Outreach Church Bulletin inserts, an idea you can use all year around
In addition to our celebrations our churches go all out at Easter in outreach and in inviting people back to church after Easter. Though it’s wonderful to do this at Easter, outreach needs to be a priority always. Obeying the Great Commission isn’t only for special events. The short video here shows two samples of [...]
Children’s Easter Publications Template Set
Easter Communications Children’s Materials Templates, ZIP file download These template sets are in MS Publisher. You can modify them and make them your own or use them as is. Hours of work in image selection, modification, and basic design are done for you. The adorable Church Bunny Collection included in this set features editable MS [...]
Church Bulletin Resources: templates, training, tips, videos, articles, books
From time to time, it’s useful to evaluate your church bulletin because I firmly believe that church bulletins are arguably the most important piece of Christian literature printed today outside the Bible. I say this often because: No matter how secular our society, people still come to church looking for answers and healing for hurts [...]
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 [...]
Christmas church bulletin example
After sending out the Hark the Herald Angels gospel presentation, I just got this example of how one of the ECC Members used it and wanted to share it. It is a wonderful example of how to put together a very clear and complete presentation of how to come to know Jesus personally at Christmas. [...]
5 NEW Christmas designs for church bulletins, booklet covers, postcards and invitations
The Christmas Message is always the same,but the styles we use to communicate it change. Effective Church Communications has created the designs below that can be used in many ways during the Christmas season. The designs are half of an 8 1/2 by 11 page and can be used as covers for bulletins, advent or [...]
VIDEO: A GREAT way to publicize Holiday Events
Print is still one of the most powerful ways to communicate because if you do up a print piece, such as a postcard and it is placed on the refrigerator–you can’t help but see it many times! The US Postal Service reminded us of that in a little video they did, and a clip of [...]
Sample: Flyer for volunteer recruitment for a Thanksgiving outreach, a useful example for any seasonal ministry
It is challenging to plan a ministry outreach for any holiday and even more so when we want to recruit volunteers to help with it. Because there are so many things to do for a successful outreach and our minds are pre-occupied with the event, it is easy to short-change our congregations in how we [...]
ebook: Church Business and Invitation Cards, small, but powerful outreach tools: samples & how-tos
We’ve put together an updated and expanded version of this book about these essential church communication tools. Church business and invitation cards are a small, but extremely powerful tool for your church to use in outreach, pastoral care, training in evangelism and many other uses in your church. They work so well because they are: [...]
