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Don’t forget to say “Thank YOU!” to your Christmas volunteers—cards done for you to help you do that PLUS a new PRINTABLE!

16 November, 2025 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

I'm sure all of your Christmas special programs are going to be an incredible success—thanks in large measure to the hard work of your many volunteers.

And I'm sure you want to take time to thank all of them, but have little energy to do it.

Effective Church Communications can help in that I have a set of Christmas Thank-You cards, illustrated in the gallery below. The main message is on the front and on the back all you have to do is write a short note in the half of the card across from the address.

After an event is over, often you are exhausted, and I recommend, if you can that you could print out, personalize, and have them ready to go right after the event. People will be immediately encouraged and you can relax.

A new free image in PRINTABLE formats

Christmas Angel as a Thank youIn addition to the cards, I added a PRINTABLE FOR YOU. This is from the Bibleverse Shop. The downloadable file has 12 different formats from social media images to images in every size and high resolution from 5x7 to 8.5x11 to 24x36 that will reproduce well on office printers as well as printing services. After printing it you can put your images into frames from the Dollar Store or similar places. It's a great way to creat gifts for your volunteers who work so hard during the Christmas Season. In addition, through the Bibleverse Shop you have permission to reproduce as many copies as you want and its all FREE! To download, either click on the image or THIS LINK.

Additional cards that can be used to thank volunteers

I know you don't want one more thing added to your list, but please do take the time to do this. It's wonderful for your volunteers and pleasing to our Lord who commands us, "In everything to give thanks" (1 Thes. 5:18).

Below is a gallery of the cards. Use however you want. Below the images is the FREE ZIP file to download all of them.

CLICK following to download the ZIP FILES: christmas-thank-you-cards

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Follow the example of the Apostle Paul—make Halloween a great time for Evangelism and FREE materials to help you do that!

19 September, 2025 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Or how to use everything that is bad about Halloween as a tool to share the gospel—

If there is a holiday that causes controversy in the church, it is Halloween. Some churches welcome it as a great time to do community outreach with alternative Halloween events; others shake their fingers and condemn churches that even mention the term.

It’s always easier to curse the darkness than to flood it with light, but taking our cue from the Apostle Paul who used the pagan idols in Athens as his bridge to sharing the gospel, I'd like to challenge you to use this time of year to share the gospel.

Following is a brief video of the material that follows and after it the text of it and at the end of the blog, FREE Downloadable materials for you to use in your Halloween outreach. Please make the most of them and don't miss this opportunity!

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FREE HANDOUTS for Halloween evangelism and the true Christian view of life after death

17 September, 2025 By Yvon Prehn 2 Comments

Ghosts aren't real but Jesus is --Resources for Fall and Halloween church outreach
Halloween can be a great time for evangelism and a small handout like this can make a lasting impact at your celebrations.

UPDATED intro: If you only do ONE thing to reach out to people at Halloween and at your alternative events with the Gospel Message—do THIS—make one of these communications to hand out in Goodie bags or as people leave. To make the most of our time and to share the true message of what happens after death, this is a way to do it.  First is a preview of the materials you can download, and for more motivation, check out the materials that follow it....

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Social media images for Easter with challenging messages

3 January, 2025 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Easter message--and free Instagram images
Though a little more wordy than some Instagram images, this challenges people to think about why Jesus is the reason for the Easter season.

Because so many people think that Easter is only about bunnies and brunch we need to share with our invitations and in all our communications about Easter that it is about so much more!

This is a continuation of the topic discussed in Why just "Come to Easter at Our Church" isn't enough--FREE invitations with short, but powerful messages

Because so many people think that Easter is only about bunnies and brunch we need to share with our invitations and in all our communications about Easter that it is about so much more!

These social media images (the zip file has images sized for Instagram) will help you do that. They are free for you to download, share, and use in any way you'd like. The ZIP file is below the images. Click on the first image and they will enlarge for you to read the text more clearly. You can read them fine on your phone.

CLICK HERE to download the ZIP FILE with the images: Easter Social Media Images

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From our vault: Everything you need for Easter: Templates, strategy, inspiration and encouragement for all your Easter communications

3 January, 2025 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Easter Invitation
This is one of the Easter Invitation Templates. You can link to dozens more from this article.

Effective Church Communications has dozens of Resources, including articles, podcasts, and FREE Templates you can use for all the Easter communications you need for before, during, and after Easter.

These are from our Template and Podcast vaults--we will be creating new ones but many of these designs and the strategy linked to them are timeless.

The FREE templates have all the work of communications done for you: the design, layout, choice of type, and copyright-free artwork is all done saving you many hours. The Templates are in both ready-to-print PDF format (which you can personalize on the back) and easy-to-modify, MS Publisher files. Please let others know about these resources. Following are links to all of them: [Read more...]

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