FREE Church Publicity Workshop: How to promote your church events to local media
At this holiday time of year, we work so hard to put on Christmas events and we want as many people as possible to attend.In addition to all you do at the church, if you can get free media advertising, this can be a way to reach people who are unfamiliar with your church. To [...]
Operation Christmas Child: a fantastic idea from one ECC Member that involves the congregation
All of you have the GREATEST IDEAS! Following our previous article that featured Bulletin Inserts to encourage your people to shop ahead for Christmas Child Boxes (CLICK HERE to go to it) one of our wonderful ECC Members sent me this email. It shares a fantastic way a church does their Operation Christmas Child ministry, [...]
We are here to serve, comments by a communications director
Ed note: This fantastic article was originally a comment by Krysta, posted below the article on distractions in the church office. It has such good advice that I wanted to highlight it. This is one of the important distinctives that makes our work different from the work done by secular communication professionals. Having worked as [...]
GREAT IDEA SWAP Sharing: How to create a Greeting Card in Publisher, using a modified free image
As part of our Great Idea Swap, Judy from a Lutheran Church In Missouri, not only sent in a wonderful example of a Greeting Card she created for her church, but also the instructions on how she did it. To the left is an image of her card for inspiration for all. Below ate the [...]
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 [...]
What About Halloween? A search for Halloween origins and how Christians should respond
This article shares the story of a church communicator Pam Finck, who took her concerns about Halloween and turned them into careful research. Her results and commentary about them are in this wonderful article she wrote. She was kind enough to sent it to me and I wanted to share it with you.
A church communicator reminds the staff that personal interactions matter
Sometimes in the course of our work as church communicators we forget that we need to repeatedly share what we have learned about communications with the church staff. As with any skill, because we practice it on an ongoing basis, we forget not everyone has the knowledge base we have. If we don’t share why [...]
