Postcards: For Missing Members & how to get people to come back to church
Postcards are a great way to contact people to let them know they are missed at church and you want them to return. They work so much better than a letter because they are easier to read—you don’t have to open an envelope and even if you don’t read the whole thing, chances are you [...]
Template Links: Bulletin Sample, Church Evaluation Forms, Church Invitation Cards, Holiday Marketing & Outreach
You don’t have to do all the work yourself! Templates provided by Effective Church Communications save you hours of time in planning, writing and creating church communications. Templates are one of the key tools in Effective Church Communications To help explain how to use Templates, we created a video:What is a TEMPLATE on Effective Church [...]
Video: What is a PDF? the three kinds of PDFs on this website and how to use them
I’ve had a number of questions recently asking about why people can’t edit PDFs that are on this site. Since there are a number of different types of PDFs on this site and all help church communicators in different ways, I decided a video would help explain it. Below is the video and following the [...]
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 [...]
Church Bulletin Tips and Resources from current Church Bulletin Sample Books
As part of gathering samples for our current selection of Church Bulletin Sample Books, we asked contributors for resource and production tips. The best ideas and resources come from all of you. Please add your tips and resources in the comments section. A brief video that illustrates some of the best resources and websites listed [...]
Video and article: How to create full-color FREE church postcards, business cards and other publications with VistaPrint
Please note: Videos are at the end of this article. Most of the printed publications we do in the church are done with either the copier or a digital duplicator. Sometimes we use color if we have a good color copier. These machines work for most of the products we create, but sometimes we long [...]
VIDEO Preview of the Church Bulletin Samples Books
We’ve got four books of bulletin samples, but what does that mean? This video gives you an overview of all the books, plus a preview of the BONUS sections of each sample book–the articles and reprints that will help inspire you to make the most of your church bulletins. ***VERY IMPORTANT: these SAMPLE books are [...]
