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		<title>Book Preview: The post-modern effect on church communications and how we got to where we are</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/06/book-preview-the-post-modern-effect-on-church-communications-and-how-we-got-to-where-we-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed. note: A new, completely revised and expanded edition of The Five Steps of Effective Church Communications &#38; Marketing, to enable your church to fully fulfill the Great Commission, will be released in a few weeks. This is one section from it. The post-modern effect on church communications and how we got to where we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Video, Foundation: The Uniqueness of Church Communications</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first of our Online Video, Foundation:  The Uniqueness of Church Communications, including the Five Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing and why marketing is not evil If you are serious about wanting to create communications that will not only look professional, but will make a significant impact on growing your church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measure success correctly—or why a big turnout doesn’t necessarily mean a successful event</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2010/11/measure-success-correctly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you measure success in a church outreach event? Immediately after any event is a great time to evaluate past actions and plan future successes. A great turnout doesn&#8217;t equal great results I recently looked at a church website that celebrated the great success of their fall outreach by listing the number of hot dogs served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Steps Strategy #1: Create multi-channel communication</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2010/02/strategy-1-multi-channel-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this time of ever-changing options for communicating in our churches, it is easy to be overwhelmed and we naturally want to simplify our communication workload.  This is expressed by the question I get frequently  in my seminars and through email when people ask me, “What is the best way to communicate with people today? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Steps Strategy #2: Divide your communication team into two production levels</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/strategy-2-communication-teams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You need a team of communicators to get all the work done you need to in any size of church. Some may be paid staff, some volunteers, or they might be all volunteers. Whenever I mention volunteers in my seminars there is a gasp and the spoken or unspoken fear expressed, “What if I can’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Steps Strategy #3:  Always be who you are, where you are</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/strategy-3-be-who-you-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/strategy-3-be-who-you-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God called you to a specific church, in a specific location, with a specific audience to reach for Jesus.  As part of creating communications specifically for your audience, don’t try to make your communications look like those from any other church and be cautious in the use of glossy, pre-done, nationally sold pieces. The same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Steps Strategy #4:  Don’t let money be a determining factor</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/strategy-4-dont-let-money-decide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/strategy-4-dont-let-money-decide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Five Steps can (and I have seen examples of this many times) can be implemented in any size church and on any budget. If you have (or are) a faithful communication creator who uses only MS Word, or WordPerfect, or MS Publisher or whatever—wonderful, useful communications can be created. You do not need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Steps Strategy #5: Do not confuse irreverence for relevancy.</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/strategy-5-not-irreverence-for-relevancy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/strategy-5-not-irreverence-for-relevancy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We serve a holy God. There is a tendency today for some in church communications circles to use shocking or flippant language or advertising with the excuse of making the church appeal to the unchurched, or to make their communications appear cutting edge, professional, and contemporary. This is wrong. As Jesus’ ambassadors and representatives our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundation of The Five Steps: Disciple-making</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/foundation-of-the-five-steps-disciple-making/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/foundation-of-the-five-steps-disciple-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know we should obey Great Commission and that the Great Commission commands we make disciples, but beyond the personal  spiritual significance of that command, it’s easy to forget the practical power of disciple-making in church growth. Building disciples isn’t only what we are supposed to be doing, it’s how to grow people and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chart: The Five Steps of Effective Church Communciations &amp; Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/chart-the-five-steps-of-effective-church-communciations-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/chart-the-five-steps-of-effective-church-communciations-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Five Steps of Effective Church Communication and Marketing This chart is the visual representation of Five Steps of Effective Church Communication and Marketing, a church communication system created by Yvon Prehn that helps churches fully fulfill the Great Commission. Instead of church communications consisting of scattered pieces (any one of which might be wonderful [...]]]></description>
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