ebook: Grow Your Church through Seasonal Celebrations, special edition

In our increasingly secular, post-Christian society, it is sometimes difficult to get our unchurched friends to come to church. But no matter what their opinion of a “church service” few people can turn down a  holiday event that is free, for family and singles and where everyone has a great time. Not only can these [...]

Easter Encouragement Video for Church Communicators from Yvon Prehn

Church Communicators work so hard all year long, but the Easter season seems to have more responsibilities and work than any other time of year. To encourage church communicators and remind them of the eternal value of their work, I created this short video–enjoy!

Easter Follow-up: postcards, email messages for coffee & conversation, latte with the pastor

Many people will visit your church for Easter and in many other articles and videos on this site  you’ve been encouraged to strategically communicate with them. Your strategy includes knowing that attendance at special events is not an end in itself, but the start of a relationship with your church and Jesus. This article will [...]

Five SHORT Easter Communication Videos

The Importance of Easter Connection Cards If you don’t get contact information from your church visitors at Easter, you have no way to follow-up. This video gives you tips on how to do it and shows you samples of connection cards that you can use. Here is the link to the cards shown: http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/04/connection-cards-for-easter-dont-let-visitors-slip-away/ How [...]

Connection Cards for Easter–don’t let visitors slip away

Connection Cards are vitally important for your Easter outreach success, because if visitors don’t give you their contact information, you won’t be able to follow-up with them. You might have a huge attendance on Easter Sunday, but if the next Sunday is back to your usual numbers, you’ve missed a great opportunity to connect. If [...]

Children’s Ministry Resources for Easter: List of Links and Resources on this Site

Effective Church Communications has lots of resources for everyone and especially for ECC MEMBERS for Children’s Ministry for Easter. To make them a little bit easier to find, we’ve put links to below to the major resources. We’ll add new ones as we add materials. All of the ideas can be viewed by anyone, but [...]

Children’s Ministry Resources for Easter for Purchase

Children’s ministry is an important part of the Easter celebrations at any church. Here are EDITABLE MS PUBLISHER TEMPLATES, PDF of ideas and ready-to-print files and a Video and PDF Tutorial to help you create your own. Your purchase of these materials allows you to make as many copies of them as you want to [...]

New Easter Invitation for Children: FREE Edward the Egg Postcard Invitation

Edward the Egg is our latest Easter Invitation for Children. This invitation is available both as a quarter-page postcard and as a bookmark, that is 4 to a page. For everyone, a free PDF of the Postcard is available by clicking the image on the left. For Effective Church Communication Members, at the end of [...]

How to get people to come to your Easter services, FREE & effective Easter invitations, plus a video preview of all

The best way to invite people to come to your church services for Easter (or any special occasion) is for your church to create postcards that can be either handed out or mailed out and then for you to give them to your congregation and encourage them to use them. This is far more effective [...]

PDF and text: Easter Jelly Bean Prayer for Children’s Ministry

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 [...]

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