Video and article: How to create full-color FREE church postcards, business cards and other publications with VistaPrint
Please note: Videos are at the end of this article. Most of the printed publications we do in the church are done with either the copier or a digital duplicator. Sometimes we use color if we have a good color copier. These machines work for most of the products we create, but sometimes we long [...]
Church Directories How-to, ideas from church communications
Recently I received this question about pictorial directories and after the question are responses that were sent in and below them is a suggestion of a commercial product that I’ve had a number of folks in my past seminars tell me they really liked. Please put any additional comments or ideas that you have in [...]
YOU CAN DO IT! all the church communications you need to do, in-house, using your people, low cost
YOU CAN DO IT! By that I believe that the Lord gifts and equips every church to be able to do the communication work they need to do to reach the community they are called to reach. This article will encourage you to believe that and act on it in your church.
The best page layouts for print, e-books, pdfs and the web, a Webinar On Demand
Today we are able to repurpose our communications in a variety of ways: print, PDFs, e-books, and the web. Services like www.lulu.com, an online, on-demand publishing company (and the one I use to create my paperback books) allows anyone to create professional-looking books for no upfront costs. However, even though we have these new technologies, [...]
VIDEO: Video review of Cute PDF, free PDF creator
PDF stands for “portable document format.” Though there are many uses for PDFs, one of the most practical uses is that if you save a document as a PDF you can transfer it files created in ANY program from a volunteers home to be printed at the church office. For example, say a church communication [...]
Paper, Printing, and Production
This PDF covers a variety of issues, some timeless, such as the importance of paper choice in the quality of your communications and some issues not so timeless, such as delivery methods. Much of what we do in church communications is timeless—but some isn’t and this chapter has a little bit of both. It is [...]
We are unlimited in our potential to share the gospel message; what are we doing with it?
Charles Spurgeon, in his introduction to Lectures To My Students, wrote: Should this publication succeed, I hope very soon to issue similar work. . . . . I shall be obliged by any assistance rendered to the sale, for the price is unremunerative, and persons interested in our subjects are not numerous enough to secure a [...]
