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GIVING TUESDAY—my gift to YOU—dozens of FREE CHRISTMAS Templates!!!!! No strings attached…..really FREE

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Free Christmas Templates
Just one of the dozens of free Christmas Templates for you to download and use.

I've had trouble not being a bit of a humbug the last few days. From the horror of Black Friday frenzy intruding into Thanksgiving to the screaming online advertisements of companies that have huge sales, or piles of links to other sales (affiliate bait), to countdowns of the deals and reminders every time you open your email that it is your LAST CHANCE for this incredible DEAL.

One of the SQUARE Christmas Business Card size templates available in our Christmas Template set.

 

Last year I bought a number of those deals and in a year's time haven't used many of them and the ones I tried didn't do what I hoped they'd do. My response this year was to delete and unsubscribe. I can't seem to keep up on all the work I need to do with the tools I have now. Humbug.

Then along comes GIVING TUESDAY

The Days of the Year Website tells us:

Giving Tuesday was created when two organizations, the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation came together in 2012, about a month before that year's Thanksgiving. Their intention was to set aside a day that was all about celebrating the generosity of giving, a great American tradition.

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Video: about ECC TEMPLATES and an overview of FREE CHRISTMAS TEMPLATES

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Christmas is incredibly busy and Templates, when you want to do something quickly without having to take time to agonize over design or legal images or what typeface to use, can be a great time saver.

Effective Church Communications has created hundreds of Templates for you that will not only save you time, but that will help you accomplish the ministry goals of helping people come to know Jesus as Savior and growing to maturity in your Christian faith.

The video here explains how and why our templates can be useful to you and gives you an overview and examples of how we put our ministry strategy into practice for Christmas.

You can download all the Christmas Templates HERE.

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Don’t forget to say “Thank YOU!” to your Christmas volunteers—cards done for you to help you do that.

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I'm sure all of your Christmas special programs were an incredible success—thanks in large measure to the hard work of your many volunteers. And I'm sure you want to take time to thank all of them, but have little energy to do it. Effective Church Communications can help in that we have a set of Christmas Thank-You cards. The main message is on the front and on the back all you have to do is write a short note in the half of the card across from the address.

Before the year starts in all it's demands (and Easter will be here sooner than we can imagine), take the time to do this. It's wonderful for your volunteers and pleasing to our Lord who commands us, "In everything to give thanks" (1 Thes. 5:18).

Below is a gallery of the cards.

CLICK following to download the ZIP FILES: christmas-thank-you-cards

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