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 [...]
Text for Lenten inserts for pre-Easter communications
A very kind reader of this website emailed me and shared that she was not able to extract the text of the Lenten bulletin insert above and that she wanted to use it in her church newsletter.
For her sake and for those of you who would like the text, following this introduction is the text [...]
Why it’s important to remind our congregations about Lent
This article has two styles of Lenten bulletin inserts, one using clipart, one with a modified photo.Each PDF has two images per 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet. use the back side to include invitations to events, websites or verses for additional study or a place for a prayer list for your people to use [...]
FREE Valentines Day Bulletin Inserts, to remind people that God loves them
Bulletin inserts are a great tool for evangelism for seasonal Sundays because often family members visit who do not attend your church regularly.
Some of the folks in your church may have the courage to invite family to church, but not know how to share the gospel message with them. This is where an insert can [...]
Free collection of Valentines materials
This PDF collection contains six Valentine’s Day postcards that you can use for handouts, invitations, inserts in gift bags or however else you might find useful for Valentine’s Day.
In addition the collection also has a PDF for church leaders encouraging them to give authority, protection, training, and rewards to church communicators and a PDF of [...]
Be proactive, not reactive in your church communications
The start of each year is a good time to evaluate your church communications effectiveness. The Course on Planning on this site can help you with training and forms that will measure how effective your specific communication programs are. However, your church may need more than charts and forms to significantly increase the effectiveness of your communications if [...]
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