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; Effective Church Communications can help.

Digital Evangelism Month #2: Church Communications–FREE How-to Books

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In celebration of Digital Evangelism Month, Effective Church Communication is making the following books free for the month of May.

The first one is a link to our new digital resource on Smashwords. In the coming weeks I'll be doing a detailed analysis and how-to of the site. I'm still testing a number of things on it, (formating is a challenge and they take a long time to get materials posted and other concerns) but my initial analysis is that it can be an incredible resource for churches and individual believers to share their stories and teachings.

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This book on Smashwords is a special edition of my best-selling Connection Cards, connect with visitors, grow your church, pastor your people, little cards, big results.

I put this book on Smashwords because you can download it in almost every imaginable ebook format: for Kindle, phones, PDF, HTML, all kinds of e-readers.

This is a book every church needs to read (and it's FREE!) as many have told me it will totally change how you make a significant connection with visitors. If you want to explore my Smashwords site (I will probably have more books on it by the time you view this), just CLICK HERE.

 

 

Books to help you create Effective Church Communications

Following that are some of my ebooks that have proved useful to church communicators--they illustrate a variety of skills and topics. You have permission to make digital copies of any of these materials and pass them on to other church communicators.

Why MS Publisher is recommended for Church Com teams9 Reasons Why MS Publisher is a great programs for churches to use

When I first encountered MS Publisher in the early days of creating communications with the computer, I would have never imaged I’d be recommending it as the program of choice for churches.

But times changes--in  addition, I found the more I worked with it, I realized it was an honestly fun program to use with flexibility to create not only print publications, but graphics and web designs easily. It has also remained very inexpensive (all the non-profits pricing resources are in this book) for churches to buy for an entire team.

In interactions with other church communicators, I’ve found that though many use MS Publisher (more than any other program as my surveys show), at the same time some still primarily use MS Word because they don’t realize how much more Publisher can do and some don’t use Publisher because they think it isn’t “professional” enough. I hope this brief publication will change both views. In addition for anyone who does communications in your church or oversees those who do, I urge you to consider MS Publisher, especially if you haven’t looked at it in some time.

This book is extensively illustrated for each point. CLICK HERE or on the image to download it.

Big is Busted COVERPlanning book: big is busted, try tiny

This Special Edition of our book on Planning is part of our overall materials on planning. So often we tend to think that we have to do big, extravagant things to impress people and to get them to come to our church.

Sometimes big and impressive does work, but quite often it is the little things that really get people to come to your church.

The challenge is—which way of doing communications is the most successful? This book will help you figure that out and then implement successful strategies in your church.

CLICK HERE or on the image to download it.

 

 

If these materials have been useful to you, please consider a membership in Effective Church Communications.

Each week new resources, including articles, ebooks, training webinars, templates for church communications and ready-to-print PDFs for seasonal church events and outreach. This is training for people who do church communications, particularly for small to medium-size churches where the person responsible for communications has little-to-no previous training in design or communication creation. Membership starts at only $9.99 a month or $99 a year for individuals or small churches.

CLICK HERE for more information or you can email yvon@effectivechurchcom.com if you have questions.

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What Church Secretaries wish their pastors knew about church communications

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I created this video not only because I talk to, email and communicate with many church secretaries, administrative assistants, and church office professionals, but also I have done the secretarial and communications work in various amounts,  for many years for my husband who is a bi-vocational pastor. This is a job with tremendous responsibilities and needs if you are going to do it well. However, often the church office is often the last place to get the resources they need.

Please, if you are in a leadership position, take a few minutes and watch this with your church secretary. and pray about all you can do to build up and encourage each other.

One more idea for leaders—take a few minutes to share with your partners in ministry (secretaries and staff) what you wish they knew.

Then take time to pray together  about all you can do to build up and encourage each other.

This video is free, but the handouts are only available to ECC Members. Not only handouts, but many, many templates, ebooks and other resources are available to ECC MEMBERS. To find out more and to join, CLICK HERE.

The video and PDF handouts follow.

Handouts that go with the video above:

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The PDF handouts, these go with the video above, just click on the image to download them.

Church Secretary PDF HANDOUTS for Video

How to create and use a church communication survey, a Webinar On-demand

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Because we all tend to communicate in ways that are most comfortable to us and because, as church leaders, we make decisions for people, in this time of changing communications, we may be totally missing out on what the types of communications our audience needs for them to hear the gospel message or our challenges to discipleship growth.

How do your various audiences take in your messages? What communication channels do they access the most?

Most of us if we are honest really don't know. This is where a survey can be extremely helpful. This webinar/video will show you how to do one for your church.

One  bit of advice--before you do the survey, pray that the Lord will make your heart open to make changes whatever the results might be. Nothing hurts your credibility more than asking people for their opinion and then ignoring it totally when they give it to you.

The PDF that goes along with the training video is below the video.

This webinar is for ECC Members only. For information on how to join, CLICK HERE

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Video Survey Handouts

9 Reasons why MS Publisher is a great program for churches to use for print and graphic creation

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Why MS Publisher is recommended for Church Com teams
MS Publisher is a fantastic program to create not only publications, but graphics for print and web. At the end of this article, you can download this FREE PDF.

When I first encountered MS Publisher in the early days of creating communications with the computer, I would have never imaged I’d be recommending it as the program of choice for churches—and not only so you can create complex print layouts, but also graphics for print and the web.

At that time, if you wanted to create professional-looking publications, you chose Aldus Pagemaker.  Pagemaker gave you layout options and type-setting control, necessary for credible communications for churches, while Publisher’s main claim to fame was the ability to quickly create a moderately tacky-looking postcard quickly. [Read more...]