Great Idea Swap Overview: How it works, why use it, the history of it and why participate

The Great Idea Swap is a resource of ebooks and online samples (click here to see current collections) of church communications by church communicators for church communicators. The purpose of the Great Idea Swap is for church communicators to help, inspire, and encourage other church communicators by sharing their samples and ideas in all areas [...]

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 [...]

How to create Church Connection Cards, instructions, samples, inspiration, a Webinar-On Demand

Note from Yvon: as the fall approaches, we will have many people coming to our churches after holiday outreach events. We use these events to make a connection with people–not to simply entertain them for a brief time. To make that continuing connection, few communication tools work better than a connection card. I decided to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 at the bottom of this article. Just download, save on [...]

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 [...]

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