Snappa: The easiest way to create social media verses
Images with verses on them that fill our screens and phones can be wonderful moments of encouragement and refreshment. If we want to create them to share with others, Snappa ...
Snappa: Super quick and easy, how to create a side-bar ad with it
Snappa has removed a huge source of frustration for me because I never seem to manage my creative time as well as I start the day hoping I will. I'll ...
TWO of FIVE TRENDS that will reshape media in 2019
MarketingWeek.com, a marketing group from England just published an article on their Five Trends that they believe will reshape media in the coming year. Amid rather obvious ones like e-commerce ...
Pantone’s Color of the year–a vibrant, hopeful, lively Coral
Well, this is different. After a murky green in 2017 and a vibrant, but somewhat depressing purple last year, Pantone's color of the year for 2019 is a vibrant, hopeful, and ...
The MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do this year—read through the Bible in Chronological order—and I’d like to help you do it
This falls under the category of putting your own oxygen mask on first before you help someone else. YOU have to be spiritually strong if you are going to successfully ...
All will be well—because Jesus came and is coming
The world has gotten pretty crazy over the last year and it probably won't improve much next year. But as Christ-followers our hope isn't in dreams and prayers for a ...
All will be well—a free download to encourage you
To encourage you, from our archives I wanted to share an encouraging saying from Julian of Norwich. In the 14th century, she survived illness, plagues, and lived as a mystic ...
Last-minute Christmas strategy and FREE Templates–to encourage guests to come back to and get involved with your church
Wouldn't it be great if just one fantastic church service, event, or sermon could assure that unchurched visitors would come back to your church, learn about Jesus, come to know ...
NEW Designs and Christmas Letter in Audio format–Hark the Herald Angels Sing, but WHY?
This Christmas letter/flyer/gospel sharing message has been downloaded hundreds of times and can be used in many ways during the Christmas Season. And NOW I have it for you in ...
GIVING TUESDAY—my gift to YOU—dozens of FREE CHRISTMAS Templates!!!!! No strings attached…..really FREE
I've had trouble not being a bit of a humbug the last few days. From the horror of Black Friday frenzy intruding into Thanksgiving to the screaming online advertisements of ...
Video: about ECC TEMPLATES and an overview of FREE CHRISTMAS TEMPLATES
Christmas is incredibly busy and Templates, when you want to do something quickly without having to take time to agonize over design or legal images or what typeface to use, ...
PODCAST: More than a Pretty Face–Free Templates with a Ministry Strategy
There are lots of church communication templates out there, so why should you use our? First of all they are FREE, but more than that there are 4 reasons ...
Personal note—once again fires raging in California
Last Thursday afternoon a phone call came, “Camarillo Springs is on fire.” Camarillo Springs is a mobile home park not far from Ventura where we live, and we have several ...
Don’t be a Secret Saint—a better way to do outreach and connect people to your church!
Have you ever been in a situation where you do outreach activities or acts of kindness as part of your church, but you never see anybody come to church because ...
A video comparison of PicMonkey, Canva, and Snappa
After the recent overview/tutorial of Snappa, an Effective Church Communications member asked me how it compared to Canva and PicMonkey. That was such a good question and as I thought ...
For the heart of church communicators: Bible 805, a podcast about history and the Bible
Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, Jesus told us. It's valid to continue that thought that out of what's in our hearts is what will come ...
New Host! Effective Church Communications Podcast now available on Itunes; Spotify, Stitcher, Public Radio and many more !
I've done podcasts in a variety of formats on this site, but I found a new way that allows the podcast to be distributed in a way I wasn't able ...
And now podcasts—one more way to share encouragement, training, good news, our faith!
Who would have imagined the oldest way to communicate—with our voice—would be the latest, greatest thing in communications? Even more, who would have imagined that one of the oldest technologies—radio—would ...
Snappa: Review and How-tos of a GREAT program to create social media graphics
Snappa is a great program for the fastest, easiest ways to make social media and online graphics! I've used it for some time (in fact, all the graphics you see ...
Fall Festival and Halloween Resources, invitations, registration cards, encouragement flyers, lots more
Lots of good stuff here and ALL FREE! Some new, some a few years old, but all for you to use as you'd like. Just click on the link below ...
A non-scary way to share your faith at Fall Festivals and Halloween
Halloween is a fantastic time for outreach and many churches make the most of it with Trunk or Treat, a Fall Festival and similar outreach activities. In addition to that, ...
Was Jesus a zombie—NO irreverence intended, but an honestly asked question and an answer
I was challenged with this question twice in one week from people who were quite serious and not affiliated with any church in any way. After I got over my ...
More powerful than social media to invite, connect, share your faith—church & ministry business & invitation cards
Social media is powerful, but there are many times in our day and ministries where we don't have or can't use it—at a hospital visitation, in a casual conversation, times ...
How to pass on sensitive ministry information for domestic abuse, drug abuse, and pornography addition help
Our world hurts. People hurt each other and they hurt themselves. The good news of the gospel is there is healing for every hurt available in Jesus and given out ...
