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Postcards for Kids! A great way to encourage families to come back-to-church this fall!

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Kids Back to Church Postcard
Kids love to get mail addressed to them personally. Why not create postcards inviting them to Sunday School this fall?

Kids love to get mail especially in the days of almost all electronic communications and social media. A letter or postcard addressed to them is something very special because they almost NEVER get anything like this.

To celebrate fall and back to school and church time, I have a GREAT set of postcards for you to share with the kids in your church! They are in both full color to print on full-color printers and separated spot color for you to print with your in-house inkjets, laser printers, or a RISO Digital Duplicator or similar technology.

From inspiration to practical implementation

Kids back to church postcards PDF Files_Page_05What follows is a set of postcards for Fall, but you can use this idea any time of the year when you want to give a little boost to attendance at your children's ministry or to advertise a special event.

At the end of this article, you can download a ZIP file that has PDFs like the one to the left that are ready to print for all the cards, plus you also get the original, editable MS Publisher file so you can modify them any way you like for your church.

Just put the child's name on the front and on the back add in all the details of your children's program at church, print and you are set to go.

 

Following are images of all the cards

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Color and Design Trends for Fall 2019

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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

Don’t let August vacations include times away from church–FREE POSTCARD reminders to help

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Summer postcard
A little reminder may be all someone needs to get them to return to church instead of taking a vacation from it!

August is the last month of vacation for many and in many churches the time when attendance drops to an all-time low.

Though understandable, sometimes all people need is a reminder that God doesn't take a vacation and neither does the church. The set of postcards here are part of a FREE ZIP file (link below the images) that you could send out to people who perhaps have been sporadic in their attendance during the summer. The cards are upbeat and encouraging and an easy way to let people know you are thinking about them.

You could also make up extra cards for members of the congregation to address and send to friends that they know may have missed church in the summer.

The FREE ZIP file below the images has ready-to-print PDFs of the cards, an editable MS Publisher file, and images of the cards you could use on your website or email newsletters.

Click the following link to download the cards above: SUMMER POSTCARDS church reminder

Back-to-church invite cards for late summer events–Free Templates and PDFs

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Summer Back to Church Invitation Card
If you are holding a summer community outreach event, these cards are essential to bring visitors back to your church.

Many churches hold end-of-the-summer events. Ours ours does a Lemon Festival with a free community BBQ and a huge lemon dessert contest. We are a neighborhood church that was built in a former lemon grove and the festival is a fun and fitting way to invite the community to the church one more time.

If your church is doing something like that, make the most of the event by giving everyone an invitation card that invites them back to church. If you are truly reaching out to people who don't normally attend church, they have no idea what else you do or when you do it.

A card that gives details and links to your website and social media can make all the difference.

Below are some FREE templates for you to use to make business-card size back-to-church reminder cards and you can personalize them by putting your information on the back. The ZIP File for them has a ready-to-print PDF, plus editable MS Publisher files and image files in hi and low resolutions.

To download the ZIP file that contains the cards above, click this link: Back to church invite cards for summer events

Please take a few minutes to make up something like this for your end-of-summer events, it can make all the difference for a guest who needs to find the Lord.

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For more SUMMER Templates: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/templates/summer-themed-templates/

DON’T EVER HOST A MONEY-DIVIDED EVENT!!!!

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Don't let your event pricing hurt children
We don't ever want a child to be embarrassed or left out because of our insensitive pricing at a church summer event.

Ed. note: this is an excerpt from a longer article on summer communication strategy, but I feel the topic is so important, I wanted to post it on it's own.

Yes, that is all caps and I am shouting. I'm going to sound very harsh now, but I feel strongly about this and I think the extensive Biblical support for caring for the "least of these" and being concerned about the poor supports my concern.

Here is the situation I've seen in the PR of some churches (and as is the habit of our ministry, we don't name names of bad examples):

  • The church hosts a summer event but states clearly (or sometimes not at all, which is horrid) that everyone is welcome to free popcorn and punch, but there will be a charge for hotdogs and burgers.
  • Or there will be free chips and salsa, but there is a significant charge for tacos.

How do you think that feels for a family that might have taken a huge step to go to the event they heard that was going on at the church  but they have four kids who would love a hotdog or a taco, but then they find out that there is a charge for food (popcorn and chips do not a meal make) and they simply don't have the money for it. What will they do? [Read more...]