Effective Church Communications

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators. 

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators.
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Why church business cards still work in the digital age, and the ministry benefit of anonymous cards

25 September, 2018 By Yvon Prehn 2 Comments

Church Business Invitation Cards
Church Business and Ministry Invitation Cards can be powerful tools for outreach.

The values of business cards for churches and ministries is simply a reflection of their value in the world outside the church. Contrary to the opinions of some, social media and exchanging information via cell phone are not the most effective ways to reach out or connect.

This isn't simply my opinion, though I did feel a measure of irritation when I asked a potential business resource for their contact information and had to wait while she rummaged through a huge purse, found her phone and tapped her information to me.

Later, I couldn't find it as my recent calls had several numbers I didn't recognize and no idea which one was from her. How much easier it would have been to connect if she had given me a business card.

My bad attitude aside, following are excerpts from business sources of the continuing value of business cards. To make it relate to your work in the church I have some comments interspersed in the articles surrounded by [brackets like this] and I have some concluding comments at the end of the excerpts, plus links to FREE TEMPLATES for you to modify for your own church and ministry invitation cards.

Business cards put a face to business….business cards never have downtime, are always accessible, never have dead zones or Internet outages

Business cards still matter because our memory is bad, [I took out a harsher word] How many times have you met someone, spent most of the conversation thinking of what to say so you don't sound stupid, then promptly forget their name when it's all over?......A business card is a road map to opportunity [because it helps you remember what you weren't listening to because you were thinking about yourself. We do this in the best of situations.]

Shaun Caldwell explains on his LinkedIn blog that cards have certain perks:

Business cards never have downtime. They're always accessible, and never have dead zones or Internet outages. Your business card can be viewed no matter where you are located, and even times when cell phones and other devices must be turned off, such as on an airplane ride or in a hospital. Your business card is always working for you.

Writer Sarah Brooks at Successful Blog explains that it gives them something physical to refer to later should they decide they want your product or service:

Business cards put a face to a business – When meeting someone new, handing them your business card (preferably with your photo on it) will help keep your business in the back of their minds. Though they may not need your product or services today, there may come a time when they do, and hopefully they will be able to pull out your business card and call versus trying to remember your company name and searching.

From: https://lifehacker.com/why-business-cards-still-matter-and-how-to-effectively-1651222760

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VIDEO: How to modify the FREE Templates for Church Business and Ministry Invitation Cards

25 September, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

We have many Free Church Business and Ministry Invitation Cards Templates (CLICK HERE to go to them) and you can edit and modify the cards for your church.

I realized that though what I just said is so easy to say, many people may not know what that means, so I created the video below to briefly show you. Many of the templates available online on other sites are in Photoshop, but many churches don't have Photoshop, nor do they want to get it and learn to use it. Our templates are all in MS Publisher and VERY EASY to modify. Many you don't even have to modify at all, you can simply print off the PDF and then put your own information on the back.

For more on Church and Ministry Business Cards

Templates: https://wp.me/PDky9-7TT

Podcast: ECC Podcast: Church and Ministry Business and Invitation Cards: https://wp.me/pDky9-8df

Video: How to modify the FREE Templates for Church Business and Ministry Invitation Cards: https://wp.me/pDky9-8ea

Article: Why church business cards still work in the digital age, and bonus content on anonymous cards: https://wp.me/pDky9-8dp

Class on Church Business and Ministry Invitation Cards: https://church-communications-training.teachable.com/p/church-and-ministry-business-and-invitation-cards 

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Reorganization of FREE Templates, to help you find them easier

14 May, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

As the number of templates grows on this site, to make it easier to find what you want, we created this short video to help:

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Church Invitation Cards, business cards with an eternity-altering purpose

13 May, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Free church invitation.
Make up cards like this for your church members to invite others to church. Links to a FREE copy of this one and others is at the end of the article.

How do you get unchurched people into your church?

Despite all the high-tech and expensive advertising methods available today, one method remains the most effective way to get new people to come to your and that is a personal invitation. Your members inviting their friends to church beats any advertising campaign at any cost.

While it is sometimes sadly true that once someone becomes converted, they soon have few friends who are not believers, no one totally withdraws from the world. Most people still work at secular jobs. Everyone has many contacts a week with people in the business community: the waitress or waiter at the coffee shop, the Starbucks employees, the clerks at various stores, the person standing next to them in lines at the grocery store, airports, or the driver’s license bureau, the person sitting next to them on the bus or subway. [Read more...]

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Church Business/Invitation Cards to use anytime

11 May, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Invitation cards are an invaluable outreach ministry tool to help your people's invitations actually get people to church.
Invitation cards are an invaluable outreach ministry tool to help your people's invitations actually get people to church.

One of the most effective ways to ask people to come to church is to pair your verbal invitation with a printed invitation card. Since every member of the church is responsible to do their part to fully fulfill the Great Commission, be sure you always have cards like these available for your congregation.

Invitation cards are essential because we can't assume today, in our post-Christian world, that when you invite someone to church that they know anything about it, where it is, or when it meets. A person may respond very favorably to your invitation, but they may get up on Sunday morning and think: "Now where is that church? And what time does it start? Do they have a place for my kids?"

A printed invitation card can answer all those questions

It can also direct them to your online information (website and social media) that will make certain they actually connect with the church. Without this information, chances are the person will think something like: "I don't want to go at the wrong time and I can't even remember the location. . . . . I hope I run in to that nice person again."

Invitation cards are a tool that take hopeful invitations and wishful thinking to a tangible connection with your church. Below is a set you can download and change on the back with contact information for your church. The invitations are generic and can be used any time. The link to download them is at the end of the article. They are part of a ZIP file that has:

**Ready-to-print PDFs of all the cards
**Editable MS Publisher templates
**JPG images of the cards


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