Effective Church Communications

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.

FREE Mother’s Day Social Media, Background, and MS Publisher Templates

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I created a selection of FREE Background and then Social Media and MS Publisher templates for you for last-minute Mother’s Day invitations and here the links to the posts and previews of each of them. Many of these can also be useful anytime for Women's Ministry Communications.

Mother’s Day backgrounds that you can also use in any Women’s Ministry Communications

Canva and Template Link: https://wp.me/pDky9-9KM
YouTube video preview link: https://youtu.be/H6KzVntZMrI

Free Social Media and MS Publisher Invitations, set #1

Canva and Template Link: https://wp.me/pDky9-9JP

YoutTube Preview Link: https://youtu.be/B2uScuu5Vfg

Free Social Media and MS Publisher Invitations, set #2

Canva and Template Link: https://wp.me/pDky9-9K2
YouTube Preview Link: https://youtu.be/kYC-rXEDhD8

FREE Mother’s Day and Women’s Ministry Backgrounds, AI created

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Free editable Canva background images for Mother's Day or other times.
Free editable Canva background images for Mother's Day or other times.

The following images were created with Canva's AI image creation program. This is a small portion of the many that were not worth keeping but I liked these, some quite a lot, and wanted to share them with you. You may use them however you want and no attribution is needed. I used some of them on my free social media images set for Mother's Day.

Click the Canva link below the images to go to the files and modify them or use them to create your own communications for Mother's Day or any other event that flowers would feature well in.

CANVA AI created background Mother’s Day images, mostly flowers

Click on the image below to go to Canva and use the images.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFg5Nw0h24/MpQtf0BgjxpeCDz1M22E-A/edit?utm_content=DAFg5Nw0h24&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

 

 

FREE Facebook Size Valentines Day Social Media with Verses about God’s Love

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Valentines Day Facebook images
One example of a set of Valentine's Day images, Facebook-size, that you can use to share God's Love.

Valentine's Day is a wonderful time to share God's love with people and here is a set of Facebook-size, social media images you can use to do that.

You can use the files in two ways and the links to each option are below the images. Either you can download a ZIP FILE of the images in jpg format or you can click on the Canva Link if you want to link to them in Canva and perhaps modify them for however you want to use them.

These were created using the A.I. "text to image" command in Canva. CLICK HERE to go to a video where I demonstrate how I created the backgrounds.

CLICK the following link to download the ZIP file of the images: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Facebook-size-Valentines-Day-Background-with-Verses.zip

CLICK the following link to go to the CANVA file:  https://www.canva.com/design/DAFY1KLpCQI/Z0TNsDdQQW-pFWHMWAzXug/edit?utm_content=DAFY1KLpCQI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

 

We are at the half-way point with Lent and here are 40 challenging images for you to use however you want

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Lenten Set of images from Effective Church Communications
This is the first of 40 images for you to download and use during Lent or anytime to help people grow in their walk with Jesus.

Lent isn't just for Lent. What I mean by that is Lent is a specific time when we can focus on denying ourselves so we can live more fully for God.

It is about so much more than giving up chocolate or social media or whatever other external thing we choose during this time. At its best, Lent is a time for quiet self-evaluation so we can grow more deeply to become who God wants us to be.

In that self-evaluation, it's time to add virtues, practices to our lives that will help us become more like Jesus.

What I have for you to inspire you during Lent

To guide you through Lent, I created a set of 40 inspirational images and I then wrote a brief challenge or thought-provoking idea to go with them.

I put the challenges into a free downloadable journal for you, plus they are on daily Instagrams, and in my favorite form, on a daily short YouTube video (less than a minute), where I read them to you along with a challenge and prayer. Please check that out--CLICK HERE to go to the channel. [Read more...]

Free Christmas graphics inspired by Christmas Carols, formatted for Instagram and Postcards

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Free Christmas Card Social media images based on Christmas Carols
Christmas carols are inspirational for more than singing. They can also inspire our Christmas communications.

Christmas carols are not only wonderful to sing this time of year, but many of the lines in them are both inspiring and encouraging to our faith.

My pastor recently preached a sermon challenging up as to whether we had room in our lives for Jesus. In addition to finding it personally motivating, I also realized it would make a great theme for a Christmas graphic, Instagram image, and postcard.

As is usual with these things, one thing led to another, and I created an entire set of images that you can use for whatever you want, plus they are formatted for Instagram and postcards. In addition, I did a layout of the postcards in MS Publisher and created ready-to-print PDFs that you can print off and use.

Below are pictures of the images and below the images are links to download a ZIP file that has them in various formats.

If you would like to create your own Christmas communications using Christmas Carols

Little Christmas angel
This is another one of the images in the Christmas set below.

All of the wording for the images below came from Christmas carols that are now in the Public Domain and that you can quote freely. Following is the link to a website that has a useful list of Christmas carols, both those that are in the Public Domain and those that are still under copyright protection:

https://www.easysonglicensing.com/pages/help/articles/copyright-law/christmas-songs-in-the-public-domain.aspx

Note: if a song you want isn't on the list above, simply google it, as I had to do for one I wanted.

After you know which ones are free to use, it is then helpful to have the words printed out. Here is a site that has that for you:

http://ldsguy.tripod.com/Christmas.carols.html [Read more...]