Video: How to create an Easter theme image by modifying a free 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 what is [...]
PDF and text: Jelly Bean Prayer for Children’s Ministry, downloadable cards and text
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 lesson [...]
PDFs: Two Children’s invitations to bring people to Easter events and one to encourage them to return
Strategy for Children’s events at Easter might consist of simple publications, but these simple publications can have far reaching results in how they bring people to your Easter church service and how many return on an ongoing basis.
To start, children’s invitations to Easter events can and should be very different than the ones you send out [...]
Church connection cards—the foundation of all other church communications—at Easter and always
In church communications, we are often like Elijah-we expect God to speak through the thunder and storm. But what God often uses is similar to how he ultimately spoke to Elijah—through a still small voice. The place of connection cards in your church communication ministry is similar. They appear tiny and unimportant in the great [...]
VIDEO and PDF Tutorial: How to create resizable graphics with MS Publisher
Wouldn’t it be great to have graphic images you could resize and use both on the web and in print? Wouldn’t it be great to use something like that for a unified graphics look for holidays or ministry campaigns? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to create something like that inexpensively without using an [...]
VIDEO and PDF TUTORIAL: How to create Custom Headers for websites with MS Publisher
Creating a custom header for a website can be an expensive and difficult process, but it can be a very simple process if you do it with MS Publisher. This video does not teach you how to do websites, but if you already have one, for example with WordPress, this will show you how to [...]
Great example of Olympic outreach in church communciations and kindness
The Winter Olympics of 2010 just concluded their final ceremony, but the love of Jesus and his people that was communicated by one church will have a lasting impact on many people.
Trinity Lutheran Church opened up their parking lot, facilities, and hearts to thousands of visitors this week and one of their members, Ewald Wuschke [...]
Video: The best page layouts for print, e-books, pdfs and the web
Today we are able to repurpose our communications in a variety of ways: print, PDFs, e-books, and the web. Services like www.lulu.com, an online, on-demand publishing company (and the one I use to create my paperback books) allows anyone to create professional-looking books for no upfront costs. However, even though we have these new technologies, [...]
Basic books on bulletins and connection cards and more: all books on www.lulu.com all 20% off!
Many of our basic books for church communicators are sold through www.lulu.com/yvonprehn. All those $5.00 and over in price are now 20% off. Some changes (very exciting and for the better) in this great company, combined with some requests from our readers require us to go through some significant revisions in the coming months. Along [...]
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