Effective Church Communications

Canada Day bulletin insert on GRACE for the nation and one for the U. S.

17 June, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Georgia Bamber, an ECC Member, sent me a GREAT example of modification of the bulletin insert and prayer for the 4th of July that used the acronym GRACE as a prayer for America. She took the same idea and applied it to Canada Day!

She was then kind enough to send me a PDF of her creation which I've attached as a PDF and which you can download by clicking on the image at the beginning of the article.

4th of July Bulletin Insert — Georgia took this publication and modified it to apply for Canada Day.

You have both my permission and my encouragement to do the same for your country. Make it your own—modify the text and the headers to apply to where you live.Use this to remind your people who God wants all nations to experience His grace and to remind your people to pray for it.

Here are the words on the flyer that you can use as a prayer guide, bulletin insert, or an encouragement to pray for your nation either at your national celebration like Canada Day or the 4th of July or anytime your people need a reminder of the need for God's grace in the affairs of our world. If you do one for another country, please send me a copy and I'll pass it on! Send to: yvon@effectivechurchcom.com.

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Welcome slides for Father’s Day

4 May, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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

4 May, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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

16 April, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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.