Planning Overview: articles, videos, templates for Effective Church Communication Planning, Measuring, Evaluating

In many churches communications are done because “we’ve always done it that way” or as a response to a pressing need for PR to advertise a church event or recruit helpers for a ministry. Though something gets done and it sometimes gets a response, this approach is not the best way to make your church [...]

FREE FOR ECC MEMBERS e-book: Planning Book special edition: Big is busted, try tiny

This Special Edition of our book on Planning is part of our overall materials on planning. So often we tend to think that we have to do big, extravagant things to impress people and to get them to come to our church. Sometimes big and impressive does work, but quite often it is the little [...]

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

Ed. note: January 2012: This video will be free through Tuesday, Jan.24 , 2012 and then it will only be available for Effective Church Communication Members. For membership information and sign up, CLICK HERE. When you have advertised a church need, such as when you want volunteers to help with a ministry in the church, [...]

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

Ed. note: January 2012: This video will be free through Tuesday, Jan.24 , 2012 and then it will only be available for Effective Church Communication Members.For more information on ECC Membership, CLICK HERE. This video goes over a set of forms that will help you be more effective in your church communication ministry. It shows [...]