Video: How to create an Easter theme image by modifying a free 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 what is [...]
PDF and text: Jelly Bean Prayer for Children’s Ministry, downloadable cards and text
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 lesson [...]
PDFs: Two Children’s invitations to bring people to Easter events and one to encourage them to return
Strategy for Children’s events at Easter might consist of simple publications, but these simple publications can have far reaching results in how they bring people to your Easter church service and how many return on an ongoing basis.
To start, children’s invitations to Easter events can and should be very different than the ones you send out [...]
Great Idea Swap: Samples of Children’s Ministry Communications, #1
Children’s ministry requires a large number of communication pieces for a successful ministry. The following pieces are a from various churches and should give you some ideas for your ministry. These samples are from our Great Idea Swap. A brief description and a few comments goes with each one.
Click on the the image to download the [...]
Typesetting for kid’s communications
Creating communications for children can be lots of fun, especially with the fun typefaces you can use.
This PDF gives you some guidelines to make your use of them more effective.
One very important guideline to keep in mind is to NEVER use the typefaces that have reversed letters (such as a reversed “e” or “s”). It [...]
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 stubs. But [...]
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 embarassing [...]
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