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Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission

Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and a Biblical Perspective to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. Our tools constantly change; our task doesn’t; we can help.

Pastor Laurence Edgar from Belfast shares his experiences publishing with Kindle

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Pastor Laurence Edgar from Belfast
Pastor Laurence Edgar from Belfast shares his experiences publishing with Kindle

One of the things I love about this site is when those of you reading it share your experiences in church communications. Recently I received an email from Pastor Laurence Edgar from Belfast sharing his experiences on creating books for Kindle. I got his permission to share them with you and they are shared below, lightly edited for space.

One of the most important things about this is the encouragement that if you have a message you feel the Lord wants you to share, you can do it. You never know who will come across your material once you put it out there. Here is what Pastor Laurence had to say about it:

An Opportunity for All

by Pastor Laurence Edgar

Here is an opportunity for everyone who can write—converting your books to Kindle. Fiction, Novels, Series, Religion, Write articles, Food Recipes, Music, Exercise, Keep Fit, Sports, Healthy Eating. Write just about anything. It could turn out to be an extra source of income for them or their church.

I myself always liked writing tracts, and Bible Verses. I began to write small booklets
several years back. I tried to sell them as downloads through a web site which I designed,
without success, no one ever downloaded them.

Then I read about Kindle and I decided to take up the challenge. I edited my books into Kindle format, simple PDF format. I designed a Book cover, which wasn’t really that difficult. Nothing difficult about the whole process.

Here is how I did it: [Read more...]

Communication creation tips for reaching time-stressed and time-starved audiences

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Remember time stress when creating church communications
Remember the time stress of your audience when creating church communications.

Need some evidence that it isn't just your imagination making you feel stressed out? An article in the Wall Street Journal concluded: ". . . .at the end of the weekend, you are more than a full day behind in your activities. Even if we went to an eight-day week you still would be 4.5 hours behind."

Ed note before I continue: I wrote this article several years ago and while updating the website ran across it. The time challenges of your audience today make it worth another look because though a few years have passed if anything the situation of time demands has become even more challenging as we attempt to reach people. Following is a reprint of the article with a number of updates added.

An article in the Wall Street Journal reported Americans work an average of 53 hours a week. Dale McFeatters took that statistic and calculated that if an individual did all the activities reported such as sleeping, TV, dressing, etc., without multitasking, that person would have a 28.5 hour a week time deficit. In addition to helping explain why we often feel stressed and tired,his calculations help explain why it is so difficult to get people respond to the communications from your church. Following are some ideas on how to communicate your church's message to a time-stressed and time-starved audience. [Read more...]

A very FREE, FUN, EASY, and Creative tool for Halloween graphics

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This is SO much fun! It is a short presentation of a free and very easy and fun program you can use to create and modify Halloween communications. So many things I've talked about Halloween outreach are rather heavy and intense--this is purely a fun thing--a way to modify any image with Halloween images.


 
CLICK HERE TO go to LINKS to motivation and tools to help you share the good news about Jesus at Halloween

Don’t be a secret-service Christian, how church communicators can help

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When you do outreach in the name of Jesus, communicate about Him.
When you do outreach in the name of Jesus, don't be a secret Christian.

True story here about a lost opportunity to share Jesus:

In our area, one church frequently does a compassionate outreach at a Laundromat in an area of town where many homeless people do their laundry.

My husband, who is a bi-vocational pastor and who does handyman work to support our ministry habits, was on a job recently with a homeless young man. When he overheard him talking about "some guy who paid for my laundry," my husband asked him who did that and what they talked about.

The young man responded, "He didn't say anything—he and his wife just sat in a corner for two hours. I would have talked to him if he wanted—he put in ten bucks for me."

How sad! To pay for washer and dryer use for people who sometimes must choose between clean clothes and a decent meal is a fantastic way to demonstrate caring in the name of Jesus—IF people know you are doing it in the name of Jesus. If not, you may be considered nice, but perhaps a bit strange. [Read more...]

Church Invitation Cards, why they work so well & how to use them

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Church Business Cards make great invitations to church
Church Business Cards make great invitations to church, here's why and how to use them effectively.

A personal invitation is one of the best ways to get people to come to your church and one of the best ways for people to remember your invitation and actually show up at the church is for you to give them a business card with the church information on it.

PLEASE take a few minutes to watch this video on the value of them and how to use them effectively.

Below the video are more resources to help you create them. [Read more...]