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.

More than prayers, an idea to help hurricane victims

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Help church communicators.
No matter where you are you can reach out and help church communicators, here's how.

I know all of us are praying for the victims of the hurricanes and I know we will continue to do that through the long recovery process. In addition to that, I recently remembered a very practical idea church communicators did after Katrina.

They helped do the church communications for churches who had lost their offices or the ability to create communications.

A church at a remote location would create the bulletin, flyer, newsletter, postcard, whatever was needed and then would send it to wherever the church wanted it printed.

This plan was organized in a number of ways, either informally through social media or in a more structured way through their denominations.

If you have other ideas or are trying  this, let us know through the comment section here.

But most of all continue to pray.

Corrected Civility Code available for you….my bad

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In a very courteous email (really, the writer was so kind) an ECC Member emailed me to let me know I'd left a word out of the Civility Code I shared. It is in the last line, I left out the word "to" in the phrase, "to walk worthy."

I truly do appreciate it when someone catches my mistakes.

I corrected the sheet and the zip file containing the new one is available by clicking here: Civility Code

Thank you again Diane, and may we all truly "walk worthy" as we serve our Lord in Church Communications.

Church Communication Teams, how to successfully combine staff and volunteers

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Work Effectively as a Church Communication Team
This article will help you work effective with your church communication team of staff and volunteers. CLICK on the image to download it.

How do you work together as a communication team when it is a combination of staff and volunteers who work from a variety of locations? I recently did an article for Ministry Tech Magazine where I summarized many useful insights on this that I've collected over the years. They liked it so much, they made it their featured story for this issue.

I LOVE how they lay out the stories and since they distribute them in free PDF format, I'd like to pass on the article to you.

I'm doing this so you can print it out and share it with your staff and volunteers. You might first want to talk about it with your staff and come up with guidelines based on it.

We all have more than we have time to do in communicating the messages of the Kingdom of God, but putting together a team with clear guidelines and procedures, not only makes it easier for each member, but more people get to hear about Jesus and grow and mature as disciples.

Click HERE or on the image to download the PDF.

My Poppo died and I wanted to share his obituary with you

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Poppo was my adopted grand-father, actually my sister's father-in law, and he went to be with Jesus a little over a week ago. He was special to me in many ways, but that's not why I'm sharing his obituary with you. I'm sharing it because it is a wonderful example of the power of witness the final words about one's life can be.

I'm at that age, when I read obituaries in a new way and as I do, many of them leave me profoundly sad. The person may have lived a "good" life from an earthly viewpoint, they may have been successful in earthly terms, traveled, and left a loving family, but often there is nothing about the care of their soul. Even some that seem to have known in the Lord in this life say little other than their memorial service will be at a church. What a lost opportunity!

Many people read obituaries for many reasons--so make the most of them to share the joy of our salvation in Jesus. This is a time when we can proclaim the reality of the resurrection and excitement of eternal life. As church communicators, make the most of every opportunity to share your faith with your communication skills.

Following is how my brother-in-law, Jim Gloyd, Poppo's son shared Poppo's life and his faith in Jesus:

Glenn “Poppo” Gloyd, born, 2-25-25, HOME, Beyond the Sunset 4-21-17:

Poppo as a 5-year-old boy, a picture from his book, Soul of a Hillbilly.

Poppo is Home! “Now I lay me down to sleep…” said the old prayer, and that is exactly what happened, as GP took his last earthly breath while sleeping, and slipped into the arms of his Savior Jesus, healed, whole and rarin’ to go in this New Adventure of Forever! He loved being a rock hound, and one of his close friends just said that The Lord better keep an eye on him, or the 12 Foundations of the Heavenly City will be in peril! Truly part of that Greatest Generation, born just after the first World War, then through the Great Depression, then World War ll, where he landed at Normandy on D Day, marched into St. Lo, and stepped on a land mine. We would still pull shrapnel out occasionally. He gave his all, and wore his Army hat proudly wherever he went!

Born and raised in Branson, Missouri, he truly had the “Soul of a Hillbilly,” even writing a great little book of his life called…The Soul of a Hillbilly. He loved his family, and while life on the farm was hard, he had some great stories that he loved to share with all, about his days working the farm, learning to grow stuff… still grew the best tomatoes, onions… the watermelon patch, crossing the frozen White River in the winter, which was forbidden, and could get a boxin’ of the ears from his Mom!... and many more! He promised that he would always take care of his family, and he did, not only materially, but leaving a legacy of a generous, Godly man, doing the best he could, and always stayed true to his word. [Read more...]