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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; Effective Church Communications can help.

Simple, easy, useful Christmas Invitation Templates

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Red & black Christmas Invitation
Click on the image to download and print the PDF; it comes 4-per page. This is free for everyone, additional ECC Members downloads are below.

For links to many more NEW Christmas communications and FREE samples in each group, CLICK HERE.

The holidays are filled with so much extravagance in everything from gifts to communications, but sometimes we just need a simple invitation. I was in that situation late Saturday night when I realized after doing all the work on the handouts and PowerPoint presentation for the Sunday morning Bible class lesson that I forgot to do up an invitation for the class Christmas Potluck.

Fortunately, I was working on this article and had one of the invitations done--quick, I opened it, added my information, printed them 4-up (I use the MS Publisher 4-on-a-page postcard template) on some pretty parchment paper, cut them apart and they were ready to go. [Read more...]

MS Publisher Templates: Church Business & Invitation Cards

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Image of Templates of Bus cardsTo make it easier for you to put into practice what you just learned (if you attended the Webinar or watched the video) about Church Business and Invitation Cards, we have some MS Publisher Templates for you. You need to have MS Publisher, but the images you see are all templates ready for you to edit, personalize and use.

Click on the image to download a larger PDF full-page preview of the images.

To be able to use and edit them, they are in a zip file below

Just click to download, save to your hard drive, open and enjoy!

For more information on Church Business & Invitation Cards, to watch videos about them and read more articles, click here.

Click here to download the zip file.

 

Video: How to create resizable maps for Church Invitation Cards and other communications

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Church Business and Invitation Cards can be powerful outreach tools, but to accomplish all they can and should for your church you need to pack as much useful information in them as possible. One key piece of information is a map to your event.

Even in these days of Google Maps, Mapquest and GPS, a simple, paper-based map is invaluable to give people an immediate and practical way to get to your church or event. It is a challenge to provide one because if you try to use one of the maps from the Internet they have too much information to shrink down in size.

You need to create your own simplified version. This is very easy to do with MS Publisher and the short video below will show you how.

IMPORTANT NOTE before you watch the video:

This video shows you how to take a screen capture of a map and then use it to easily create your own map in MS Publisher. I used Snagit, my favorite screen capture program and one I highly recommend to do the screen capture. If you do not have Snagit or any screen capture software, here are two options:

  1. Get a free trial of Snagit at www.snagit.com
  2. Go to this excellent article about free screen capture software and download one of the products. I have not used these (keep wanting to try one, but love Snagit so much....), but this is a trustworthy site just click the URL and it will take you to the site: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-screen-capture-utility.htm

Cheese Ball Recipe Cards, great follow-up and outreach tools

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Blue Cheese Log or Cheese ball
One of the recipes in the ZIP file that that FREE for ECC Members.

Everybody loves recipes and the taste of homemade Cheese Balls is a sure winner for any holiday event. These recipe cards (or the little booklet of all three) are great give-aways for visitors or as a follow up after church events.

On this page is a picture of one of the Cheese Ball Recipe Cards (there are three of them in the set) and below  are pictures of the covers for a little set I made up with 4 cards per page. You can print the cover, the three recipes and then a little back sheet, staple them up in the top corner and you'd have a very nice gift to give away to guests who visit your church for holiday events. [Read more...]

HUGE Mother’s Day collection of materials

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This is an extraordinary collection of materials for you to use for your communication projects for Mother's Day. It consists of over 50 files of articles, postcards, all kinds of Mother's Day materials in PDF format, MS Publisher editable files, resizable jpgs, and MS Word files of text.

Below is a preview of all the files in this collection, following them is the link to download the files.

The zip and ZIP FILE (which your download to your hard drive, unzip and use) contains:

  • Articles for you to share with your communications team
  • Editable MS Publisher templates for you to modify and PDFs of finished publications for you to print out and use that include:
  • Invitation Postcards
  • Commemorative bookmarks
  • Apple Pie and Apple Crust recipe Cards
  • Come Back cards

NOTE: I realize the images below are really tiny....they are just to whet your appetite for the files. It is an extraordinary set of many useful materials.

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Come Back Strip

Download File for ALL the communications above

 

Click here to go to download the ZIP FILE that contains all the files above. (5-10 minutes or more if you have a slower connection--but it is really worth it!) Needless to say it is a LARGE file--66 MB and it will take several minutes to download. Once you download it, save it on to your hard drive, simply click to unzip and the files will be ready to open in the various programs.

Let me know if this was too large of a file for you to download. I put all the files together to make it easier, but if it would be easier to have smaller ZIP files let me know and I will break it apart for you. Email me at yvon@effectivechurchcom.com if you need me to do this. I want to serve you.