Connection Cards for Christmas

After all your hard work to get people to come to your Christmas events, you want to make sure you make a connection with them so that they will return to your church after the holidays. To do that you need to capture names and contact information. These Connection Cards  for Christmas are a simple-to-create, [...]

A Christmas brochure that explains the gospel–Hark the Herald Angels Sing, but why?

Christmas events should always have a clear presentation of the good news of salvation in Jesus. Jesus is the “reason for the Season,” but also your Christmas events are a time when people will be visiting your church who often don’t come. No matter how fantastic your music or program, no matter how delicious the [...]

NEW Christmas Great Ideas & Samples PDF book!

One of my favorite parts of working on this website and ministry is the opportunity to see the wonderful work done by church communicators literally all over the world. I especially enjoy it when people send in samples and we can put them into PDF booklets and share them. Here is our latest PDF collection [...]

The best way to get people to come to Christmas church events–and THREE new Christmas bulletin inserts that help!

What would you say is the answer to the challenge of getting unchurched visitors to come to your Christmas events? Is it to buy a national outreach campaign of postcards? Is it to spend lots of money on advertisements in the local newspaper? Is it to create colorful website banners for the holidays? Though all [...]

Video: How to Download and Use ZIP files, using New Christmas Designs as Examples

ZIP files are a great way to transfer a large amount of data from our files to you. With them you can receive ready-to-print PDFs, editable MS Publisher files, images, ebooks and all kinds of useful resources. The ZIP files created for Effective Church Communication Members (CLICK HERE to go to ECC Membership Information) are [...]

5 NEW Christmas designs for church bulletins, booklet covers, postcards and invitations

The Christmas Message is always the same,but the styles we use to communicate it change. Effective Church Communications has created the designs below that can be used in many ways during the Christmas season. The designs are half of an 8 1/2 by 11 page and can be used as covers for bulletins, advent or [...]

Simple, black & white Halloween Invitation Card with an eternity changing message

The background for why I created this project is more important than most, so I’m sharing it here. In church communications, we do what we do because we believe that the eternal destinies of people depends on how they respond to Jesus. We know that–but in the midst of long days and overwhelming demands it [...]

Editable Halloween MS Publisher materials, a FREE preview PDF for all, editable files for members

The publications illustrated here cover every aspect of preparation for, what to use during and follow up for effective Halloween outreach including: ***Motivational bulletin insert ***Invitation Cards ***Case-study, volunteer recruitment brochure ***Sign-in cards ***Cards to give out as people leave your event Click on the PDF for a free overview of all the communications with [...]

Church Newsletter Samples, three great ideas for your church

Newsletters in all kinds of formats and to a variety of audiences in your church are still one of the best ways to communicate with your people. We are currently (September 2011) collecting  newsletter samples from churches to put into new volumes of our Great Ideas & Sample Swap ebooks for church communicators. Following are: [...]

Video: How to contact missing members and get them back to church

Church isn’t a priority on people’s schedule that it was in the past—work schedule changes, vacations, illness, and school sports or events are all reasons why people may not have been at church. Though people may not have a choice over some reasons, such a work scheduling, when a few weeks have gone by without [...]

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