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.
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/
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!
https://www.flor.com/area-rugs/show-all
https://glowsly.com/pantone-fall-2019-colors-trends/
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
Text for the flyer to use however you'd like:
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.
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...]
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.
PLEASE share this with friends, other churches, people who go to your church. [Read more...]
