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.

Mother’s Day Invitations to church, a free sample and link to member downloads

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Mothers Day Invitation #1 IMAGE Mother's Day is a wonderful time not only to celebrate mom's but to reach out to unchurched family members. But you can't do that if they aren't there.

This is a sample PDF invitation for you to download and use as an invitation.

Click on the image to download the PDF or click here.

In the section following, you will find ZIP File download that not only has this invitation, but also has the following two invitations.The images below do not link to download PDFs.

In addition to all three invitations, you also get the original MS Publisher files, plus a jpg file of each invitation.

In addition to all three invitations, members also get the original MS Publisher files, plus a jpg file of each invitation.

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CLICK HERE to download a ZIP file that contains:

  • All three Mother's Day Invitations
  • MS Publisher Original files (you must have MS Publisher to use this file)
  • PDF Files
  • Resizable jpg files

After you download the file, SAVE it to your computer, then click on it to "unzip" it and the files are ready for you to use.

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The often-missed evangelism and ministry opportunities of Mother’s Day

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Mother's Day Sunday is the third highest day for attendance in churches in North America, running slightly behind Christmas and Easter. Though most churches know this and work hard to make it a special Sunday, many miss significant evangelism and spiritual growth opportunities for that day-because of the day's exclusive focus on mothers.

Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying churches shouldn't honor mothers on Mother's Day. They should; it is an important time to praise mothers and to thank God for them. What I'm recommending is that churches not make mothers their exclusive focus, but that they take advantage of the additional ministry opportunities made possible that day because of mothers. These are primarily in two areas and they are:

  • The unchurched child and/or spouse outreach opportunity
  • The opportunity to challenge for spiritual parenting

Let's look at these two ministry opportunities in more detail:

The unchurched child and/or spouse outreach opportunity

The reason that churches are so full on Mother's Day is not because it is the only time of year mothers come to church. Most of the mothers at the church are regular attendees. The reason so many people come to church on Mother's day is the unchurched people in the lives of many mothers rarely, if ever, come to church, but they will come on this day to make mom happy. [Read more...]

One Mother’s Prayer, the text and download link

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One Mother's Prayer
This piece is a perfect handout for Mother's Day or anytime you want to encourage people to pray for children.

This short piece, One Mother's Prayer, is a true story that is both an encouragement to pray for children and an assurance of the power of prayer to change a destiny.

It has been published more times than anything else I've written. It was first published in Today's Christian Woman magazine. Then in their Best of Ten Years of writings, it has been reprinted and republished all over the world, and it continues to bring tears to the eyes of any group I read it to. You are free to use it any way you want and share it however you want.

This sample PDF if free to download.You can click here or on the image to download it.

Members will get the all of the additional PDF formats: 2 more 8 1/2 by 11 plus 4 other versions on half sheet size plus the jpgs of the larger files and an MS Word text file if you want to create your own publication. The text file and the link to all the other downloads is after the images below.

This is a great resource not only for Mother's Day, but any time of the year for Mom's groups and prayer groups. [Read more...]

Mother’s Day, communications that will help you make the most of the outreach opportunities, Webinar On-Demand

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Take a few minutes to watch this and you'll never look at Mother's Day at your church in the same way.

Mother's Day has the third highest attendance of any Sunday and it isn't because of all the mothers there. It's because of the unchurched spouses and kids who come with mom!

This is a fantastic day for outreach, but you have to intentionally make the most of it. Below is a short video that will give you great ideas on how to do this. I STRONGLY recommend you take a few minutes in your staff meeting to discuss this and plan how you can make the most of this day for outreach.

Below the video is a PDF of the handouts for the presentation.

HANDOUTS for VIDEO for Mother's day

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Click here to go to a download file that previews ALL of the publications that are in the video. This is a very large file that has all the editable files and PDFs when you download it--but it is a gold mine of resources.