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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.

Mother’s Day Resource List

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From motivational videos and e-books to invitations, postcards, bulletin inserts and one of our most motivations pieces for prayer, Effective Church Communications has materials for you. We have ideas and samples, ready to print PDFs, editable templates, graphics, everything you need for outreach and celebration for Mother's Day at your church.

Following each area is described, just click on the title to go to that selection.

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VIDEO: Mother's Day, communications that will help you make the most of the outreach opportunities, Webinar On-Demand

Take a few minutes to watch this and you'll never look at Mother's Day at your church in the same way.

Mother's Day has the third highest attendance of any Sunday and it isn't because of all the mothers there. It's because of the unchurched spouses and kids who come with mom!

This is a fantastic day for outreach, but you have to intentionally make the most of it. Below is a short video that will give you great ideas on how to do this. I STRONGLY recommend you take a few minutes in your staff meeting to discuss this and plan how you can make the most of this day for outreach.

Included with the video is a PDF of the handouts for the presentation. [Read more...]

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