New and FREE set of 11 Easter Invitation Cards—equip your people for Easter Outreach and inviting!
In a recent podcast and blog, I strongly encouraged you to focus on the people in your church as your primary way to reach out to your community at Easter ...
What if your church did NO advertising for Easter? Or other seasonal outreach times? Try this Biblical alternative!
Ed. note: In updating this important blog for Easter preparation, I wanted to do more than send out a blog, so I made a podcast related to it. The two ...
What Tesla can teach us about successful church marketing
Did you know that Tesla sells more luxury cars than any other company? I think the challenge of that question is so important, I did both a blog and article ...
How to involve your congregation in Easter Outreach and why it is so important to do that
Ed. note: Our most recent podcast, What Tesla can teach us about successful church marketing talked about the importance of people who love a product talking about it and how ...
Lent is for everyone, Templates, text, and a variety of ways to communicate it
Observing Lent isn’t about a denomination, or whether your church is liturgical or not. Lent helps us to put the Christian life into a biblical perspective. It’s a time to ...
My recommendations for your spiritual preparations for Easter—and for the challenging work you do all year long
Creating church communications any time of the year is a challenge, but preparing for Easter is one of the most challenging because there is so much to do for the ...
ECC PODCAST: Don’t default to Magical Thinking when planning your seasonal outreach
PODCAST INTRO: Easter is fast approaching and as we look at all the work ahead, don't you wish that people would magically appear at your events after one announcement from ...
Let’s get real—don’t default to Magical Thinking when planning your seasonal outreach
You might protest you would NEVER count on magic to do anything in the church and mean it. But unfortunately, the communication actions in many churches tell a different story ...
Free Instagram Valentines for sharing Jesus love and challenges to consider it
Everyone is looking for love or wishing they had love, or celebrating the love they have for Valentines Day. But beyond the joys of human love is the love Jesus ...
Links to free Valentines Day templates, ideas, plus a reminder to church leaders to be nice to church communicators
Here is a list of links to articles and resources to help your church make the most of Valentine’s Day. Though many of the resources are specific to Valentines Day, ...
A free Valentines Day flyer or bulletin insert to remind people of God’s love, plus strategy to make the most of it
Today many people have restless hearts. Life may not be what we wanted, dreamed about, or even find tolerable. Our restless hearts may be in many areas of life, but ...
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 ...
PODCAST: 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 ...
