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 use Mother’s Day to Grow your church, evangelize, and disciple

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Mother's Day gets the third highest attendance at church right behind Christmas and Easter. What churches often forget is that the large increase in people does not come from more Mothers attending--they are there every week! It comes from the unchurched children and spouses who show up to make mom happy on her special day.

Churches that recognize this and use church communications in a way that makes the most of it can make it a day truly worth celebrating for Mom's because nothing is more wonderful to a Mother than for her child to come to know Jesus.

Our Church Communications Training School has a short video course: How to use Mother's Day to Grow Your Church, Evangelize, and Disciple—and it will totally change how you approach Mother's Day!

Below are the sets of communication Templates shown in the video with preview images. Click on the title to go to the set you want.

    Click on any image to enlarge and see more detailed previews. Click on the link below the images to download the Templates to your computer.

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    Free Church Bunny Easter Invitation to encourage children to be inviters

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    Easter Church Bunny Invitation for kids to invite friends for Easter
    An invitation like this can encourage kids to invite their friends for Easter.

    Not only is Easter a wonderful time to host events for children, but it's a great time to train children to invite their friends to church. Seasonal celebrations are not only a time where you can grow your church in numbers, but you can also intentionally use it as a time to grow your people in discipleship when you provide tools for them to invite their friends.

    In addition to the invitations, you can encourage them to pray for unchurched friends, offer to pick them up for Easter events, and invite them back in the following weeks. Not only adults, but children can be part of this and you can work on instilling life-long habits in them of inviting, praying for, and involving friends in church.

    To help you do that, here is a FREE Church Bunny Easter invitation. If you click on it, you not only get the ready-to-print PDF as we've done with FREE church communications in the past, but you get a ZIP file that has the PDF and the editable MS Publisher file. CLICK HERE or on the image to go to it.

    More choices available for the children at your church

    In addition to the FREE Church Bunny Invitation above, there are additional free options below. To see a larger version of the invitation, click on any of them and you'll see an enlarged slide show.

    Click on the link following to download the Church Bunny Easter Invitations above: Church Bunny Invitations

    FREE Easter Jelly Bean Prayer for Children’s Ministry

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    Jelly bean prayer

    By using the colors of Jelly Beans, this prayer is a visual way to share the gospel message to children—and to the adults with the children—sometimes candy isn't nearly as intimidating as a sermon.

    It is useful at Easter to enclose in goodie bags, to use as an invitation, use as an illustration during a lesson or children's sermon.

    The one to the right is an easy download for everyone, just CLICK HERE or on the image to download a ready-to-print PDF of it. Additional designs are illustrated below.

    Additional Jelly Bean Prayer Designs

    To see the images larger, click on the first one and a slide show will come up.

    To download the Jelly Bean Prayer file, click the following link: Jelly Bean Prayer

    At the end of this article is the text for the Jelly Bean Prayer that you can use to create materials for Easter for Children. [Read more...]

    How to pass on sensitive ministry information for domestic abuse, drug abuse, and pornography addition help

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    Church Ministry Business Cards
    A tastefully done business card can let people know about ministries that can help them in challenging life situations.

    Our world hurts. People hurt each other and they hurt themselves.

    The good news of the gospel is there is healing for every hurt available in Jesus and given out by his people, the church.

    The challenge is how to connect the hurts and the help.

    One of the most effective, but seldom used ways is with church and ministry business cards.

    Here is how they can work

    1. On this site is a selection of FREE cards. Below are a few of them, at the end of the article all the ones available to download.
    2. Download the cards and then on the back put the resources available to help that your church has or that are available in your area.
    3. Give out the cards to people in your church to share as needed.
    4. BUT ALSO--what many churches have done is to make up the cards and then place them in restrooms at church, preferably INSIDE the stalls. When you do this, a person can pick up this small card (much better than a big brochure) and privately make use of the information on it. Churches that have done this have told me, "we replace the cards frequently."

    Pray for the people who need the resources

    You never know who might pick up a card. Perhaps someone traveling, someone visiting your church, perhaps a member living in pain or shame.

    But the Lord knows and we can ask he direct people to the resources they need and that they will find healing and help.

    Below are pictures of all the cards in this set. These cards and dozens more cards for you to invite people to church and other ministries HERE.