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Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission

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

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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:

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

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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...]

PODCAST: Mother’s Day–Make the Most of the Untapped Potential for Evangelism and Outreach

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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.

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

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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.

This image 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 jpegs 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 now available at the Bibleverse Shop!

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 are 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 jpegs.

It's now here! The Bibleverse Shop!

I now 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 jpg. You can 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. The Bibleverse Shop is now OPEN and these images show what you'll be able to do with the files on the site.

Download these files for the Images

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

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

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

Files for Home & Church Printing

FREE eBook and links to resources to help you make the most of Mother’s Day–the BEST outreach and discipleship Sunday of the year…..really

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MOTHER DAY Cover--make the most of it for evangelism and discipleship
Mother's Day is THE BEST Sunday of the year for evangelism and discipleship--read this FREE eBook to understand why and for tips on how to do make the most of it.

Mother's Day gets some of the highest attendance of unchurched visitors of any Sunday and it isn't because of Mothers.

The Mothers are always there. The high attendance comes from the unchurched kids and spouses who come to church that week to make Mom happy. To help you make the most of it I pulled together some of my most popular resources and put them into an ebook that will help you make the most of it.

What’s here in the FREE OUTREACH materials for Mother's Day

  • Reprints of materials from the Effective Church Communications website (www.effectivechurchcom.com) that will:
    • Give you a new vision for the outreach and evangelism opportunities of this day and how to make the most of them.
    • Reminders of how to be kind to those who aren’t Mothers.
    • Ideas for how to use Mother’s day as a discipleship opportunity for your entire church.
  • Also enclosed in this eBook are copies of One Mother’s Prayer, a true story that has been reprinted and used thousands of times all over the world to encourage both physical and spiritual mothers to pray for the children they love. You have permission to make unlimited copies of One Mother’s Prayer (I, Yvon Prehn, wrote it and I’m giving permission to you) to use it or reprint in any way you want. It can used it in prayer groups, as a handout for
    Mother’s Day, for Mom’s groups, for Grandparents, shared in print, social media, or
    websites, however you’d like. No linking or attribution required.
  • Tips for communications you can create before, during, and after Mother’s Day, plus links to FREE templates to enable you to do that.

 

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