What Church Secretaries wish their pastors knew about church communications
I created this video not only because I talk to, email and communicate with many church secretaries, administrative assistants, and church office professionals, but also I have done the secretarial and communications work in various amounts, for many years for my husband who is a bi-vocational pastor. This is a job with tremendous responsibilities and [...]
The Two Levels of Church Communications & how to equip and train church communication teams, a Webinar On-Demand
To get all the church communications done that you need to do outreach, grow your church and your people, it takes more than one person. However, because of the budget limitations of many churches that means using volunteers and church staffs often worry that volunteers will not be able to create the quality of communications [...]
$2.00 Trial Membership in Effective Church Communications
If you’ve wanted to try out the benefits of Effective Church Communication Membership, we’ve got a great deal for you! For only $2.00 you will get a full month’s trial membership! You will have access to all the benefits of ECC Membership (all of these are under the #1 Members-Only Resources tab) including : 26 [...]
Recruiting Volunteers—Why and How
Article by Gayle Hilligoss Ed.note: Volunteers are often essential if you want to get done the amount of communications needed for all the ministries in a church. The primary ministry assistant usually has more than enough projects in addition to the primary communication work (bulletin, newsletter, website) of the church to keep her very busy. [...]
A Case Study to help you be more successful in recruiting volunteers, example a church Trunk or Treat, a Webinar On-Demand
Recruiting enough volunteers is always a successful challenge for any church event and few are the churches that report they have enough. When the event takes place and there are not enough people, not only is it tiring for the staff and the volunteers that are there, but it is spiritually trying also. Why didn’t [...]
Clear communications help you create volunteer recruitment and retention
Many churches operate on what I call the 80/20 fallacy. We’ve all heard that “80 percent of the people do 20 percent of the work.” That is true in many churches, but I call it a fallacy because it does not need to be that way. We forget that statement is merely a business observation—it [...]
The Five Steps Strategy #2: Divide your communication team into two production levels
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 [...]
Communications for a good continuing relationship with your volunteers
Every church is desperate for volunteers. It’s not only important to effectively recruit them, but after they are recruited, it is equally important to work hard to keep them. Unfortunately, the difference between how we treat volunteers when we are recruiting them and after they volunteer is sometimes similar to the difference with some couples [...]
Jesus and Perfection in Church Publications
Posted by Yvon Prehn on December 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Sometimes people don’t think they are doing all they can for the Lord, that they aren’t excellent or perfect enough in their communications ministry unless what they produce is done in slick, full-color printing or is professionally programmed. Sadly, it also often means that no one in the church is good enough to create the [...]
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