Video: How to modify an Easter 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 Easter events
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 [...]
VIDEO: How to get people to come back to church after Easter and other special events
Lots of people often show up for special events hosted by a church, but even bigger than the challenge to get them to attend your event and all the work involved putting it on is the challenge to get them to come back to church and become involved in the church on a continuing basis.
This [...]
How to get people to come back to church after Easter
An overview article of the critical strategy you need to use in your church to make Easter not just the Sunday with the highest attendance of the year, but a connecting point to your church services throughout the year. Useful advice for any holiday or special event.
What makes Easter Special? a little reminder to not let what is wonderful to you, be a stumbling block to a visitor
The obvious answer to what makes Easter special is that we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection from the dead and the joy of knowing that, if we trust Him as Savior, we too will live forever, forgiven of our sins and loved by our God. That is obvious, but now, take a minute and go beyond the obvious–what [...]
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