Effective Church Communications

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators. 

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators.
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About ECC: Yvon Prehn and where to find her books

8 November, 2013 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Effective Church Communications Yvon PrehnYvon Prehn is the founder, director, and primary content creator of the training site for church communicators: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com, a website that provides practical training in print and digital communications to help churches fully fulfill the Great Commission.

Yvon worked in communication ministry for over 25 years. She was a free-lance newspaper reporter and religion writer for the Colorado Springs SUN.  She worked as a communications consultant and trainer for many of the ministries headquartered in
Colorado Springs and was senior editor at Compassion International and Young life International.

She then began writing and teaching seminars on church communications and doing free-lance

communications, marketing, and publication design. When desktop publishing was first invented,Yvon was a top-rated, national trainer in desktop publishing for Padgett/Thompson, the nation’s largest one-day seminar company and she wrote the first book on desktop publishing for the church, The Desktop Publishing Remedy. Though her time at Padgett/Thompson was an invaluable learning experience, Yvon

Yvon and Paul Prehn
Yvon Prehn and her husband Paul, one Sunday morning at church.

wanted to work primarily helping churches communicate more effectively. Once again, she went out on her own, traveled and taught seminars to churches. She then served as an independent trainer in partnership with the Riso Corporation and for fourteen years she traveled full-time all over North America teaching seminars on church communications to thousands of church communicators.

Yvon has written for many of the major Christian magazines. She has written the books:  Connection Cards, connect with visitors, grow your church, pastor your people—little cards, big results, Back to Basics, Writing and Design Skills for Church Communicators, The Six Strategies of Effective Church Communications, Devotions for Church Communicators, Church Business & Invitation Cards, and many others on church communications.

Currently, Yvon is creating articles, books, videos, blogs, podcasts, and other training to educate, equip and inspire church communicators. Yvon and her husband Paul live in Ventura, CA.

Yvon Prehn, Founder of Effective Church Communications
Yvon Prehn is the founder and primary content creator for Effective Church Communications.

Where to find more Yvon Prehn resources

Many of Yvon Prehn's books are available in ebook versions and are free for Effective Church Communications Members, but they are also available in print and Kindle and other reader versions at the links below:

Yvon Prehn’s books in paperback

A growing choice is available at http://www.amazon.com. Just enter “Yvon Prehn” in the search box to go to her list of books, if the previous link doesn't take you directly to it. ****THERE IS a FREE Kindle version of our best-selling, Connection Cards book at this link.

The regular amazon pricing, shipping, free shipping offers apply.

If you would like to buy books in bulk at a reduced price, or are interested commissioning a
Personalized Special Edition for a training event or conference, contact yvon@effectivechurchcom.com.

Digital versions and downloadable e-books are available from:

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/yvonprehn

This site has lots of free special edition ebooks. It also allows you to download books in any ebook format. New ones are continuously added, so check back often. Please pass on this link to church, mission, and other groups for the free downloads.

Yvon’s digital books are also available from these major online and retail sources, just put “Yvon Prehn” into their search function to find the books or click on the links below. These selections are added to often, so check back for new titles.

www.amazon.com: Kindle versions for download to the Kindle reader available here

Itunes online bookstore

Barnes and Noble online bookstore

Contact information for reprint rights and excerpt rights

To request free reprint permission of articles or contributions to websites or books, email: yvon@effectivechurchcom.com

Any Christian group or church can freely reprint excerpts from this website or my ebooks without bothering to contact me as long as you use the link and citation: from Yvon Prehn, www.effectivechurchcom.com.

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