are often lost souls for whom Jesus died–we cannot let them pass through our church as invisible visitors without making a connection with them, if we are to be disciples who are working to obey the Great Commission. It doesn’t take big gestures and huge budgets to make those [...]
