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Recipe for Greek Easter Bread, an outreach treat for Easter guests

20 February, 2017 By Yvon Prehn 1 Comment

Easter bread recipe
This delicious Easter bread recipe is a fun way to invite people to attend your Easter events.

Which would you rather get to encourage you to come to church for Easter? A postcard that tells you how wonderful the church is or a really great recipe? Of course churches are going to talk about how wonderful they are at Easter time, but a great recipe for free—that's different and might get attention in a way something else won't.

Everybody loves recipes and this Greek Easter Bread is exceptionally delicious. It's my version of a recipe given to me years ago by a very dear Greek friend. It's a sweet yeast bread (not a coffee cake) and bakes up beautifully. In addition to serving the main version for Easter, I came up with an alternate version to serve with soup, especially something like tortilla soup, any time of the year. In this variation, you add jalapeno peppers and cheddar cheese--it is sooooooooooo good. The regular version makes great French Toast and the Cheddar/Jalapeno version is fantastic oven-toasted. Either way, it's something everyone would love.

Below are finished cards for the recipe that you can personalize on the back and below I included a print of the recipe. The link to the ZIP file for them is at the end of this article.

Here are some ways you can use the recipe for Easter Outreach:

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GIS: 2 Lenten Calendars, a focus on giving and a focus on prayer

11 February, 2017 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Lenten Calendar of Giving ideas
Just click on the PDF to download a full-size image. This is a wonderful inspirational entry to our Great Idea Swap. PLEASE send us your ideas so we can share them with other church communicators.

Lenten Calendars that can be printed out and posted on the refrigerator are a great way to focus the thoughts of your congregation during Lent. Here are two FREE samples for your from our Great Idea Swap.

A Lenten focus on Giving

Though there are many wonderful lessons we can learn from self-denial during Lent, the danger is always there that we can become excessively self-focused in our self-denial. This wonderful Lenten Calendar came in as a contribution to our Great Idea Swap and it is a fantastic way to encourage your people to give of themselves everyday during Lent. Click on the image to the left to download a PDF and be inspired to create your own.

Here is how Linda Watson, the church communicator who sent it in, describes it:

The attached calendar is included on the back page of our Lenten/Easter Newsletter every year. It was an idea started many years ago to increase the donations to our local Community Care program. We have an ongoing collection of staples for the less fortunate in our community, but the response to this calendar has been phenomenal! We update the calendar and promote this, every year, as a way of “giving” instead of “giving up” during Lent.

Linda Watson
St. Columba Church

Lenten Calendar with a Focus on prayer

Lenten Calendar with an emphasis on prayer
This beautifully done calendar is another way to inspire your congregation to life change during Lent.

This Calendar is from a few years ago in our Great Idea Swap, but it has always been one of my favorites. Not only does it have a very attractive layout and nice combination of text and images, but the suggested prayers and actions would be life-changing for any church.

Click on the image to the left to download a PDF and be inspired to create your own.

Please share your ideas!

Please CLICK HERE to find out more about this fantastic way to share and how to send in your materials.

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NEW Easter Templates Sets—PREVIEW and early downloads

17 January, 2017 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

This children's invitation is just one of dozens of Easter Templates that are coming.

As part of redoing many things on this site, I'm working on all new TEMPLATES for many Easter Communications. Below is a preview set of:

  • Easter Invitations Motivation flyers to get your congregation planning on who to invite,
  • Congregational Motivation flyers,
  • Children's materials featuring a "church bunny" and including the Jelly Bean Prayer,
  • Easter Connection Cards,
  • Easter Service Follow-up flyer

There will be more in the completed sets that will be released in the coming weeks along with tips on how to make the most of them. The samples below are in both MS Publisher editable files and PDF ready-to-print files. Below is a ZIP file where you can download them.

CLICK the following link to download the ZIP FILE of the Templates for the communications shown below: Preview Files for Easter 2017

CLICK on the first image and then you can see them larger in the Gallery view.

 

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Connection Card Sample of Privacy Statement

20 March, 2016 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Privacy Statemenet for Connection Card for Easter
A privacy statement such as the one here on your connection cards can make visitors feel better about filing them out.

People today are understandably nervous about sharing information, even with a church. One of our ECC Members, Karen Thomas, sent in this sample of the back of her Easter Connection Card with a very reassuring privacy statement. A statement such as this one may make visitors feel more comfortable about sharing information with you.

The text is below and you can copy and print it for your Connection Cards.

Click on the image to download the PDF for a closer look.

Privacy statement for the back of Connection Cards:

Privacy statement: Any information given on this sheet is confidential and will be shared only with the appropriate church staff. It will not be used in any way for commercial purposes. It will be used to communicate with you. Prayer requests or comments that are marked confidential will be given to the Pastor. All other prayer requests will be reproduced and distributed to the prayer warriors. Non-confidential comments will be passed on to the appropriate leaders. If you want to be removed from the mailing list, contact the church office.

Please send in your samples to share!

We are so grateful to Karen for sending in her sample of the Connection Card Privacy Statement.

After Easter or anytime, please send in your samples to share with other Church Communicators—we really do learn best from each other. Please CLICK HERE to go to our Great Idea Swap where you can share your ideas. We really appreciate it!

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Easter is a great time to create a church overview booklet

3 March, 2016 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Many people will visit your church on Easter who will have no idea what your church does on a regular basis. If you want to fully inform them about your church, consider creating a Church Overview Booklet.

This is a lot of work, but it can have positive results for many months to come. Below is a PDF that explains them in more detail and gives examples of some.


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