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Recipe for Evie’s Barbequed Brisket

26 May, 2010 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

As promised for everyone who signed up for the webinar on summer events, here is the wonderful brisket recipe.

Just click on the image to download a PDF and enjoy!BBQ recipe card

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You can do all you need to do in church communications, for your church and by your people

20 May, 2010 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

In Perelandra, the science fiction fantasy by C. S. Lewis, the primal battle between good and evil on a newly created world is fought by an unassuming scholar, thrust unwillingly into individual combat with personified evil. In the moments before their last, physical wrestling, his mind is wrestling with these thoughts:

The impudence, the unfairness, the absurdity of it! . . . What was the sense of so arranging things that anything really important should finally and absolutely depend on such a man of straw as himself?

At that moment, far away on Earth, as he now could not help remembering, men were at war, and. . .freckled corporals who had lately begun to shave, stood in horrible gaps or crawled forward in deadly darkness, awaking, like him, to the preposterous truth that all really depended on their actions. . . [and in years past] Constantine settled in his mind whether he would or would not embrace the new religion, and Eve herself stood looking upon the forbidden fruit and the Heaven of Heavens waited for her decision.

He writhed and ground his teeth, but could not help seeing. Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

from Perelandra, by C. S. Lewis
—when Ransom realizes his personal responsibility to fight evil personified

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made.

Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

You are responsible for the effectiveness of your church communications, as this challenging quote from C. S. Lewis reminds us. Your church communications are effective if they make a significant contribution to, either through your personal outreach, individual ministries, or your church as a whole, people are coming to know Jesus as Savior and growing to maturity in their Christian lives.

Effective church communications can change the eternal destiny of individual people, enrich the lives of families and communities, and inspire compassion and service to a world desperately in need of sacrificial kindness.

You, as a church communicator have an immensely important calling. [Read more...]

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Church Survey Creation PowerPoint and MS Publisher Editable Files

5 May, 2010 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Following the webinar on: How to Create and use a church communication survey, a number of you asked for the PowerPoint files so you could present this to your church leadership. In the attached ZIP file is the PowerPoint Presentation and the MS Publisher files. Both are editable.

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Click here to download the file.

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Paul’s challenge to church communicators: Proclaim the whole will of God

1 May, 2010 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

In the Apostle Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders, he gives us a summary of the responsibilities of leaders in church that also applies to those who lead in church communication:

For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. 28Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. 29I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. 31So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears. Acts 20-27-31

Though Paul shares a number of challenges we can apply in our work as church communicators, one of them is especially difficult to apply:

“For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.”

As we communicate God's messages to his church, we need to make certain we are taking time to communicate all of it, the difficult parts as well as the more pleasant and encouraging ones.

We don't seem to have trouble communicating the upbeat and the positive, quoting God's promises and blessings and we should do that. Those messages alone, however are not the whole will of God and if that is all we are communicating we will present a distorted picture of the Christian message.

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Administrative Assistants & Church Communicators, remember who you are!

1 April, 2010 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Celebrating youIt's easy to forget in the midst of lots of hard work and deadlines the real importance of your work, but what you are doing literally changes the eternal destinies of people. I created the little Postcard pictured here for you to either download (Click here to download the PDF) or as a jpg image (click here to download the jpg). Please print it out and put it somewhere you can see it and be reminded. You can also use either one to create encouragements to other Administrative Assistants or Church Communicators.

This was originally done for Administrative Assistants Day, but I'm keeping it on the site because we always need encouragement.

Today may be lots of hard work, but in your future you will "shine like the stars forever!"

And why? Because your work brought lots of people to heaven with you.

Many blessings, prayers and love to all of you this Administrative Assistant's Day,

Yvon Prehn

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