Effective Church Communications
Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission
After sending out the Hark the Herald Angels gospel presentation, I just got this example of how one of the ECC Members used it and wanted to share it.
It is a wonderful example of how to put together a very clear and complete presentation of how to come to know Jesus personally at Christmas. Following is a picture of the bulletin--click on the images to download the PDF.
For the original file with the Hark the Herald Angels Sing files, CLICK HERE.
Back to School was always a wonderful time of year for me, but for many kids, it can be a time of sadness if they don't have what they need. This is a simple, but powerful ministry your church can do. Below is the introduction to the church bulletins:
Back-to-School Backpack
Ministry
—an opportunity to bring joy to needy kidsSchool is about to start and it’s a time of excitement, fun, and discovery for many children. But for some children, it means showing up at school without crayons or pencils, notebooks or glue, without the supplies they need. Sadly today, many parents can’t pay for them and schools are unable to provide them.
But the body of Christ can. Our church has a ministry where we provide filled backpacks to little kids who need them.
We have four ways you can help:
......and the inserts go on to give specific advice
Last year's bulletin inserts are free CLICK HERE to go to them.
For a personal article on the meaning of this ministry to me, CLICK HERE.
The samples on this page are new versions of the Bulletin Inserts. At the bottom of this page is a link to a ZIP FILE.
The ZIP FILE contains:
Below is the Free ZIP FILE --simply click on it, save on your hard drive, click to open and use as you will!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE ZIP FILE
Last year's bulletin inserts are free CLICK HERE to go to them.
For a personal article on the meaning of this ministry to me, CLICK HERE.
For the bulletin inserts in the video on Sales Tips for Children's Shoe Box, CLICK HERE.
What is the best communication channel for your church to reach people today? Do you put everything, including your church bulletin, on your website and quit? Or is social media the answer to all your needs? Is print outdated or is it essential? Given that churches have limited time, money, and resources, how can we know we are using all of them in the best ways possible?
This webinar may surprise you with some of the proposed answers, especially with what it has to say about the continuing importance of a printed church bulletin. The webinar would be an excellent one to show during a staff meeting and to discuss following the viewing.
Below the video is a PDF of handouts for the webinar and these are for Effective Church Communication Members only. For ECC Members there is also a link to the ebook: Are Written Bulletins Still Needed in the Church?
Here are the handouts that go with the video. Print them up ahead of time, so people can take notes.
Just click on the image and the PDF will open on your screen for you to print.
The ebook, Are written bulletins still needed in the church?, is also free for Effective Church Communication Members. CLICK HERE to go to it.
This church bulletin sample is truly an example of genius in layout and design. I'm not using that description because of its use of fancy graphics, but because it packed in essential communication components, including an order of service, place for sermon notes, announcements, a gospel presentation, and a weekly schedule that is ready-to-post on the refrigerator, all the parts that a church needs for its various audiences all into ONE piece of 11 x 17 paper.
It is a few years old and you will want to modify for your church, but the idea, the layout and the essential communications it packs into one piece of paper are timeless.
This was sent in as part of our Great Idea Swap, where church communicators share with church communicators.
Below are two images of the bulletin for everyone to view.
What would you say is the answer to the challenge of getting unchurched visitors to come to your Christmas events? Is it to purchase a national outreach campaign of postcards? Is it to spend lots of money on advertisements in the local newspaper? Is it to create colorful website banners for the holidays?
Though all of those methods may bring in a few visitors, the most effective way to get visitors to attend hasn’t changed from the days when Jesus walked on this earth—it is a friend telling a friend:
The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus. (Jn. 1:41-42).
Below is a Bulletin insert for everyone and following that is a selection of materials for ECC Members. Click here for information about ECC Membership.
Nothing works better than a personal invitation, but for that to take place, your people have to be motivated to invite their friends to the events your church is hosting this Christmas season. We’d like to think that people will naturally want to invite their friends, but with all the demands of the holidays, it’s easy to forget that an invitation to a church event is not just one more option on the calendar.
If your church event is (and I am assuming it is) more than simply an entertaining Christmas tradition and is one that clearly communicates the gospel, you need to remind your people that inviting friends to your events could literally change their eternity. In an upbeat way, the bulletin insert here will remind them of this truth and encourage them to invite their friends.
This PDF is a free download for everyone. Click here or on the image to download it.
If you are an Effective Church Communication Member, by clicking the link below the following description, you can download a ZIP file that has:
***Another design of the Bulletin Insert.
***PDFs of both designs, ready to print.
***MS Publisher files of this design so you can modify them it you want to. I did not include a file of the clip art one that is editable because when I checked again, I was not sure of the source of the clipart. But this template could be modified with clipart if you chose to use it.
***MS Word file of the text of the bulletin insert with permission to use it in any publication or website use you’d like.
***PNG-image files of each of the flyers for you to use in bulletins, websites, handouts, PowerPoint presentations where you encourage your people.
Becoming and ECC Member will save you hours work because you don’t have to create all of these items—simply download, modify and use! Lots more are coming for the Christmas season and all through the year, so join now so you don’t miss out!
For more information on how to become an ECC Member, Click here.
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Click here to download the ZIP file that contains all of the materials above. Save it to your desktop and then just click to open and use all the materials.
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