Effective Church Communications

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators. 

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators.
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Get a head start on Fall Communications—many FREE TEMPLATES to inspire you

2 September, 2019 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Fall festival card
This is just one of the fall templates free for you-there are many more in the Template Section.

No matter how you decide to hold outreach fall events this year, the following generic templates might be useful.

Following the Link are images of the Templates. They are in both ready-to-print PDF format (where you can personalize them on the back) and editable MS Publisher files.

HERE is the link to the FALL Templates: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/templates/templates-harvest-festival-and-halloween/

 

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Filed Under: Fall Festival and Halloween Tagged With: church fall festival templates, Free editable fall temples for churches, Free Fall Church Outreach Templates, Harvest festival templates

Color and Design Trends for Fall 2019

11 August, 2019 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

We all need inspiration and this week I got a catalog in the mail that greatly inspired me with new designs and color combinations. I decided the best way to tell you about it (it is about visual design after all) was to do a little video, which I did and which is below.

Below the video are links to the websites I reference in the video.

Enjoy!

Links to the sites shown in the video:

https://www.flor.com/

https://www.flor.com/area-rugs/show-all

https://glowsly.com/pantone-fall-2019-colors-trends/

https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/fashion-color-trend-report/fashion-color-trend-report-london-autumn-winter-2019-2020

https://www.thezoereport.com/p/pink-is-fall-2019s-most-unexpected-color-trend-were-very-here-for-it-15958267

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Filed Under: ECC VIDEOS, Fall Festival and Halloween Tagged With: church communication design ideas for fall 2019, color trends for fall 2019, Design trends

A non-scary way to share your faith at Fall Festivals and Halloween

16 October, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Use Halloween to share your faith
Halloween and Fall Festivals are a great time to share your faith that isn't scary! Use these flyers to encourage your church to make the most of it.

Halloween is a fantastic time for outreach and many churches make the most of it with Trunk or Treat, a Fall Festival and similar outreach activities.

In addition to that, it can also be a great time to encourage your people to invite their friends to these events. To do that, I did up a flyer or bulletin insert that encourages your congregation to use this time of year and the events of your church as a great time to share their faith. Below are images of the flyer, a podcast that I did for it, and below that the text of the flyer you can use in whatever way you want.

Click the link that follows to download a ZIP file of the flyers: Halloween-Invite-to-Church PDF Halloween Sharing

Podcast that talks about the handout and how to use it:

Text for the flyer to use however you'd like:

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Filed Under: Fall Festival and Halloween Tagged With: Fall Festival Evangelism, Free evangelism encouragement, free Halloween outreach materials, Halloween church outreach

How to get visitors at special events to give you their contact information and how to respond when they do

29 March, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Sign in Card for Fall Event
Use a card like this if you want people to return to your church after special events.

When your church hosts special events this should be the start of a relationship, not simply a one-time visit. But to make that happen you need to get your visitor's contact information. Following is a process you can use to get that information, samples of communications that will do it and follow-up cards after the events. There is a generic one and also examples for fall outreach and one for Christmas.

The big question is—how to make that happen?

One of the best ways we've found to do that is to have a drawing for a special prize related to your event and ask people to register for it. You can be very upfront that you will be using the information to contact them and that, if at any time they want to be removed from your mailing list, it isn't a problem. You don't want to hide your purpose and most people don't mind when you let them know the details upfront. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Church Connection Cards, Fall Festival and Halloween Tagged With: Fall church outreach, fall outreach visitor cards, how to get visitors to return after outreach events

FREE for everyone! An invitation to church with your Trick or Treat Candies

18 October, 2017 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Halloween Invite to Church p6
Put an invitation to church with your Halloween treats and see how the Lord might use it!

Hundreds of children will be coming to your doors this Halloween—why not take this opportunity to invite them to church? Below are some cards that can help you do this.

I'm making this file FREE for everyone because it's exciting to think about what might happen if many of you make up hundreds of these cards and give them to the children of all ages who come to your homes on Halloween.

Here is how it works:

  • Below the images is a ZIP file containing the cards.
  • It has PDFs of business-card size invitations back to church. They are fairly generic because I wanted you to not have to do anything, but print them off and on the back side you can create a personalized message for your church.
  • In addition to the PDFs, I also enclosed the editable MS Publisher file so if you want to change the wording or put info about your church on the front you can.

PLEASE share this with friends, other churches, people who go to your church. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Children's ministry, Church Business Cards, Church Invitation Cards, Fall Festival and Halloween Tagged With: alternative Halloween celebrations, church Halloween cards, Halloween invitations to church

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