Ready-to-Print Sept. 11 (and other times): Postcard Prayers for Police, Firefighters, Soliders
Ed. Note: For my friends and ECC Members in Canada and other countries, this set of materials also has generic cards that can be used in any location, at any time to honor Police, Firefighters and Soldiers, in addition, I have one specifically for Canada. More than commemoration, consider this as a time to say [...]
REMEMBER Bulletin Inserts: for Sept 11 or other times of difficulty
There are many times in life that we need to remember God’s faithfulness and these publications will help. Effective Church Communications has created an acronym for REMEMBER width each letter the start of a phrase that will remind your people of how we need to REMEMBER God in all the hard times. The PDF to [...]
TEMPLATES: editable church communication planning and evaluation forms, plus PDFs
This set of forms is an invaluable help in planning and tracking your church communications. These are the forms that are shown in the videos and books on Planning. The Forms are FREE for ECC MEMBERS (click link at the bottom of this article) or for sale for anyone in an immediately downloadable ZIP format [...]
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 [...]
Bulletin Inserts: Shop for Your Christmas Child Boxes in August–Samaritan’s Purse shopping TIPS!
This time of year, when lots of sales are going on for Back-to-School, is a great time to buy for the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child. This is a wonderful ministry where people in your church pack shoe boxes for children in need around the world. A bulletin insert like the ones to the left [...]
Summer seasonal PR for 4th of July and Summer Events
This entry has a number of materials that are useful for connecting with people for special summer events. One is a bulletin insert that takes the line from the song, “America, America, God shed his grace on thee,” and turns the word GRACE into a prayer. It is useful for our American audience, but we [...]
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 [...]
One Mother’s Prayer, a true story that will touch many hearts for Mother’s Day and always
How long do you pray for someone? For anyone who has loved a child or friend who has strayed away from the Lord, this is much more than theory. This short piece, One Mother’s Prayer, is a true story about a mother who prayed for a wandering child and who……well, you have to read it [...]
Easter Follow-up: postcards, email messages for coffee & conversation, latte with the pastor
Many people will visit your church for Easter and in many other articles and videos on this site you’ve been encouraged to strategically communicate with them. Your strategy includes knowing that attendance at special events is not an end in itself, but the start of a relationship with your church and Jesus. This article will [...]
Connection Cards for Easter–don’t let visitors slip away
Connection Cards are vitally important for your Easter outreach success, because if visitors don’t give you their contact information, you won’t be able to follow-up with them. You might have a huge attendance on Easter Sunday, but if the next Sunday is back to your usual numbers, you’ve missed a great opportunity to connect. If [...]
