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.

How to make Mom REALLY Happy!

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Mother's Day make Mom really happy cards
Though a fun way to share the message, it is a very serious one and here is a selection of cards to help share it. CLICK on the image above for a FREE PDF of this publication.

This communication is fun and always makes people smile, but it has a serious message because what each of the cards below illustrate in various ways is that, "What makes mom really happy....is for you to come back to church next Sunday!"

The cards below can be used as an insert for Mother's Day or they make great follow-up postcards sent out after Mother's Day to the visiting spouses and children who attended to make mom happy. Need some Connection Cards for Mother's Day to collect those names? A set of them is below the Make Mom Happy Cards.

The one to the left is a FREE PDF for everyone. CLICK HERE or on the image to download it. The other options and the zip files you can download with both ready-to-print PDFs and editable MS Publisher files are below.

Make the most of every opportunity on Mother's Day and you'll find it can be not only one of the highest outreach Sundays of the year, but one of the most successful outreach Sundays!

Make Mom really happy cards

Below is the link to a zip file where you can download the publications above in both ready-to-print PDFs and editable MS Publisher files.

Click the following link to download the zip file: Make Mom Happy MDay Come Back to Church

Here are some specialized Connection Cards for Mother's Day

Below is the link to a zip file where you can download the publications above in both ready-to-print PDFs and editable MS Publisher files.

Click the following link to download the zip file: MDay Connection Cards  and Mothers Day Invitations Landscape 1

Connection Cards for Christmas, to make sure your guests return to church, designs with spot color

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FREE Christmas Connection Card
Click on this image to download the FREE PDF file.

ed. note: some of these feature spot color printing, perfect if you have a digital duplicator.

After all your hard work to get people to come to your Christmas events, you want to make sure you make a connection with them so that they will return to your church after the holidays. To do that you need to capture names and contact information.

These Connection Cards for Christmas are a simple-to-create, but very useful tool. The one to the left is free for everyone, just click  the image to download the PDF, print, and use.

At the end of this article is a link to a ZIP FILE that has ready-to-print PDFs of all the images below, including two versions that can be printed with color separations if you have a digital duplicator. [Read more...]

2016 Connection Cards for your Christmas events!

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FREE Christmas Connection Card
Connection and Feedback Cards are one of the most important publications you can create for the Christmas season because it gives you a way to reach out to people who visit at that time. CLICK on this image to download your free card.

One of the most important things to do at your Christmas events if you want them to be a lasting success is to connect with the people who attend and have a way to reach them in the future. One of the best ways to do this is through Connection Cards and we have a NEW set of them for you.

You can also call your cards "Feedback Cards" as this might be a more contemporary term if you are reaching out to unchurched people.

There is a free PDF of one for everyone (the image to the left) and then below we have a set of them if you'd like more options. CLICK HERE or on the image to download the FREE card.

In addition to the PDF version of all the ones illustrated below you will also get the editable MS Publisher file and jpeg images of them.

Here are the designs included:

To download your copies

 

Click on the link that follows to download the 2016 Connection Cards ZIP file: 2016-connection-cards

 

Christian Post interviews Yvon Prehn about How to get people to come back to church after Christmas and Easter

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How to get people back to church
Lots of people attend church for holiday events--here is advice to get them to come back on a continuing basis.

How to get the people who come to church on Christmas and Easter to return and to begin to attend on a regular basis is one of the biggest challenges for churches. The holidays offer great opportunities for people visit the church, but attending church twice a year seldom results in any significant spiritual decision or life-change.

For ideas on how to change that with suggestions from Ed Setzer of LifeWay and Yvon Prehn of Effective Church Communications, check out this article:

How to Keep the 'Chreasters' Coming: Experts Say Preparedness and Follow-Up Are Key

Read the full article at http://www.christianpost.com/news/how-to-keep-the-chreasters-coming-experts-say-preparedness-and-follow-up-are-key-92773/#y7QhYTt0IoGqsdbA.99