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.

Video and notes: Tips for using COLOR in text

By Leave a Comment

Video: Tips for using COLOR in text
This video will help you make sure that your colored text not only looks good but is readable.

We might like how a color looks in an illustration, but the same color that might make a design appealing, might also make the message unreadable if we use that color in text. This short video will give you tips on how to use color in the text of your communications. The text is the most important part of any communication because that is the primary carrier of your message. It doesn't matter how pretty or inspiring an illustration is if people don't come to the event or learn what you want them to. [Read more...]

Image editing excerpt from the video: Money and Time Saving Tips for Church Communications

By Leave a Comment

This video is excerpted from the longer one: Money and Time Saving Tips for Church Communications

I created it because I realized after finishing the longer video that the part I think if most useful is this part that shows how I modified the images. If I was looking at the program again, I'd want to just focus on this and so I chopped up the video to make it easier to view that way.

Following are links for material related to the video, just click on the title to go to them:

[Read more...]

Free Microsoft Clip Art and how to make the most of it

By 1 Comment

The Microsoft website has some of the most incredible clipart available or use in your church communication projects and it's all FREE! In addition to the free clipart, it has one of the most useful and fun to use search engines that allows you to find similar clipart, either in style or subject matter.

Both of these features are demonstrated on the video that follows.Below the standard resolution video is an HD video for Effective Church Communication Members.

Following are links for material related to the video, just click on the title to go to them:

Don’t try too hard to be cool, what a kid’s video teaches us all

By Leave a Comment

My initial purpose in sharing this was to introduce you to Worship House Kids, a wonderful resource for multimedia resources for children's ministry. But as I was looking around the site, I found this video (CLICK HERE to go to the link--it is a FREE download) and can't encourage you enough to look at it.

Yes,  it has a great message for children, but an equally important one for all church communicators about the importance of simply being yourself, loving Jesus and doing your best to communicate Him to your world. We can make ourselves crazy trying to copy one trend or another, one graphic style or another, getting the latest technology tool or whatever else we think we must do to be a successful communicator when we forget to make sure the website is  updated, that people know childcare is provided for the small groups, and the multitude of not-exciting, but essential details we need to include to make sure people actually connect to life-changing church events.

Don't worry too much about your communications reflecting the latest cool style, but pray without ceasing that they reflect the love of Jesus.

Enjoy the video and do check out the website: http://www.worshiphousekids.com/--lots of great stuff there for your children's ministry (and us big people too).

ebook: Back to Basics, writing and design skills for church communicators

By Leave a Comment

Back to basics cover
This book will teach you the basics of many needed, but often not taught, communication skills in graphics, design, typography, writing, and managing. If you want your church communications to look more professional, you need this book. Available in print and ebook formats.

Most people who work on communication creation in churches have no training in design, layout, typography, and many related skills they need to do a good job. Training material is not easy to find because many of the materials available on communication design and related areas, require the use of expensive, advanced software and teach a secular, image-heavy approach that doesn't always fit the needs of the church audience.

This book provides basic training that can help every church communicator, even those with no previous graphic arts training create, write for, and manage a church communication ministry. This book is not a how-to on a particular software, but about the basic design and communication principles that form the foundation of effective communication creation.

This book is a scanned reprint of Yvon Prehn's earlier book, How to use your computer to create Better Bulletins, Newsletters, and More! All the examples in the book are from church communications and the advice is practical and Bible-inspired.

To be honest, the quality of the scans in the book isn't the greatest, but I felt the content was worth it to make this book available to you.

To buy a paperback version of the book on Amazon.com, CLICK HERE.

If you'd like the book in e-book, PDF format CLICK HERE