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; Effective Church Communications can help.

Manage your church communication team well

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Manage your church staff well
Manage your church staff well--here are some tips to help you.

This article is for church leaders and those who oversee church communicators. You are responsible for the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of the people who create your communications. Their job is vital to the growth and success of the church, but often they do their job under very difficult circumstances.

Please consider the following suggestions to help you effectively pastor and shepherd these vital members of your church team. They do so much for the church, following is what you can do for them:

Realize the important place communications and church communicators play in the overall strategic success of your church

"What people haven't heard about they can't take action about. Uncommunicated issues DON'T EXIST." Stuart Brand

"Why is communication so vitally important to the health and vitality of the local church? Communication is the means by which we reach our ministry goals. You cannot find a healthy, growing church that is plagued by ineffective communications. Such an animal simply does not exist. If your church is going to maximize its potential, it is  imperative that you understand the communication process and constantly strive to upgrade how well you and others in your church communicate."
George Barna, Marketing the Church

No matter how Bible-based, prayed over and passionate you are about your vision for the church, if it is not sequentially, clearly, consistently, and repeatedly communicated to your church, it will not happen. Today, the role of your church communicator in making your vision real has grown in importance because of two primary reasons: [Read more...]

Why you shouldn’t plan too far ahead in church communications

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Plan ahead in your church communications, but do so cautiously.
Plan ahead in your church communications, but do so with wisdom and prayer.

At the start of the year, it's natural to want to do some planning, but planning can be both a positive and a negative thing. It's always challenging as I was reminded when several churches have asked how to create a communication plan for the next five to seven years. Each of them has mentioned that new technology can be costly and they want to be prepared, in their budgeting and for training. Though I admire their desire to be good stewards, planning ahead for five years in church communications, especially when it involves trying to figure out technology needs, is futile.

Could you have envisioned your communication world today five years ago?

Think about it. Five years ago, could you:

  • Have  imagined or planned for the iPhone and iPad?
  • Known texting would be a major way your youth group would communicate and your youth pastor would need a high-end mobile phone?
  • Have known that skill with Facebook  would be useful, if not essential, when you hire a church secretary?
  • Imagined that Tweeting would be a skill your senior Pastor might want to learn? Even known the meaning of Tweeting or that social media in any form would be able to overturn governments and raise millions for charity? [Read more...]

Book: Church Communications Planning, Measuring, Evaluating done a new way—big is busted, try tiny!

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Planning before and evaluating after any church event are essential for honesty in church communication ministries.

Today churches have extravagant images, powerful design, and extraordinary technology to advertise our message, but in spite of those tools, the Christian faith is declining in much of the world. Though we don't want to discount any of these tools perhaps we need to take another look at the foundational skills of Planning, Measuring and Evaluating our work.

The book Church Communications Planning, Measuring, Evaluating done a new way—big is busted, try tiny! has practical training on planning, measuring, and evaluating to help you make sure that your time and money spent in creating church communications accomplishes the goals of your church.

The book first looks at the details of planning that form the foundation of a solid church communication program. It then goes into the use of FORMS that will help you gather and organize the facts and the information people need to connect with your ministry or event. The forms will also help you measure and evaluate your communications and enable you to understand what is really effective and what isn’t in your ministry communications and marketing.

This approach works in any size church, with any budget. While much extravagant multimedia is only possible on a big budget, any church can make use of the tiny, but significant tips, ideas, and changes suggested in this book to make a significant difference in the impact of your communications.

For immediate download of a PDF of the book, CLICK ON the button below.

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Planning forms, ready-to-print PDFs & editable MS Publisher Files

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This is the cover for the set of ready-to-print PDFs.

This set of  forms is an invaluable help in planning and tracking your church communications. These are the forms that are  shown in the videos and books on Planning. The Forms are FREE for ECC MEMBERS (click link at the bottom of this article) or for sale for anyone in an immediately downloadable ZIP format for $7.50.

The ZIP FILE contains TWO SETS:

1) A set of ready-to-print PDFs. Anyone can download and print these--you don't need to have any special program.

2) Editable templates of the forms in MS Publisher. You need MS Publisher to be able to open and modify these templates. If you have it and are familiar with it,  not having to do the basic layout of the templates will save you many hours of work! All you have to do is personalize or change them if you want to and you have them on computer files in your office.

The files are for planning your communications and for evaluation and recording follow up. They are the forms that were used in the Planning Video and Forms Video. Consistent use of these forms will help you honestly evaluate your communication program and give you an objective measure for success. For information on how to become an ECC MEMBER and have access to many more editable files, ebooks and more for only $9.99 a month or $99 a year, CLICK HERE.

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This shows the cover for the overview that goes with the set of MS Publisher Templates. Please read through this as it shows an overview of the templates.

You have permission to use them as many times or however you want throughout your church.

Click on the ADD TO CART button below to purchase.

You will receive an email back immediately with your download. Download the ZIP file. Save it to your hard drive and then simply click to "unzip" it. You do not need any additional software to do this.

ZIP file of Church Communications Forms

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 Below is the FREE ZIP file of all these forms in both PDF and editable format for Effective Church Communication Members

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the Zip File.

SAVE to your computer (on your desktop makes it easy to find). Click to open and use. ***Remember you must have MS Publisher to modify the templates. They will open in MS Publisher.

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