Bulletin Inserts: Back-to-School Backpack Ministry, ways to involve your congregation
Back to School was always a wonderful time of year for me, but for many kids it can be a time of sadness if they don’t have what they need. This is a simple, but very powerful ministry your church can do. Below is the introduction to the church bulletins: Back-to-School Backpack Ministry —an opportunity [...]
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 [...]
Children’s Ministry Resources for Easter for Purchase
Children’s ministry is an important part of the Easter celebrations at any church. Here are EDITABLE MS PUBLISHER TEMPLATES, PDF of ideas and ready-to-print files and a Video and PDF Tutorial to help you create your own. Your purchase of these materials allows you to make as many copies of them as you want to [...]
PDF and text: Easter Jelly Bean Prayer for Children’s Ministry
By using the colors of Jelly Beans, this prayer is a visual way to share the gospel message to children—and to the adults with the children—sometimes candy isn’t nearly as intimidating as a sermon. It is useful at Easter to enclose in goodie bags, to use as an invitation, use as an illustration during a [...]
Video: How to modify an Easter or ANY image photo with Snagit
For an effective communication campaign it is helpful to have a coordinated image you can use throughout your communications. This short, and extremely easy video will show you how to go from a photo like this: To a graphic like this: You do need to have the Snagit program ($49, available at www.snagit.com) to do [...]
Back-to-School Backpack Ministry, church communication resources to motivate your congregation
Back-to-School is a time with great outreach potential. Backpack Ministry, where your church assembles and gives children backpacks filled with school supplies, now more than ever, is a greatly needed ministry. Children in homeless shelters, kids whose parents have lost their jobs, or whose jobs have been cut back, many of them face a sad and embarrassing [...]
Free Bulletin Insert and Overview: Make your Father’s Day church communications a challenge to ministries, service, and discipleship
The communication approach on Father’s Day is very different from that on Mother’s Day. On Mother’s Day, many family members who usually don’t attend church will attend to honor Mom. Because of that, for Mother’s Day we should direct many of our communication pieces to the non-regular attendees and work to get them involved in [...]
My personal motivation for Backpack ministry—my memories and prayers about crayons and little kids in need
Remember the smell when you opened a new box of crayons? Waxy and warm with a bit of paper mixed in. Remember what it was like to see all those new crayons? Sometimes there were new colors. The metallic crayons seemed magical. I almost hated to use them, to turn the neat, sharp points into smushy [...]
Creation of Men’s Logo in LogoSmartz, Webinar On-Demand
This little video shows how easy it is to create a logo for men’s ministry using the very inexpensive logo-creation software, LogoSmartz. After you watch this video, be sure to watch the video on how to use the logo created here to make a business or invitation card for men’s ministry using it. One little [...]
