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; we can help.

Graduates Resources, video preview, new and updated

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This may be your last chance to meaningfully connect with and influence the graduates at your church. Make the most of it with Resources from Effective Church Communications.

The video below is an overview of them and below the video links to specific resources mentioned in it.

Video on Graduation Preview

eBook of Graduate's ResourceseBook in the Effective Church Communications Library

This eBook is FREE and available on the ECC Library along with dozens of other eBooks and downloadable training videos. CLICK HERE to go to the ECC Library--please ignore anything I may not have changed that refers to a cost of the ECC Library.

Prayer for graduatesFree Templates for North Star for Graduates and Prayer for Graduates

CLICK HERE to go to this and other free templates for Graduates.

 

 

Printables for Graduates from the Bibleverse Shop

CLICK HERE to go to an incredible resource where you can download and print out many sizes and varieties of printables.

 

 

Bibleverse t-shirts and mug shopThe Bibleverse t-Shirts and More Shop

CLICK HERE to go to my shop of t-shirts and more for Bible-centered gifts that will encourage your graduates and help support the ministry of Effective Church Communications.

Scam Alert for Geek Squad Users (or even if you aren’t)a video for you

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Scam alert for Best Buys Geek Squad
A quick warning video about a scam alert and the power of typography (check it out to see what I mean!)

The Geek Squad from Best Buy can be a useful resource for churches and one I especially rely on when getting a new computer and switching over programs. [ PLEASE REMEMBER Effective Church Communications does not take any advertising or do affiliate deals—this is just my opinion of the Geek Squad or anything else I talk about].

And so I was understandably upset briefly when I got an email saying that my membership in it was due and had doubled in price. The cost of so many things has gone up considerably, so I was momentarily panicked but then I noticed (seriously) the sloppy typography of the Geek squad logo in the email and it just looked off. I compared it with the real one (on my real Geek Squad contract) and yes, it was fake.

I called the company and they said that unfortunately the web is being flooded with these at present. They said to ignore it and forward the email to abuse@bestbuy.com.

There are lots of detailed warnings online for it and you can CLICK HERE to go to the one from the FTC.

However, I did a little short video to warn you and others (Please pass it on), plus a tiny typography lesson from it—that I'm sure many of you caught the minute you saw the fake email.

FREE TEMPLATES: Church Business Card Size Fall Festival and other Fall Events

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Here are some FREE Templates in Canva you can use to print business cards to invite people to a variety of fall events. This is part of the launch of many new and revised templates in Canva that you can also download and use in MS Publisher. For a video on how to use these, CLICK HERE.

Following are the designs and below them the link to Canva where you can modify them. If you simply want to download and use jpg images of them, a link for that is below the images also.

To go to the Canva file, modify or download as is, CLICK on the link HERE

To download a zip file of jpg images of the cards that you can use in MS Publisher or web applications, CLICK HERE.

For a video of how to sign up for Canva and some initial tips on editing Templates and how to download and use them in MS Publisher, check out the video here:

Color and Design Trends for Fall 2019

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We all need inspiration and this week I got a catalog in the mail that greatly inspired me with new designs and color combinations. I decided the best way to tell you about it (it is about visual design after all) was to do a little video, which I did and which is below.

Below the video are links to the websites I reference in the video.

Enjoy!

Links to the sites shown in the video:

https://www.flor.com/

https://www.flor.com/area-rugs/show-all

https://glowsly.com/pantone-fall-2019-colors-trends/

https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/fashion-color-trend-report/fashion-color-trend-report-london-autumn-winter-2019-2020

https://www.thezoereport.com/p/pink-is-fall-2019s-most-unexpected-color-trend-were-very-here-for-it-15958267

Video: Where to find great papers for church communications projects

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In our e-book on 6 Tips to Choose Paper Wisely for Greatest Church Communication Impact, I recommended that you check out your local paper merchant for different kinds of paper that can greatly increase the quality of your church communications. I realized after I did the video that many of you may not have easy access to a local paper merchant and today there are great paper merchant resources online. So I did a some research and found several that I think you'll find useful.

The following video is a tour of 3 of them and shows what you can learn from these sites. An upgrade in paper can make a HUGE difference in the quality of your print communications and I strongly recommend that you consider one, especially when you are planning your holiday communications. Paper choice is one of the fun parts of church communications, so enjoy the video:

Note: For the e-book and PDF on 6 Tips to Choose Paper Wisely for Greatest Church Communication Impact, CLICK HERE.

Based on the wise feedback from one of our readers we corrected a mistake in referring to paper weight choice. We put 60# as a heavier weight than 24#, but 24# bond and 60# offset are the same weight (it has to do with how the parent sheet sizes are measured). To be correct, 28# or 32# are the heavier bond weights. We always appreciate corrections and suggestions!