Course on Planning Overview

Courses on this Effective Church Communications website  are where we link together resources that relate to a particular topic. You can access and use them in any way that works for you. You can use them for training in staff and communication team meetings or anytime that you would like instruction or inspiration.
This course is on [...]

VIDEO: How to plan, measure, and evaluate church communication effectiveness

When you have advertised a church need, for example when you want volunteers to help with a ministry in the church, if you don’t get the response you want, how do you respond?
Many churches respond by assuming that: 1) by simply doing the PR they communicated the need and that people will respond; 2) that [...]

Planning Book PDF download, special edition

This Special Edition of our book on Planning is part of our overall course on planning.
Click here or on the image to get the book.
You can either read the book online or download and print it.
The full length book is available at www.lulu.com/yvonprehn

The disappointing results when you jump into church communications production without planning and how to change them to positive ones

We have extraordinary tools available to create church communications and to wow people with our multi-media technology creations. Churches of every size can create can challenge members with video, media-rich websites and colorful print graphics. Dedicated church communication teams work hard to turn church leadership vision into reality. So what happens when we create these [...]

VIDEO: Church Communication FORMS: to help you plan, measure, and evaluate communication effectiveness

This video goes over a set of forms that will help you be more effective in your church communication ministry. It shows you step-by-step how to use them and explains why they are useful for ministry.
Many problems in church communications planning and management can be solved if the church uses forms because forms take opinions [...]