Effective Church Communications
Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission
We all need inspiration and this week I got a catalog in the mail that greatly inspired me with new designs and color combinations. I decided the best way to tell you about it (it is about visual design after all) was to do a little video, which I did and which is below.
Below the video are links to the websites I reference in the video.
Enjoy!
https://www.flor.com/area-rugs/show-all
https://glowsly.com/pantone-fall-2019-colors-trends/
August is the last month of vacation for many and in many churches the time when attendance drops to an all-time low.
Though understandable, sometimes all people need is a reminder that God doesn't take a vacation and neither does the church. The set of postcards here are part of a FREE ZIP file (link below the images) that you could send out to people who perhaps have been sporadic in their attendance during the summer. The cards are upbeat and encouraging and an easy way to let people know you are thinking about them.
You could also make up extra cards for members of the congregation to address and send to friends that they know may have missed church in the summer.
The FREE ZIP file below the images has ready-to-print PDFs of the cards, an editable MS Publisher file, and images of the cards you could use on your website or email newsletters.
Click the following link to download the cards above: SUMMER POSTCARDS church reminder
Many churches hold end-of-the-summer events. Ours ours does a Lemon Festival with a free community BBQ and a huge lemon dessert contest. We are a neighborhood church that was built in a former lemon grove and the festival is a fun and fitting way to invite the community to the church one more time.
If your church is doing something like that, make the most of the event by giving everyone an invitation card that invites them back to church. If you are truly reaching out to people who don't normally attend church, they have no idea what else you do or when you do it.
A card that gives details and links to your website and social media can make all the difference.
Below are some FREE templates for you to use to make business-card size back-to-church reminder cards and you can personalize them by putting your information on the back. The ZIP File for them has a ready-to-print PDF, plus editable MS Publisher files and image files in hi and low resolutions.
To download the ZIP file that contains the cards above, click this link: Back to church invite cards for summer events
Please take a few minutes to make up something like this for your end-of-summer events, it can make all the difference for a guest who needs to find the Lord.
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For more SUMMER Templates: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/templates/summer-themed-templates/
Ed. note: this is an excerpt from a longer article on summer communication strategy, but I feel the topic is so important, I wanted to post it on it's own.
Yes, that is all caps and I am shouting. I'm going to sound very harsh now, but I feel strongly about this and I think the extensive Biblical support for caring for the "least of these" and being concerned about the poor supports my concern.
Here is the situation I've seen in the PR of some churches (and as is the habit of our ministry, we don't name names of bad examples):
How do you think that feels for a family that might have taken a huge step to go to the event they heard that was going on at the church but they have four kids who would love a hotdog or a taco, but then they find out that there is a charge for food (popcorn and chips do not a meal make) and they simply don't have the money for it. What will they do? [Read more...]
