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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; Effective Church Communications can help.

Templates: 1 Corinthians 13 Bulletin Inserts, true love defined

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1 Cor 13 Bulletin Insert
This bulletin insert shares not only how we should love, but reminds us of how God loves us.

First Corinthians 13 is the love chapter of the Bible. Not only does it challenge us with how we should love, but we often forget that the perfect love in this chapter describes how God loves us. Take a minute away from your work to think about that and praise God for its truth.

With those reminders in mind, following are Bulletin inserts (or postcards or however else you want to use them) that quote 1 Corinthians 13 that you can use for Valentine's season or any other time people need a reminder of God's love. On the back of the cards you can put links, lessons, or activities your church has to teach people about God's love.

Below the images of inserts is the ZIP file for Effective Church Communications Members to download both PDFs and editable MS Publisher files. If you aren't a member you won't be able to see the links. For more information and to join Effective Church Communications, CLICK HERE.

Community Outreach for Valentine’s Day—a door hanger sample and a postcard

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Valentines Door Hanger
A door hanger like this is a wonderful way to reach out to your community and invite them to church.

editor's note: I wanted to republish the article below because as I was going through my past articles on Valentine's Day outreach, her ideas are some of the best I've seen. I liked them so much, I created two Template collections for you to make Valentine's Day Outreach Door-hangers and Postcards. The links to them are at the end of the article.

Gayle Hilligoss, our wonderful columnist who writes so many helpful articles for us, also volunteers her time to help the communications at her church.

She recently sent me two WONDERFUL samples and I'm sharing them below. First is her brief explanation of them and then images to inspire you. I LOVE the idea of using door hangers as a Valentine's outreach for your church—what a happy way to invite people!

Gayle's email:

Did I ever send you these? The first is printed on door hanger stock.
We are putting them on 300 houses in a subdivision near the church.

The second is a postcard being sent to prospects, visitors, absentees, etc.
We are printing extras for our members to share as they have opportunity.
A couple of the projects of our new Outreach Team : )

 

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NEW Easter Templates Sets—PREVIEW and early downloads

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This children's invitation is just one of dozens of Easter Templates that are coming.

As part of redoing many things on this site, I'm working on all new TEMPLATES for many Easter Communications. Below is a preview set of:

  • Easter Invitations Motivation flyers to get your congregation planning on who to invite,
  • Congregational Motivation flyers,
  • Children's materials featuring a "church bunny" and including the Jelly Bean Prayer,
  • Easter Connection Cards,
  • Easter Service Follow-up flyer

There will be more in the completed sets that will be released in the coming weeks along with tips on how to make the most of them. The samples below are in both MS Publisher editable files and PDF ready-to-print files. Below is a ZIP file where you can download them.

CLICK the following link to download the ZIP FILE of the Templates for the communications shown below: Preview Files for Easter 2017

CLICK on the first image and then you can see them larger in the Gallery view.

 

Christmas encouragement for church communicators

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Take 2 minutes to watch this short video and remember that because of all the hard work you are doing this Christmas season that heaven will be different.

With my love and prayers for all of you for a wonderful Christmas,
Yvon

FREE Christmas Communications Panic Pack–to connect visitors with your church and Jesus

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Christmas Booklet Cover or Half size Postcards#6
People will join you for Christmas services--be sure you make the most of them.

No matter how stressed out and short of time you are, please take time to read this and download the free publications.

You've work really hard, you've invited people and in addition, tradition and culture encourages people to attend Christmas services.You will get a fantastic turn-out for your Christmas celebrations!

One study showed that though only 29% of people in America regularly attend service (international audience, please forgive, these statistics are for illustration uses only), 65% WILL ATTEND a Christmas church service!

Many people will come who have not visited your church before and who may not plan to come until next Christmas. The communication pieces you give them can make a difference in their eternal destiny--I know you are tired and probably stressed to the limit, but PLEASE take the time to connect them with your church and Jesus.

You don't have an excuse not to because the ones below are ready for you to print and use, PLUS THEY ARE FREE!

Please don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with them and to share Jesus!

I've shared many communication resources with you for Christmas (CLICK HERE to go to all of them) but if you aren't an ECC Member or just discovered this site here are three FREE PDF DOWNLOADS for you. At the end of this article is the link to the ZIP file. They are all ready-to-print and can be personalized on the back. If you want to create your own, use them for inspiration, but be sure you give to Christmas visitors these three communication pieces: [Read more...]