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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
