Effective Church Communications

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.

Video: Typography Tip: What is the Lorem Ipsum text and how can I use it?

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The "Lorem Ipsum" is a section of text that is used when designers want to look at layout or typefaces without being distracted by content. For example, in the video Typogaphy Tips #1 Choosing Typefaces, I used the Lorem Ipsum to create this slide:

Lorem Ipsum example
The Lorem Ipsum dummy text was used here to create the examples. It is used so you can look at typefaces without being distracted by content.

Here is an example of the text:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin quis augue sapien, imperdiet dictum ante. Maecenas in neque in sem pulvinar adipiscing non ac risus. Donec gravida, justo nec consectetur mollis, sem leo tempor sapien, id ornare odio massa vitae tortor. Integer consectetur nibh fermentum nunc porttitor vitae suscipit tortor consequat. Fusce quam lectus, dignissim non commodo sit amet, tincidunt at lacus.

The short video below shows you a site where you can find a Lorem Ipsum generator that will create blocks of text in any length and format you want. The video illustrates the site: http://www.lipsum.com/

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ebook: Back to Basics, writing and design skills for church communicators

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Back to basics cover
This book will teach you the basics of many needed, but often not taught, communication skills in graphics, design, typography, writing, and managing. If you want your church communications to look more professional, you need this book. Available in print and ebook formats.

Most people who work on communication creation in churches have no training in design, layout, typography, and many related skills they need to do a good job. Training material is not easy to find because many of the materials available on communication design and related areas, require the use of expensive, advanced software and teach a secular, image-heavy approach that doesn't always fit the needs of the church audience.

This book provides basic training that can help every church communicator, even those with no previous graphic arts training create, write for, and manage a church communication ministry. This book is not a how-to on a particular software, but about the basic design and communication principles that form the foundation of effective communication creation.

This book is a scanned reprint of Yvon Prehn's earlier book, How to use your computer to create Better Bulletins, Newsletters, and More! All the examples in the book are from church communications and the advice is practical and Bible-inspired.

To be honest, the quality of the scans in the book isn't the greatest, but I felt the content was worth it to make this book available to you.

To buy a paperback version of the book on Amazon.com, CLICK HERE.

If you'd like the book in e-book, PDF format CLICK HERE

How to make the most of mission trip photos

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Most mission trip photos are of groups of people smiling into the camera--nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't tell you much more than a lot of people went on a mission trip. With some simple editing, you can tell a story with your images that focuses on one person and their experience. The video that follows shows you how.

Software used in the video: Paint.net

Paint.net is a fantastic image editing software and best of all, it is FREE. For a series of videos that shows you how to download and use it, CLICK HERE to go to my playlist on Paint.net on my Youtube Channel.here to find it and how to download it. ideo that shows you where to find it and how to

How to learn from Yvon Prehn Instructional videos

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The purpose of the videos I create for you is so that you will learn how to be a better communicator, but I know sometimes the videos go by quickly and it's difficult to follow the steps. This video shows you how to make the most of the instructional videos by watching a segment, then pausing it while you try the steps and going back and forth, basically copying what I do. I hope this helps--let me know either in the comments or via email at yvon@effectivechurchcom.com:

  • Did this help?
  • What would you like to learn from the videos?
  • Topics, subjects, what have you liked or want more of?
  • Any way I can make videos more helpful or effective for you?

How to turn a simple photo into a powerful illustration

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When you want to illustrate a mission or outreach project, you may have photos, but you might want an illustration and not a photograph to promote your project. Perhaps your printing method or website calls for a high contrast image or perhaps you want to universalize the image--whatever the reason, this short video will show you how to turn a good photo into a high-contrast image.

For a video that shows you how to download paint.net, the program used to create this image, click here.