FREE Six-part Webinar: How to write for the Web plus FREE ebooks to celebrate International Evangelism Day
In celebration of Internet Evangelism Day, April 29, the following material will be free all this week. Take time to go over this material–even if you’ve been working on your website for some time, this material will improve your writing for it. First is a six-part Webinar on How to Write for the Web. Please [...]
After the Sunday after Easter— 5 questions to ask
After the Sunday after Easter— 5 questions to ask yourself if your church didn’t get the return numbers you wanted By Yvon Prehn For almost two months prior to Easter, the primary focus of most churches is on how to get the most people possible to the Easter service. With a tremendous amount of work [...]
Bulletin insert example: compassionate, timely fund-raising for current spring disasters
When disaster happens, some of the first responders are always the churches. Their work doesn’t often make the evening news, but I know it brings joy to our Lord. How we respond is also a powerful witness to our world, not only in our work, but our works. A blog linked to the ECLA disaster [...]
The Micah 6:8 Communication Project Overview: to help communicators “do justice, love mercy, walk humbly”
God has given us extraordinary communication tools today: computers, the web, social media. At the same time we face immense challenges in our world: hunger, disease, human trafficking, natural disasters. Over both these situations is the imperative from God in Micah 6:8, where we are told that God requires his people to “do justice, love [...]
“More Than 1 in 5 American Children Live at Risk of Hunger” statistics and fact sites to help us communicate about hunger
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:7 Communicating information on hunger and challenging people to alter their lives and give sacrificially or to even give at all is often [...]
Give your Operation Christmas Child an opportunity to give and expand the joy
Anyone can give and everyone should have the opportunity to give, as the Apostle Paul reminded us: And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in [...]
How to get your material into Kindle, Nook, and other e-reader formats
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Always tempting to click images isn’t it? Unfortunately, not much here, but a reminder. . . that the files of these images in both 300 dpi, 96 dpi, plus editable MS Publisher files and ready-to-print PDFs are all available only to Effective Church Communication Members. If you are not a member, Consider joining! Membership is [...]
Video: What is a TEMPLATE on Effective Church Communications and how can you use them?
Templates are one of the best resources on this site because they will save you HUGE amounts of time when you need to create many church communications. Though the foundational work is done–many have artwork, text, design and much more done for you, you can change them to suit your tastes and for your church. [...]
Video: What is a PDF? the three kinds of PDFs on this website and how to use them
I’ve had a number of questions recently asking about why people can’t edit PDFs that are on this site. Since there are a number of different types of PDFs on this site and all help church communicators in different ways, I decided a video would help explain it. Below is the video and following the [...]
