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

Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and a Biblical Perspective to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. Our tools constantly change; our task doesn’t; we can help.

Free Facebook & Pinterest Images for Father’s Day

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FREE Fathers Day Social Media Images
Father's Day is a great time to celebrate Fathers and these images will help you do that!

In addition to the numerous Fathers Day Templates for print that are available in our Template Section (CLICK HERE to go to the Father's Day list, these images are at the bottom of the page), I created some for you for Facebook and Pinterest. Though you can't edit these they are useful as they are to post for inspiration on social media or as links to Father's Day events. Though they are the specific sizes for Facebook and Pinterest you can scale them down and use them in any way you want--on your website or in email newsletters.

Let me know if you like these social media images and I'll continue to create more for your church.

Please feel free to pass on the links for these to other churches.

Below are pictures of the images and below the pictures is a link to the zip file for you to download, open and enjoy!

Facebook images for Father's Day

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Welcome slides for Father’s Day

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It's a special day for Dads and what better way to start off Sunday than with a WELCOME! PowerPoint slide just for them? Following is a set of welcome slides I created that use the same artwork as many of the communication created for Father's Day.

Below is a gallery of the images and below that a link to a ZIP file that has the images and the PowerPoint file of them.

To download the ZIP file for the images and PowerPoint file above, click the following link: Fathers Day Slides

 

Father’s Day Power Point Slides and Videos of inspiring quotes and verses

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To celebrate Father's Day, I created a set of PowerPoint Slides for church communications using verses and some wonderful quotes about Fathers. You could use these at any point in your church service. After creating them, I decided to make them into a video and the video has two versions, one with a voice-over reading the verses and one with only music. You can do whatever you'd like with the videos and please share them.

Below the videos are the images and after the videos, a downloadable ZIP file of the PowerPoint slides that you can use in any way you want.

Video with voice-over

Video with music only

To download the ZIP file for the images and PowerPoint file above, click the following link: Father's Day Quotes on Slides

 

National Day of Prayer flyers and bulletin inserts for all countries and for any year

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We should continuously pray for our leaders and nations and these flyers will give you a way to remind your congregation not only on the National Day of Prayer, but whenever you want.

The National Day of Prayer in the U.S. is the first Thursday in May of each year, but our prayers for our nations, wherever they are shouldn't be confined to one day. Keeping that in mind, I created a set of flyers or bulletin inserts you can make up for your congregations. Some are specific to America, but I made a couple for my many friends and Effective Church Communications Members in Canada and the majority can be used by anyone anywhere.

I also intentionally created these without any specific date so you can use them any year.

You can print them up as is and then on the back put whatever local or church gatherings you have to pray.

Below are images of the flyers and below the image is a link to the PDF file of the flyers.

CLICK the following link to download the PDF file of the flyers:  PDF Nat Day of Prayer flyer

 

An opportunity to pray for unchurched family members for Mother’s Day

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Family members who don't come any other time of year may visit your church for Mother's Day. Here is a bulletin insert or flyer you can use to encourage your congregation to pray for them.

Flowers and candy are nice, but for many Mothers the desire of their heart is that those family members, spouses and children who don't know Jesus would come to Him. Mother's Day is a fantastic opportunity to reach out to these loved ones and the bulletin insert/flyer/or text however you want to use it is a way to involve your church in praying for them.

Below are images of the flyers and below them is a link to a ZIP file that has PDFs of them that are ready to print and use, editable MS Publisher files, and jpeg images for you to use to share in publications encouraging your congregation to pray.

CLICK the following link to Download the ZIP file: Mothers Day Prayer Bulletin insert or flyer

Text from the handouts

Below is the text from the handouts for you to use in any way you want, no attribution or credit required:

Our church has an opportunity to pray with Mothers in preparation for Mother’s Day because out of all the Sundays of the year, this is the one Sunday unchurched children and spouses may come to church to make Mom happy.

So below is a place for you to list the names of people the Mothers you know would like you to pray for. Ask for prayer requests and remember to not only ask biological Mothers, but the many spiritual Mothers in our church, who may have spiritual children in their lives that are precious to them and who they want to come to know Jesus.

In addition to praying for the guests who come, pray for our church body to put our prayers into practice by focusing on our unchurched guests on
Mother’s Day. Pray we will all be welcoming, that the sermon will touch hearts, that we will provide materials for unchurched spouses, children, and friends to explore the Christian faith.

And most of all pray that this Mother’s Day will be one that will bring the greatest joy imaginable to a Mother—the knowledge that those she loves will spend forever with her and Jesus.

For even more motivation to make the most of Mother's Day, please check out this video

Video of How to make the most of the spiritual opportunities of Mothers Day
This video can totally change how your church celebrates Mother's Day and can make it into a time of significant outreach.

Click on the image to go to the video and notes on the Church Communications Training School. Please take time to watch it with your staff and discuss it—it can totally change how you approach Mother's Day. If you are a member of the Church Com Training School you have permission to show this video and make copies of handouts to the staff or any church communicators group you are part of without the rest of them having to be members.