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		<title>Listing of Christmas Resources: invitations, bulletins, templates, gospel presentations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a listing of the links of helpful resources for Christmas&#8211;I put this together to make it useful for you. Just click on any link to go directly to the article. Business or Invitation cards for Christmas or outreach, gifts, PR, invitations to come back to church, whatever you can think of Connection Cards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business or Invitation cards for Christmas or outreach, gifts, PR, invitations to come back to church, whatever you can think of</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business and invitation cards can be used for so many things during the Christmas season: invitations, gift enclosures, links to website explanations about your church or Facebook or Twitter encouragements, cards to encourage people to come back to church, gift tags, or whatever else you can think of. The two cards here are free for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ebook: Christmas Communications, how-tos and ready-to-print PDFs of invitations, postcards, bulletin inserts, gospel presentations</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/12/ebook-christmas-communications-how-tos-and-ready-to-print-pdfs-of-invitations-postcards-bulletin-inserts-gospel-presentations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For your inspiration and communication production convenience during the Christmas season this 80-page book downloadable ebook has how-to articles to make you more effective in your church communications for Christmas, plus ready-to-print PDFs that range from very simple one, clip art designs to ones using full-color illustrations. **Not only is this a great tool for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connection Cards for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all your hard work to get people to come to your Christmas events, you want to make sure you make a connection with them so that they will return to your church after the holidays. To do that you need to capture names and contact information. These Connection Cards  for Christmas are a simple-to-create, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas brochure that explains the gospel&#8211;Hark the Herald Angels Sing, but why?</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/12/a-christmas-brochure-that-explains-the-gospel-hark-the-herald-angels-sing-but-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas events should always have a clear presentation of the good news of salvation in Jesus. Jesus is the &#8220;reason for the Season,&#8221; but also your Christmas events are a time when people will be visiting your church who often don&#8217;t come. No matter how fantastic your music or program, no matter how delicious the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our most important time, our quiet time with God</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/11/our-most-important-time-our-quiet-time-with-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/11/our-most-important-time-our-quiet-time-with-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed. note: We are all familiar with the story of Mary and Martha, but it is so easy to forget when we are working so hard for Jesus, to spend time with Him—Gayle&#8217;s article is a wonderful reminder of how important that time is. Even in churches it is easy to neglect to leave “God [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Holiday visitors—how to turn them into regular attenders</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/11/holiday-into-regular-attenders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we go into the holiday season, your church will be holding many events that will attract visitors. You want these visitors to become regular attenders and you can help make this possible not only by the quality of your holiday event, but by the follow-up publications you send out. Successful follow-up publications DO NOT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best way to get people to come to Christmas church events&#8211;and THREE new Christmas bulletin inserts that help!</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/11/the-best-way-to-get-people-to-come-to-church-events-and-a-new-christmas-bulletin-insert-that-helps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you say is the answer to the challenge of getting unchurched visitors to come to your Christmas events? Is it to buy a national outreach campaign of postcards? Is it to spend lots of money on advertisements in the local newspaper? Is it to create colorful website banners for the holidays? Though all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: How to Download and Use ZIP files, using New Christmas Designs as Examples</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/11/video-how-to-download-and-use-zip-files-using-new-christmas-designs-as-examples/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/11/video-how-to-download-and-use-zip-files-using-new-christmas-designs-as-examples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ZIP files are a great way to transfer a large amount of data from our files to you. With them you can receive ready-to-print PDFs, editable MS Publisher files, images, ebooks and all kinds of useful resources. The ZIP files created for Effective Church Communication Members (CLICK HERE to go to ECC Membership Information) are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 NEW Christmas designs for church bulletins, booklet covers, postcards and invitations</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/11/5-new-christmas-designs-for-booklet-covers-postcards-and-invitations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/11/5-new-christmas-designs-for-booklet-covers-postcards-and-invitations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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