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.

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: Don’t default to Magical Thinking when planning your seasonal outreach

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No magical thinking for church events
HARD WORK, not Magical Thinking is what will accomplish the results we pray for in our seasonal outreach events.

PODCAST INTRO:

Easter is fast approaching and as we look at all the work ahead, don't you wish that people would magically appear at your events after one announcement from the pulpit or one notice in the bulletin and in social media?

Not only that, wouldn't it be wonderful if they'd magically come back and start attending the church regularly after one visit?

But we know it probably won't work out like this will it?

Hi, I'm Yvon Prehn and Welcome to the Effective Church Communications Podcast!

Today our topic is:  Don't default to Magical Thinking when planning your seasonal outreach

Click below to listen to the podcast or listen on iTunes or any of your favorite podcast channels.

You might protest that you would NEVER count on magic to do anything in the church and mean it. But unfortunately, the communication actions in many churches tell a different story because. . . . .

Magical thinking takes place when you assume that simply by doing certain things, you will get the results you want without actually doing the hard work you need to do to get them

And sadly, churches do this all the time and wonder why they don’t get the results they want from their outreach.

In today’s Podcast we’ll go over FIVE examples of Magical Thinking in church seasonal communications, why they don’t work and what you need to do instead of Magical Thinking to assure the response you want at your church for your seasonal celebrations.

For the FREE TEMPLATES mentioned in the Podcast, CLICK HERE

For an article that has the text of the podcast, notes, and links mentioned, CLICK HERE.

Where to listen to the Effective Church Communications Podcast: available on iTunes; Spotify, Stitcher, Public Radio, and many more !

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Effective Church Com Podcast

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Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-better-way-for-church-communicators-podcast-by-yvon-prehn/id1438370124?mt=2&uo=4

Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83MjAzODAwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz

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Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/a-better-way-for-church-communicators-podcast-by-yvon-prehn

Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id1454283

Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1438370124/a-better-way-for-church-communicators-podcast-by-yvon-prehn

Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/6jxH

RadioPublic: https://radiopublic.com/a-better-way-for-church-communica-6NaAdl

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/a-better-way-for-church-communicators-podcast-by-yvon-prehn

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

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Why Jesus isn't a Zombie
Not an irreverent question, but an opportunity to share the gospel at Halloween.

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

To answer I did several things:

  1. A Podcast on my new Bible Podcast, Bible 805. I've been asked to do this for a long time by people in my Sunday School Classes and I finally decided to start it. In the next week or so I'll have lots more on there and I'll tell you about the system and using and how to access it, but for now you can listen to the podcast below and following it is
  2. The Podcast script, which you can use if you want to share the content in any way.
  3. The gallery of images in social media sizes below you can download if you want to share what I've written or anything on your own as a way to use Halloween as an opportunity to share the gospel. You can click the following link to download a zip file of the images: Not a ZOMBIE social media image set

The podcast

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