Effective Church Communications
Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission
Business and invitation cards can be used for so many things during the Christmas season: invitations, gift enclosures, links to website explanations about your church or Facebook or Twitter encouragements, cards to encourage people to come back to church, gift tags, or whatever else you can think of.
Below, first is a minute long video to preview the cards, then some cards including ready-to-print PDFs, and editable MS Publisher Templates and hi-res images of all the cards.
This page has links to explain the Christian faith, the person of Jesus, and that help seekers explore what it's all about. In our post-Christian world, we want to make sure that when we challenge people to make a decision to trust Jesus as Savior that they know what it means.
There are many other sites that are very useful in clarifying the Christian faith—check out recommendations from friends and your denominations. PLEASE add any you have found useful in the comments section below.
But whatever resources you use, please use links like this on your website, your bulletins, newsletters and on your outreach communications.
Even if they only make a brief connection with your church at a special event, give seekers opportunities to explore the Christian faith, Links like this could change their eternal destiny.
ALL of these benefits are usually NOT on either the home page of the website or in the newsletter updates:
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True story here about a lost opportunity to share Jesus:
In our area, one church frequently does a compassionate outreach at a Laundromat in an area of town where many homeless people do their laundry.
My husband, who is a bi-vocational pastor and who does handyman work to support our ministry habits, was on a job recently with a homeless young man. When he overheard him talking about "some guy who paid for my laundry," my husband asked him who did that and what they talked about.
The young man responded, "He didn't say anything—he and his wife just sat in a corner for two hours. I would have talked to him if he wanted—he put in ten bucks for me."
How sad! To pay for washer and dryer use for people who sometimes must choose between clean clothes and a decent meal is a fantastic way to demonstrate caring in the name of Jesus—IF people know you are doing it in the name of Jesus. If not, you may be considered nice, but perhaps a bit strange. [Read more...]
