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Strategy for summer communications, remember visitors, delete hidden jargon, don’t host a money-divided event

15 June, 2024 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Summer Image
Your church will have visitors this summer, be sure your communications make sense to them.

LINK to FREE Summer Templates is at the end of this article

Looking ahead to planning summer communications, this summer your church will get lots of visitors, some of whom are friends of church members who might not regularly go to church, others may be from the surrounding community, and we can't forget out-of-town visitors. This is a wonderful opportunity to reach out with the gospel and the love of Jesus and here are some strategic tips to help your communications make the most of this opportunity and some strong cautions about what not to do.

Jargon watch

We know we shouldn’t use church jargon terms like justification and sanctification in our church bulletin, web, or social media when we are writing for people visiting our church, but so much of our church jargon we don’t even see. Using acronyms we don't explain, talking about events that we do year after year and assume everyone knows about, insider jokes, assuming people know times and locations—all these things are confusing and unkind to someone visiting. We don't want our language to keep someone with a free night in our city to miss out on an opportunity to learn about Jesus.

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Filed Under: Blog, Fourth of July & Summer celebrations, Outreach Samples, Strategy, Strategy #2: Make the most of seasonal events—grow your church in numbers AND your people in discipleship Tagged With: communicate with visitors, summer communications, visitor friendly church communications

Summer seasonal PR for 4th of July and Summer Events

2 June, 2024 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

This entry has a number of materials that are useful for connecting with people for special summer events.

One is a bulletin insert that takes the line from the song, "America, America, God shed his grace on thee," and turns the word GRACE into a prayer. It is useful for our American audience, but we haven't forgotten the members and visitors to this site who do not live in America.

In addition is a Postcard for summer outreach and a fantastic brisket recipe. The Summer outreach postcard will work for any summer event (personalize with your own details on the back); the Brisket recipe is a great handout or give-away card for any time of the year.

This entry also contains a download link for a zip file of the jpg images and ready-to-print PDFs for all three of the publications illustrated below. It also contains editable MS Publisher files for both the Summer postcard and the Brisket Recipe. It does not have an editable MS Publisher file for the 4th of July insert because I did not have permission to do that with the artwork I used.

You can download just the PDF of the 4th of July Bulletin insert, by clicking here or on the flyer image.

Below the images is the link to the ZIP file of all the publications:

Here are the images in the file:
4th of July imageRefreshing postcard imageBBQ recipe card

To download the ZIP file that contains all the jpgs, PDFs, and MS Publisher Files, click on the link below.

 

 

Click here to download the ZIP file. Save it to your hard drive and click to open it and use the files.

 

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Filed Under: Fourth of July & Summer celebrations Tagged With: 4th of July flyer, church marketing, church outreach, Communications, recipe cards, yvon prehn

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

1 June, 2024 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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.
  • Below is an assortment of free materials to help you share a reminder and prayer for God's Grace for all of us.
  • 4th of July and Canada Day flyers
  • Grace for all Nations Slides & Powerpoint
  • 4th of July God's Grace on America Slides and Powerpoint

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

4th of July Prayer for God's Grace on us

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

 

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Filed Under: Fourth of July & Summer celebrations Tagged With: 4th of July free handout, Canada Day free handout, templates for national holidays

Graduates Resources, video preview, new and updated

17 May, 2024 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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.

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

15 May, 2024 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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.

 

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