Effective Church Communications

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, ...

Desperation isn't pretty in volunteer requests. If you feel like shutting down the children's ministry if new people don't sign up or closing the bathrooms on Sunday morning if no ...

There are many reasons why churches aren't successful in recruiting and retaining volunteers, but one of the most damaging may be that we have an underlying incorrect assumption about how ...

Yvon's note: though this material and the video is several years old, it has some extremely useful material that will help you be successful in your fall outreach. Consider the ...

Let’s be honest, it would be terribly scary to pray in public around the flagpole of your school. But that is what the organizers of See You at the Pole ...

Churches sometimes use auto-responders—the messages that are sent out automatically with your email programs to people who either join a church mailing list or who have been entered into a ...

Labor Day is over and suddenly it's Fall! Though we will be doing lot's of new things for the upcoming holiday season, there are many resources in our Template Section ...

One of the most horrifying memories I have of a church leader is when he told me and my husband, who was the Single Adult Pastor at the church, that ...

Kids love to get mail especially in the days of almost all electronic communications and social media. A letter or postcard addressed to them is something very special because they ...

We all need inspiration and this week I got a catalog in the mail that greatly inspired me with new designs and color combinations. I decided the best way to ...

August is the last month of vacation for many and in many churches the time when attendance drops to an all-time low. Though understandable, sometimes all people need is a ...

Many churches hold end-of-the-summer events. Ours ours does a Lemon Festival with a free community BBQ and a huge lemon dessert contest. We are a neighborhood church that was built ...

Some of the happiest times of my life as a child were in summer Daily Vacation Bible School and that wonderful experience continues in many churches today. Kids have a ...

I recently attended a church event where I was extremely uncomfortable. Mind you—I'm a church person, one who grew up in the church, loves the church, is there every week ...

From my email: "We're doing our announcements on PowerPoint and we have all the information about our weekly activities on our website. We are an outreach oriented, contemporary church and ...

Church bulletins remain one of the most important pieces of church communication and this book features PDFs of articles by Yvon Prehn all on the topic of how to create ...

Whoever wrote that song, "Summertime and the livin' is easy" did not work in church communications. The pace and type of activities change in the summer, but with Bible camps ...

Ed. note: this is an excerpt from a longer article on summer communication strategy, but I feel the topic is so important, I wanted to post it on it's own ...

This summer your church will get lots of visitors, some of whom are friends of church members who might not regularly go to church, others may be from the surrounding ...

"God’s love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love." is one of my favorite definitions of grace and as Jesus's disciples, grace is an attribute and action ...

Today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day and while we commemorate and honor the sacrifices of those who stormed the beaches of Normandy I think it is appropriate to remind ...

It's easy to look at Father's Day as just another holiday to do up a special bulletin and social media for and to say a few nice things about Dads ...

Dad's come in all shapes, sizes, and colors and the selection of Bulletin Inserts here reflects that. The overall theme of the insert is general thankfulness for Fathers and you ...

Many churches today have an ideal church member they want to recruit—the younger male, the dad with a young family, and Father's Day is a great time to do a focused ...