Effective Church Communications

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.

Connection Card Sample of Privacy Statement

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Privacy Statemenet for Connection Card for Easter
A privacy statement such as the one here on your connection cards can make visitors feel better about filing them out.

People today are understandably nervous about sharing information, even with a church. One of our ECC Members, Karen Thomas, sent in this sample of the back of her Easter Connection Card with a very reassuring privacy statement. A statement such as this one may make visitors feel more comfortable about sharing information with you.

The text is below and you can copy and print it for your Connection Cards.

Click on the image to download the PDF for a closer look.

Privacy statement for the back of Connection Cards:

Privacy statement: Any information given on this sheet is confidential and will be shared only with the appropriate church staff. It will not be used in any way for commercial purposes. It will be used to communicate with you. Prayer requests or comments that are marked confidential will be given to the Pastor. All other prayer requests will be reproduced and distributed to the prayer warriors. Non-confidential comments will be passed on to the appropriate leaders. If you want to be removed from the mailing list, contact the church office.

Please send in your samples to share!

We are so grateful to Karen for sending in her sample of the Connection Card Privacy Statement.

After Easter or anytime, please send in your samples to share with other Church Communicators—we really do learn best from each other. Please CLICK HERE to go to our Great Idea Swap where you can share your ideas. We really appreciate it!

Easter is a great time to create a church overview booklet

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Many people will visit your church on Easter who will have no idea what your church does on a regular basis. If you want to fully inform them about your church, consider creating a Church Overview Booklet.

This is a lot of work, but it can have positive results for many months to come. Below is a PDF that explains them in more detail and gives examples of some.


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Christian Post interviews Yvon Prehn about How to get people to come back to church after Christmas and Easter

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How to get people back to church
Lots of people attend church for holiday events--here is advice to get them to come back on a continuing basis.

How to get the people who come to church on Christmas and Easter to return and to begin to attend on a regular basis is one of the biggest challenges for churches. The holidays offer great opportunities for people visit the church, but attending church twice a year seldom results in any significant spiritual decision or life-change.

For ideas on how to change that with suggestions from Ed Setzer of LifeWay and Yvon Prehn of Effective Church Communications, check out this article:

How to Keep the 'Chreasters' Coming: Experts Say Preparedness and Follow-Up Are Key

Read the full article at http://www.christianpost.com/news/how-to-keep-the-chreasters-coming-experts-say-preparedness-and-follow-up-are-key-92773/#y7QhYTt0IoGqsdbA.99

Tips for a productive New Year in the church office, part one

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Article by Gayle Hilligoss

The start of a new year is a good time both to reflect and to project—a time to look back and consider what you’ve experienced and learned, a time to look ahead to where you will go next. One sure sign of personal progress is the realization that you not only know smart things, but that you do those smart things. You will know, feel, when it happens. The difference is beyond measure.

• Put first things first.

Sometimes we stay so busy doing the good that we neglect the best. Pray for wisdom to know what is truly important to you. Then give your time, energy, and love to those things first. Unless you make a deliberate effort to set priorities and to stick with them, your days will be filled 
with other people’s priorities and not your own.

• Respect time.

Understand that time is the most precious resource you have; without it you have nothing. Spend your hours and your minutes wisely. Plan your days rather than just letting them happen.• Stay calm.

Know what matters—and be passionate about those things. Know what doesn’t matter—and don’t let those things get you down. You know you are becoming more mature when you control your emotions instead of allowing them to control you.

• Take care of yourself.

Your body is a gift from God; being as fit as you can be is a testimony in itself. Eat wisely, exercise, get suffcient rest, schedule regular checkups. Don’t allow lesser activities to keep you from a daily walk. Commit to some healthy extras: swimming, biking, whatever you like. Few of us do all we could or should. But we can!

• Nourish your mind.

God’s world is a wondrous place. Learn something new every single day. Today, look at a flower and be amazed. Tonight, go outside and gaze at the stars. Tomorrow, visit the library and check out books on a subject you know nothing about. Or use the Internet to travel a new part of the world. Talk with someone—and not on a cell phone. Think new thoughts. Grow wise.

Now you know smart things. And you can do them!

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Incarnation-a continuing challenge and model for church communication at Christmas and always

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Jesus, God incarnate
In the Incarnation, Jesus, became flesh. In a similar way, if we do our job well, we can incarnate, make flesh the words of eternal life to our communities.

"The Word became Flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1:14).

The ethereal became earthly, the intangible became touchable when Jesus became flesh and blood. That's why we celebrate Christmas. In a similar way, your church communications help make the intangible realities of your church flesh and blood in the lives of the people in your church and those you want to reach. A grief recovery workshop helps no one until the materials announcing it are created and responded to. The greatest youth program involves no one until postcards and email tell the teenagers of the dates, times, and locations of meetings. The most inspiring conference helps no one if the church is empty because no one took time to promote it professionally and prayerfully.

To help our communications be effective in making the message of Christianity tangible and touchable in our world at Christmas and always, let's look at the Incarnation, at Jesus becoming flesh and blood, for inspiration on ways to lead and to make our communications real and response-producing in the lives of people we want to reach. [Read more...]