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Summer seasonal PR for 4th of July and Summer Events

16 June, 2021 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

This entry has a number of materials that are useful for connecting with people for special summer events.

One is a bulletin insert that takes the line from the song, "America, America, God shed his grace on thee," and turns the word GRACE into a prayer. It is useful for our American audience, but we haven't forgotten the members and visitors to this site who do not live in America.

In addition is a Postcard for summer outreach and a fantastic brisket recipe. The Summer outreach postcard will work for any summer event (personalize with your own details on the back); the Brisket recipe is a great handout or give-away card for any time of the year.

This entry also contains a download link for a zip file of the jpg images and ready-to-print PDFs for all three of the publications illustrated below. It also contains editable MS Publisher files for both the Summer postcard and the Brisket Recipe. It does not have an editable MS Publisher file for the 4th of July insert because I did not have permission to do that with the artwork I used.

You can download just the PDF of the 4th of July Bulletin insert, by clicking here or on the flyer image.

Below the images is the link to the ZIP file of all the publications:

Here are the images in the file:

To download the ZIP file that contains all the jpgs, PDFs, and MS Publisher Files, click on the link below.

Click here to download the ZIP file. Save it to your hard drive and click to open it and use the files.

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Make STRATEGIC use of Father’s Day to grow your church–by targeting YOUNGER Dads

13 June, 2021 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Reach out to young dads at Father's Day — Fathers Day is a great time to reach out to young dads at your church.

Many churches today have an ideal church member they want to recruit—the younger male, the dad with a young family, and Father's Day is a great time to do a focused outreach to them.

Make sure men are visible at your church

Men need to be greeters, the ones who do announcements, are in the children's ministry when kids are dropped off, and other visual actions at the church. This isn't being sexist--men need to see that men are doing things at the church.

Most likely they are involved in all these areas, but you need to make sure they are front and center on this day.

Invite men back for a service project

Many studies show that younger men are part of a generation that believes in volunteering, in giving back. Asking this group to be part of service projects is a great way to involve them with the men of the church. Here are some ideas: [Read more...]

Bulletin inserts or social media content for Father’s Day; poetry, challenges, encouragements

12 June, 2021 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Dads come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Here is a selection of bulletin inserts that celebrates many of them.

Dad's come in all shapes, sizes, and colors and the selection of Bulletin Inserts here reflects that. The overall theme of the insert is general thankfulness for Fathers and you can put any message, event, challenge, whatever you'd like on the other side.

Below is a gallery of the inserts and below that a ZIP file that contains a ready-to-print PDF, plus editable MS Publisher files of all the inserts.

The content or the entire image can be used in social media in any way you'd like also.

Here is the Gallery of images of the inserts: