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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.

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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Templates: Valentines for believers, remember how much Jesus loves you!

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Valentines Encouragement Cards
Sometimes we forget how much God loves us--these cards will help us remember.

Sometimes before we can share the love of Jesus with others, we need to be reminded of it ourselves. Below is a set of Valentines Cards to encourage believers in Jesus how much he loves us and how we should love others.

The set is free and is in a downloadable ZIP file after the images. The ZIP files contains both PDF images and the original editable MS Publisher file.

The message below can be printed on the back of the cards, or used in other ways for Valentine's Day Outreach:

Valentine’s Day is supposed to be all about love—but, truth be told—it is often about disappointment.

Disappointment comes from human love, which may be wonderful, but somehow
always seems to fall short of our expectations and dreams.

We may blame it on Hollywood and the media, on unrealistic images, unobtainable fantasies, on novels and dreams. But, though our expectations and dreams may have flawed foundations, maybe it isn’t bad to be disappointed in human love.

Maybe it is a realistic reminder that we can never expect human love to fill the place in the human heart only God can fill.

When we realize that God loves us unconditionally, totally, fully, when we rest and rejoice in that, an interesting thing happens. . . . . .

The human love we get from imperfect humans isn’t disappointing anymore. Because God loves us in our imperfections, stumbles, and short-comings, He can help us love others as they really are, not as fantasies, but as real people as flawed as we all are.

When we accept and give His love, it’s a Valentine better than chocolate—relationships not built on disappointing dreams, but on honest, satisfying, acceptance of each other.

Images of the Valentine's Day Cards:

To download the ZIP file of the images in PDF format and MS Publisher format, CLICK the following link: Valentine Cards quarter page Believer encouragements

 

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...]