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Fall Harvest Festival Invitations, ready for you to modify and use

3 October, 2016 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Church Fall Festival Invitation
We've got a variety of styles of Fall Festival Cards for you, check them out!

It's time to be getting out Fall Festival (of many kinds) invitations to your communities and we have a set for you!

The cards are simple enough on one side that you can use them without modification and add your details on the backside. They can be used as both invitations you give out and as postcards, you mail out.

Below is a FREE PDF Card for everyone to download and use. After that is the gallery of invitations that are available in ready-to-print PDF format as well as the editable MS Publisher Files.

Best Postcard idea EVER......

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How to create “ministry motivating communications” and tips for photos, writing, creating videos in them

25 May, 2014 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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You don't have to yell to get people to motivate people in ministry--here is a video program that will help.

In ministry we want people to respond to our message with tangible actions and to do that we need to create what this training article refers to as "ministry motivating communications."

In contrast to administrative or teaching communications, the purpose of ministry motivating communications, is to create a change in the lives of your audience. That change might be to encourage them to grow in their walk with Jesus, to become involved in a ministry, to donate time or money, to be challenged to share their faith. To be most effective creating these behavior responses, ministry motivating communications must involve the hearts and emotions of your audience in addition to their minds. When the heart is involved, people are more likely to take action. And to involve the heart, it's helpful to stimulate emotions to drive that response.

An important point needs to be clarified here. This isn't about creating artificial, falsely generated, ramped-up emotions. This is not about by-passing the mind—solid facts, statistics, and examples are part of the foundation of our communications, but to motivate to action, conviction, and life change, we often need to go beyond the facts.

Children dying of hunger; children without education or drinking water, young people sold into slavery, these issues and many more are worthy of our deepest emotions. We should cry. They should pull at our hearts. Some situations should make us sick to our stomach and angry.

When Christians do not grow in their faith, when they act in disobedience to God's Word and harm themselves and others, when they do not walk worthy of their calling and cause the Lord shame, whether from lack of teaching, not knowing any better, or outright disobedience, we shouldn't be indifferent. This is not how the Christian life is to be lived.

These situations need to be changed. The task of the Christian communicator is to share situations and stories, physically and spiritually, locally and globally, so that people will see the needs, feel them in their hearts, and respond in concrete actions.

We can do that in print and online writing, and in addition, video gives us a powerful tool to create ministry motivation communication. [Read more...]

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An overview of Halloween outreach materials

30 September, 2013 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Here is a great collection of communications you can use to invite, connect with and follow up with your community on Halloween.

Halloween provides a great outreach opportunity for churches to make connections with their communities. It takes a lot of communications to do that effectively and we've got everything you need from motivational bulletin inserts for your church, invitations, postcards, registration and connection cards for the events themselves.

The video below gives you a preview of them and below the video is a link to download the communication files. They include ready-to-print PDFs and editable MS Publisher files. The files are free for Effective Church Communications Members. They are only available to ECC Members--and are one of the great benefits of ECC Membership. CLICK HERE to find out more about how to become a member and to sign up.

Below is the link to the files for ECC Members.

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To download the files that are illustrated in this video, CLICK HERE.

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A very FREE, FUN, EASY, and Creative tool for Halloween graphics

11 October, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

This is SO much fun! It is a short presentation of a free and very easy and fun program you can use to create and modify Halloween communications. So many things I've talked about Halloween outreach are rather heavy and intense--this is purely a fun thing--a way to modify any image with Halloween images.


 
CLICK HERE TO go to LINKS to motivation and tools to help you share the good news about Jesus at Halloween

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LINKS to motivation and tools to help you share the good news about Jesus at Halloween

10 October, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Halloween Resources
Invitations, videos, motivation, sign-in cards & more--whatever you need for Halloween outreach, there are links here.

In church communications, we do what we do because we believe that the eternal destinies of people depends on how they respond to Jesus. We know that–but in the midst of long days and overwhelming demands it is easy to forget.

Halloween gives us an opportunity to use our communications to challenge people to explore the claims of Jesus--but it takes a lot of work to do that. The communications below will help you:

Just click on the links below each entry to go to the additional information. [Read more...]

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