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		<title>What Church Secretaries wish their pastors knew about church communications</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be a better listener, part one: Mastering the Most Overlooked Communication Skill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed. note: this week celebrates Administrative Assistants and this series of articles gives some of the best advice possible for good working relationships. Without listening, it&#8217;s hard for anything constructive to take place in the church office—give yourself a gift—read all three parts as they are posted, and learn to listen well. “I know you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Levels of Church Communications &amp; how to equip and train church communication teams, a Webinar On-Demand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$2.00 Trial Membership in Effective Church Communications</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve wanted to try out the benefits of  Effective Church Communication Membership, we&#8217;ve got a great deal for you! For only $2.00 you will get a full month&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recruiting Volunteers—Why and How</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus and Perfection in Church Publications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes people don&#8217;t think they are doing all they can for the Lord, that they aren&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Case Study to help you be more successful in recruiting volunteers, example a church Trunk or Treat, a Webinar On-Demand</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2010/09/a-case-study-to-help-you-be-more-successful-in-recruiting-volunteers-example-a-church-trunk-or-treat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2010/09/a-case-study-to-help-you-be-more-successful-in-recruiting-volunteers-example-a-church-trunk-or-treat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clear communications help you create volunteer recruitment and retention</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/volunteer-recruitment-communications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/volunteer-recruitment-communications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/strategy-2-communication-teams/#comments</comments>
		<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>Communications for a good continuing relationship with your volunteers</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/communications-for-volunteers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/communications-for-volunteers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every church is desperate for volunteers. It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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