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Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission

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Communication is one of the most challenging church ministries because it is often the gateway to the entire church. To do it effectively requires more than the latest images, social media, and technology tips.

You need a timeless strategy, inspiration, and Biblical challenges that work no matter what tech tools and channels you use, the size of your church or age of your audience. You'll get them in the Effective Church Communication Podcast.

PODCAST: Strategy for Summer Communications

18 June, 2024 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Summer Communications
The summer communications from our churches should be clear and kind and this podcast will give you some tips on how to make them more effective.

Whoever wrote that song, "Summertime and the livin' is easy" did not work in church communications.

The pace and type of activities change in the summer, but with Bible camps and special events, there is a lot of work to be done.

Hi, I'm Yvon Prehn and welcome to the Effective Church Communications Podcast.

In our podcast today I'll give you some tips for more effective summer communications. CLICK HERE for FREE TEMPLATES of communications that you can use for effective outreach this summer.

For the original article that forms the basis of this podcast, go to: https://wp.me/pDky9-7pK

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Was Jesus a zombie?—NO irreverence intended, but an honestly asked question and an answer

4 October, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

I was challenged with this question twice in one week by people who were quite serious and not affiliated with any church. After I got over my initial shock, I realized it was a question worth an answer, and the question might be something other churches may be asked.

Following is my answer in video format and the script for it follows. Please consider this as an example of how people may be spiritually searching in ways we wouldn't think about and how Halloween can give us an opportunity to share the one Person who truly came back from the dead, not as a zombie, but our incredibly, eternally ALIVE, Lord Jesus.

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ECC PODCAST: Father’s Day—Beyond celebration—how to make the ministry most of it to grow Dads spiritually

7 May, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

It's easy to look at Father's Day as just another holiday to do up a special bulletin and social media for and to say a few nice things about Dads during the church service. But did you know you can do so much more as communicators for Jesus?

We need to constantly remind ourselves in the crush of trivia and distraction that our job is not to be a holy version of Hallmark where our goal is to have the most appealing Father's Day social media and PowerPoint ever, but that our primary job in communications, as in all of life if we are followers of Jesus, is to grow as his disciples and to share his message of salvation—in other words, to fully fulfill the Great Commission. Below is our podcast where we explain how Father's Day can be used to grow men in their faith and following the podcast are notes from it and links to the resources mentioned in it.

You might wonder why a church communication article starts out by reminding you of the importance of discipleship, but as followers of Jesus that is the most important aspect of our lives and our work as church communicators is simply the arena in which we carry it out.

Ephesians 5:16-17 reminds us of this and challenges us in this way:

So be careful how you act; these are difficult days. Don’t be fools; be wise: make the most of every opportunity you have for doing good. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but try to find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to.

At Effective Church Communications, my goal is to remind you to "make the most of every opportunity for doing good" and to give you practical opportunities to do that. [Read more...]

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PODCAST: Mother’s Day–Make the Most of the Untapped Potential for Evangelism and Outreach

17 April, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Mothers Day Outreach opportunitiesWhen we think about Mother's Day we think about doing special things for the moms in our churches and that's wonderful, but we can do something for them that makes flowers and chocolate pale in comparison.

We can help their kids and spouses who may not know Jesus have an opportunity to hear about him and connect with the church to find out more. But to do that, we need to realize that Mother's Day has the big attendance it does (just behind Easter and Christmas) not because of all the moms who are there because they are there every week or because random moms show up for the goodies. The visitors on this day are unchurched children and spouses who show up to make mom happy and we need to tailor the message and what happens that morning with them in mind.

This PODCAST talks about how to do that and the FREE TEMPLATES at the following link will give you the tools you need: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/templates/mothers-day-templates/

You can listen to the PODCAST below and you can sign up for it on iTunes or many other podcast sources.

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Foundational lessons to grow your church in numbers and your people in spiritual maturity

11 March, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

The following lessons can radically change how your church communicates and the results of it. These also form the foundation for much of the teaching from Effective Church Communications which is based on the goal of helping your church create communications that will fully fulfill the Great Commission.

The videos are on the Effective Church Communications YouTube channel and I'll be posting more videos regularly.

Please subscribe and share the resource with other church communicators; they won't get training like this anywhere else.

The Five Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing, a strategic and sequential plan

The 5 Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing

This is a strategic and sequential plan that will take people from outside the church and grow them into mature disciples.

Most churches work hard on communications, but they are often done without direction towards the overall goals of the church. This training will change that and give you a vision and North Star for your communications to all work towards fully fulfilling the Great Commission.

Successful Seasonal Strategies

Churches put on great seasonal events and often get a great turnout.

However, though they expect people will come to the church the following Sunday, that often doesn't happen.

This will teach you how to change that and grow your church in numbers and at the same time grow your people in spiritual maturity.

How the 5 Steps and Successful Seasonal Strategies Work TogetherHow the 5 Steps and Successful Seasonal Strategies work together

Both of the strategies, the 5 Steps and Successful Seasonal Strategies work on their own and they work together even better—this lesson will show you how.

You don't have to be familiar with the two other lessons to benefit from this one, in fact, this can be a good overview and then you can watch the other two later.

The books mentioned in the lessons and more are at:

https://www.payhip.com/ECCLibrary

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