Valentines, Bulletin Inserts and Postcards, to encourage Christians of God’s love

The other sets of Valentines files, in full and spot color are designed more for visitors to the church at Valentines  Day. After I finished creating them, I realized I wanted to do something for the Adult Sunday School class my husband and I teach to give to class members at the Valentines brunch we [...]

Church Bulletin Resources: templates, training, tips, videos, articles, books

From time to time, it’s useful to evaluate your church bulletin because I firmly believe that church bulletins are arguably the most important piece of Christian literature printed today outside the Bible. I say this often because: No matter how secular our society, people still come to church looking for answers and healing for hurts [...]

Educational tax deductions for church communications training and resources–don’t forget about them for yourself!

This suggestion comes with the important advice that any final decision on whether or not you can claim the resources suggested here as a tax deduction needs to be made with your tax consultant, but it seems like they should apply. Here is an excerpt from: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc513.html (go to this link for the whole listing [...]

Christmas church bulletin example

After sending out the Hark the Herald Angels gospel presentation, I just got this example of how one of the ECC Members used it and wanted to share it. It is a wonderful example of how to put together a very clear and complete presentation of how to come to know Jesus personally at Christmas. [...]

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 [...]

VIDEO: A GREAT way to publicize Holiday Events

Print is still one of the most powerful ways to communicate because if you do up a print piece, such as a postcard and it is placed on the refrigerator–you can’t help but see it many times! The US Postal Service reminded us of that in a little video they did, and a clip of [...]

Sample: Flyer for volunteer recruitment for a Thanksgiving outreach, a useful example for any seasonal ministry

It is challenging to plan a ministry outreach  for any holiday and even more so when we want to recruit volunteers to help with it. Because there are so many things to do for a successful outreach and our minds are pre-occupied with the event, it is easy to short-change our congregations in how we [...]

ebook: Church Business and Invitation Cards, small, but powerful outreach tools: samples & how-tos

We’ve put together an updated and expanded version of this book about these essential church communication tools. Church business and invitation cards are a small, but extremely powerful tool for your church to use in outreach, pastoral care, training in evangelism and many other uses in your church. They work so well because they are: [...]

How to receive hundreds of pages of Church Communication SAMPLES for FREE

Would you like to receive hundreds of pages of church communication SAMPLES for Free? That is what just happened for the people who sent in samples of Newsletters for our Great Ideas & Samples Swap. Everyone who contributed a sample newsletter got access to 2 PDF publications of almost 400 pages of newsletter samples. The [...]

Back to Basics, essential, foundational design, typesetting, and writing skills for church communicators

The content in this book is essential training if you want your communications on paper and the web to look professional and for all the tools of design, typography, and layout to work together to enhance your message. Links to both download and buy the book are at the end of this article. History of [...]

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