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.

FREE flyers for the 4th of July and Canada Day–if there was ever a time grace was needed in our political world it is now

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A prayer for Grace for all nations
The materials here share a prayer for Grace for all nations that is desperately needed in our contentious times.

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum on any issue, I think one thing we can all agree on is that as Christians, we most sincerely need to act in GRACE to those we may disagree with from a little bit to a lot.

This is also a time for two nations to celebrate their national holidays and for that, a few years ago I created the flyers here, and PowerPoint slides you can use to commemorate this time.

For all of us, let's remember above all that we are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, our ultimate allegiance is to our Lord Jesus, and He commands us to love each other and grant each other grace as He does for us.

Below is an assortment of free materials to help you share a reminder and prayer for God's Grace for all of us.

Below are the sets of Templates with preview images, click on the title to go to the set you want.

The Templates are in ZIP files (you download them, click to open, hit "extract" and the files are saved and ready for you to use). The link for each set is below the images and the file contains both ready-to-print PDFs and editable MS Publisher files. Some of the ZIP files also have a MS Word file of text if that goes with the set.

Click on any image to enlarge and see more detailed previews. Click on the link below the images to download the Templates to your computer. 

4th of July and Canada Day flyers

CLICK following to download the ZIP FILE: 4th of July & Canada Day Bulletin Insert

Grace for all Nations Slides & Powerpoint

CLICK following to download the ZIP FILE: Grace Prayer for All nations

4th of July God's Grace on America Slides and Powerpoint

CLICK following to download the ZIP FILE: 4th of July Slides

 

Graduates Resources, video preview, new and updated

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This may be your last chance to meaningfully connect with and influence the graduates at your church. Make the most of it with Resources from Effective Church Communications.

The video below is an overview of them and below the video links to specific resources mentioned in it.

Video on Graduation Preview

eBook of Graduate's ResourceseBook in the Effective Church Communications Library

This eBook is FREE and available on the ECC Library along with dozens of other eBooks and downloadable training videos. CLICK HERE to go to the ECC Library--please ignore anything I may not have changed that refers to a cost of the ECC Library.

Prayer for graduatesFree Templates for North Star for Graduates and Prayer for Graduates

CLICK HERE to go to this and other free templates for Graduates.

 

 

Printables for Graduates from the Bibleverse Shop

CLICK HERE to go to an incredible resource where you can download and print out many sizes and varieties of printables.

 

 

Bibleverse t-shirts and mug shopThe Bibleverse t-Shirts and More Shop

CLICK HERE to go to my shop of t-shirts and more for Bible-centered gifts that will encourage your graduates and help support the ministry of Effective Church Communications.

Bulletin inserts or social media content for Father’s Day; poetry, challenges, encouragements

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Dads come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Here is a selection of bulletin inserts that celebrates many of them.

Dad's come in all shapes, sizes, and colors and the selection of Bulletin Inserts here reflects that. The overall theme of the insert is general thankfulness for Fathers and you can put any message, event, challenge, whatever you'd like on the other side.

Below is a gallery of the inserts and below that a ZIP file that contains a ready-to-print PDF, plus editable MS Publisher files of all the inserts.

The content or the entire image can be used in social media in any way you'd like also.

Here is the Gallery of images of the inserts:

Below the images is a text file you can copy to use however you want in your Father's Day communications.

Click here to download the ZIP file with MS Publisher and PDF files:Fathers Day Bulletin Inserts 2017

Text file for the Father's Day Prayer

 

We never outgrow our need for Fathers.

Because we are never too big for

Fathers to stop holding us, nurturing us.

That’s the character of a Father.

Even Jesus, King of Kings, our Lord

Bowed and cried, Abba, Daddy, Father.

Today we thank our heavenly Father for giving us the gift
of earthly Fathers.

 

For Graduates: Celebrate but also challenge

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Free Graduation Prayer
Graduation is a time for celebration, but don't miss out on it as a time to challenge your students.

Warning before reading: this is one of my more cranky blogs, but for what I hope is a good reason. I know that the following challenges to youth programs based primarily on fun and positive messages do not describe all youth programs, and please forgive me if your program takes equipping youth with Biblical values and a passion to serve Jesus seriously. However, in the lives of the teens close to me I see very little of this today. It makes me especially sad because I know it doesn't have to be like that. I was a youth leader for many years and even then I often doubted if I was doing the right thing because my program was not the most fun one around. It was filled with lots of Bible lessons, challenges, active service to the poor, mission awareness, and very high expectations. It was a large group, friends were invited, the church was pleased—all the outward measures of success were there—but I still wondered if I did the right thing being so hard on my kids. The years have passed. The kids in my group have gone on to become pastors, staff in Christian organizations, community and government leaders reflecting Biblical values. I know many things made them who they are, but I pray their time in the not-always-the-most-fun youth group contributed to it. With a current prayer that this cranky blog may prove beneficial, I offer it to you. You have been warned. 

Celebrate, but also challenge your graduates

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Do more than celebrate! A Free eBook: Strategy for Father’s Day and preview of all resources

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Fathers Day Strategy ebookOn Father's Day, we naturally want to celebrate Dads and we should!

But we can also use this holiday to do more. In Ephesians it tells us to "make the most of our time," and on Father's Day, we also use it as a time to encourage the men in our church to grow spiritually and to connect with resources that will help them become the Father and the disciple Jesus wants them to be.

This eBook is an overview of the strategies and resources that can help you do this. It is available as a free download at this link:  https://payhip.com/b/N4M9n

And here is a quick overview video of it:

This link will take you to the Effective Church Communications Library, a FREE (or Pay-What-You-Want) resource that has an ever-growing library of eBooks and training videos that will help you become a more effective church communicator. This free eBook is an example of some of the materials that are and will be on the site.

What I am doing with eBooks like this is taking a topic, in this instance, Father's Day, and pulling together both new and past materials on it, plus the resources I have for you in one easy-to-access downloadable resource.

Already on the site are class materials from the Effective Church Communications ministry such as the eBooks, The Five Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing, Successful Seasonal Celebrations, and Challenges for Church Communicators (formerly Devotions for Church Communicators). [Read more...]