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.
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Mother’s Day Resources — Don’t miss out on the fantastic outreach and evangelism opportunities at this time!

1 May, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Mothers day image
This is part of a set of images that can be used to celebrate the women in your church on Mother's Day or anytime. CLICK on the image to go to the set.

Mother's Day has the third-highest church attendance of the year, right after Easter and Christmas and the reason for that isn't because of the Mothers that are there—

It's because of the unchurched spouses and children who showed up on that day to make Mom happy!

Because of that, Mother's Day is THE most important evangelism and outreach opportunity you have all year. But sadly, few churches take advantage of this reality.

This video will not only give you ideas on how to make the most of Mother's Day, but previews the FREE resources you can go to implement it at: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/templates/mothers-day-templates/.

All the publications in the video are at the link above including the sheet for One Mother's Prayer.

eBook on Mothers Day and the evangelism opportunities of itFor this eBook on Mother's Day Strategy, go to this link: https://payhip.com/b/ryS73

For the Printables shown below that celebrates godly women and says, "Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised," plus many others appropriate to celebrate moms, go to this link: https://payhip.com/b/ryS73

At the link above you can download files that can be used in everything from social media sizes to large posters. You can also print out 5x7 or 8.5x11 sizes and put them in Dollar Store frames to share with the women of your church.

Here are the varieties of images available:

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Filed Under: Mother's Day, Social Media, Women's Ministry Tagged With: church give-aways for Mothers Day, evangelism on Mothers Day, Mother's Day outreach

Why the emphasis on evangelism and discipleship for Mother’s Day

19 April, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Mothers Day Resources
Celebrating Mothers is important on Mother's Day, but we can do more to reach out to unchurched families at this time.

The reasons for doing more on Mother's Day that focusing solely on celebrating Moms has to do with the overall approach of the Effective Church Communications ministry.

Bear with me for a few minutes while I explain (and if you are super busy, just go HERE for free Mother's Day Templates).

Brief background of the philosophy underlying Effective Church Communications

I never imagined when I was astounded with the technical ability of the IBM Self-Correcting typewriter that I'd be communicating today creating images in Canva, doing podcasts, and training videos for church communicators on the web that reach the world.I imagine those starting out with the technology we have today will look back, should they and this world last, and be amazed at what they will use in church communications five decades from now.

Tools are essential, but often a distraction

Though technology and the tools we use to communicate have continuously changed from the use of clay tablets to the Internet (though the pace has accelerated greatly), a human tendency continues to focus on the tools as THE most important ingredient to communication success. At one time it was radio that would reach the world, then television, then the Internet came along and gave birth to the myriad of technologies today.

A bulletin with color added was a big deal at one time; now churches worry that they aren't posting enough on all the latest social media channels.

Each time a new tool appears we loudly proclaim THIS IS IT! Conquer this or that tool and the world will be reached for Jesus. Or at least we'll have a new tool to try. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Misc. Advice and Articles, Mother's Day Tagged With: approach for Mothers Day for churches, Make the most of Mothers Day, Mothers day and discipeship, Mothers day and evangeslism, Why a different approach to Mother's Day is needed

One Mother’s Prayer, a new set of PDFs to share for Mother’s Day and anytime for prayer groups

19 April, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

One Mothers Prayer--a true story of the power of Prayer
Prayer is the most powerful gift we can give those we love. Read this true story and be encouraged in your prayers.

This true story has been one of the popular pieces on this site because it is an encouraging reminder of the power of a Mother's Prayers.

Whether someone is a mom biologically or spiritually, our prayers are the most powerful gifts we can give to those we love.

As this true story shows, prayer can totally change the direction of a life and turn someone who may have been openly hostile to the Christian faith into a powerful witness for Jesus.

Below are some new images of it I created recently in Canva. The ZIP file is of ready-to-print PDFs and jpg images.

If you want some of the older images, editable files, and the text file of One Mother's Prayer, go to: One Mother's Prayer, a free and inspiring story for however you want to use it for Mother's Day

To download the ZIP file of the ready-to-print PDFs and jpg images, click the following link: One Mothers Prayers 2020

 

 

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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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FREE PRINTABLES, images for Mother’s Day in all formats and sizes

22 April, 2021 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Prov 31:30, to celebrate any woman who serves God
These images can be printed up in a variety of sizes to honor women at Mother's Day or any time.

I'm in the process of a HUGE change in the Effective Church Communications ministry and this set of images is a preview of them.

This is part of a collection of printable images you can download and use in any digital format in 96 dpi and also in high-resolution PDFs and 300 dpi jpgs that can be printed at large sizes through online printing shops. I can only give you some of the smaller sizes here (because of upload size limitations), but the larger sizes are coming.

Please click on the images and a larger view will come up.

I chose this verse because though it is a great one to share for Mother's Day, it applies to all women, biological moms or spiritual moms, or any woman who deserves praise because she fears the Lord.

At the bottom of this article are downloadable files that contain the images in these sizes and formats including:

  • INSTAGRAM and FACEBOOK size 96 dpi images useful for any way you want to use them in a digital, social media, or web format.
  • Ready to print PDFs, 2 sizes in one folder for 8.5 and A4—the most common for a full-size sheet printed out in with standard church or office printers. Plus high resolution 300 dpi jpgs.

COMING SOON the Bibleverse Shop

I will have a system and a place (the Bibleverse Shop) where I can also provide a selection of sizes and formats that can be sized from small images to 24x36 and 30x30 in both high-resolution PDFs and high resolution 300 dpi jpgs. You will be able to use these files to have the images printed at your local print shops, or online with Costco, Vista Print, Staples, and many more.

At your home or office, you can print them out and then put them into frames for gifts or for inspiration around your church. The mockups below illustrate some of the ideas. These files (even when condensed) are HUGE which is one of the reasons why I have to have the other system I'm working on to be able to make them available to you. It is coming soon and these images show what you'll be able to do with the files I'll be providing:

Download these files for the Images

Please ignore references to the Bibleverse in the downloads--but it is coming soon!

Click on the links below, the first for Instagram and Facebook, 96 dpi images for all digital uses.

The second one for 8.5 x 11 and A4 files in both hi-resolution PDFs and 300 high resolution dpi jpgs for printing.

Files for Home & Church Printing Files for Digital & Social Media

Files for Home & Church Printing

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