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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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Not feeling appreciated in your church communications work? An identity check might help.

4 May, 2020 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Church Communicators are servantsDo you feel appreciated for all the hard work you do in creating church communications? I’ve been hearing from a lot of people recently, that with all the current increased demands on communicators, that many don’t feel appreciated. How about you?

Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and Welcome to The Devotions for Church Communicators Podcast!

As you’ll see today, how we react in times like this depends a lot on how we see our identity, our role as a church communicator and that’s what I want to talk about.

As always in this short podast I want to help you focus on God’s Word, the incredible calling you have to share God’s message of salvation, and to strengthen and encourage you.

This podcast is from me, Yvon Prehn and my ministry Effective Church Communications.

Following is the Podcast and below that the transcript of it.

Our podcast today is entitled: # 15 Not feeling appreciated in your church communications work? An identity check might help.

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Devotion #14: Do all you do with love or it’s just noise

26 April, 2020 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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So often we share news or invite people to something or teach or challenge them, but how do we show love?

Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and Welcome to The Devotions for Church Communicators Podcast!

As you’ll see today, without love in our communications we are just making noise and how to do that is what I’ll talk about today.

As always in this short I want to help you focus on God’s Word, the incredible calling you have to share God’s message of salvation, and to strengthen and encourage you.

This podcast is from me, Yvon Prehn and my ministry Effective Church Communications.

Below is the podcast and below it a transcript of it:

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Devotion #13: Prayers and encouragement—the Rainbow is coming!

19 April, 2020 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

The rainbow is coming, an encouraging podcast
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Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and Welcome to Devotions for Church Communicators Podcast!

Here is the podcast for today and below it the show notes and devotion.

How are you doing today? As I’m recording this, I’ve forgotten how many days I’ve been at home social distancing because of the current pandemic; it seems like a long time and I know it’s far from over. —

I’m fortunate in that I can continue my online ministry and as part of that, I wanted to restart my Monday Morning Devotions for Church Communicators. This one is going to be different than the usual 5-minute, standard format that I’ll start again next week, but for today I wanted to talk to you and pray for you.

I also wanted to share a devotion out of order because I was going over the materials out of my book on devotions, I found one that I think is especially appropriate for this time.

I wrote the devotion I’ll share many years ago. There are always trials and I know there will be many more before we make it safely home to heaven and this one seems especially appropriate because it is about Noah. The whole world changed with the flood and our world will be completely different when this pandemic is over. [Read more...]

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