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 [...]
Video: How to contact missing members and get them back to church
Church isn’t a priority on people’s schedule that it was in the past—work schedule changes, vacations, illness, and school sports or events are all reasons why people may not have been at church. Though people may not have a choice over some reasons, such a work scheduling, when a few weeks have gone by without [...]
Postcards: For Missing Members & how to get people to come back to church
Postcards are a great way to contact people to let them know they are missed at church and you want them to return. They work so much better than a letter because they are easier to read—you don’t have to open an envelope and even if you don’t read the whole thing, chances are you [...]
Ready-to-Print Sept. 11 (and other times): Postcard Prayers for Police, Firefighters, Soliders
Ed. Note: For my friends and ECC Members in Canada and other countries, this set of materials also has generic cards that can be used in any location, at any time to honor Police, Firefighters and Soldiers, in addition, I have one specifically for Canada. More than commemoration, consider this as a time to say [...]
Word Cloud Summer Postcards, Father’s Day Postcards
One of the benefits of being a members of Effective Church Communications is the free publications created for you. These publications come in these formats: A PDF that is ready-to-print as is, but that you can also modify on the back side. An editable MS Publisher file that you can modify however you choose. A [...]
Valentines Day ready-to-print Postcards, Encouraging Devotion & Article
Valentines Day is a wonderful time to tell people that God loves them and to remind yourself of that reality. This 13-page PDF has a number of resources that will help you celebrate God’s love and share it with the people in your church and other church communicators. The PDF is a free download for [...]
Simple, easy, useful Christmas Invitation Templates
The holidays are filled with so much extravagance in everything from gifts to communications, but sometimes we just need a simple invitation. I was in that situation late Saturday night when I realized after doing all the work on the handouts and PowerPoint presentation for the Sunday morning Bible class lesson that I forgot to [...]
A giant postcard is used for successful promotion of a Christian Camp
This PDF is from a number of years ago and you’d definitely want to upgrade the design. We have come a long way since the early days of desktop publishing in the kind of designs we are able to create. But regardless of the way you design your postcard the ideas in this are timeless [...]
