Effective Church Communications

Templates: Valentine’s Day Outreach Postcard with room for Church Info

31 January, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

The following set of Templates was inspired by the article by Gayle Hilligoss and the postcards she created for Valentine's Day outreach for her church. The ones I created prior to seeing her wonderful creations filled the entire front of the card and assumed you would personalize them on the back. I loved her idea of having all the information on the front (much easier to print, etc.) and so I created some templates for you to modify and use in your church.

You could use these as postcards or hand-out invitations. The church office can print them and then put in 5 in each bulletin on Sunday. From the pulpit encourage the congregation to pray and send or hand them out. If you have a special Valentine's Day event (dessert buffet of chocolate is what we did one year, it was a big hit), give the details of that on the back.

Below are images of the cards and below them is the ZIP File to download and modify for your churches.

Postcards with room for personalization

To download the editable ZIP file for the cards above, click the following link: Valentine Cards quarter page with church info

FREE Christmas Templates for outreach, congregational motivation, evangelistic Christmas letter and more!

13 December, 2017 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

This FREE Christmas Template can be used either as a postcard to invite people to your Christmas services or as a cover for your Christmas programs.

For those of you who aren't familiar with our TEMPLATES I put together a selection of Christmas Templates from different communication pieces, but that can be printed on the same size of paper ( 8 1/2 x 11) to demonstrate how easy it is to use them and modify them.

Just like in our Template section, below are pictures of what is included. Below that is a ZIP file of designs in both PDF and MS Publisher format and below that is a brief video that shows you what to do with them.

A selection of Christmas TEMPLATES

Though we have many more communication pieces that aren't represented here (invitation cards, connection cards, follow-up postcards, etc.) these will help your church share the message of salvation in Jesus this Christmas season. You have my permission to pass them on to any church or group you'd like.

Each sample type illustrated has a variety of additional designs in our TEMPLATE section.

To download this selection of Templates in both PDF and editable MS Publisher formats click the following link: CHRISTMAS TEMPLATE SAMPLE SET

Video preview and briefly how to edit the Templates

Fall Event Registration Cards to make sure people come back to church after your outreach event

16 October, 2017 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Fall outreach events typically get large turnouts from your community and here is a tool that will help bring them back to church after the event.

More than a connection card, which people have little reason to fill out at a fun, outreach event, this card is a REGISTRATION for a DOOR PRIZE.

For fall you might fill a big pumpkin with lots of candy and other goodies or a basket of local treats. Do something that is colorful and impressive and have it at a table as people come in, consider using eye-catching table runners, at CV Linens you can find table liners cheap products. Invite them to fill out the card for a drawing. Don't make them have to stay for it if you are doing the drawing at the end of the event and you'll get more cards filled out.

The content on the card is designed for unchurched people and here is what it says:

We are so glad you’re here! Please take a minute to fill out this card so you can be entered into our door-prize drawing and so that we have a record of your attendance and a way to contact you about future events for your family. Be assured this information will not be shared or used outside the church office and you can have your names removed from the list at any time by calling the church office.

It lets them know you will be contacting them again, assures them it is for church use only and lets them know they can have their name removed from your list at any time. At the same time you get all the information you need to follow up with social media or postcards.

Below are a set of designs FREE and are ready to download, print, and use.

The ZIP file below contains a ready-to-print PDFs, editable MS Publisher files and jpeg files of each design. If you aren't a Member of Effective Church Communications, you won't be able to see the download. CLICK HERE for Membership Information or to sign up.

CLICK the link following to download the ZIP FILE for Fall Registration Cards: Fall Event Registration Cards

Templates—New and Easier Access to save time and your sanity!

8 February, 2017 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Church Communications Templates are a great resource and one of the best benefits of membership in Effective Church Communications. Check out these videos to be able to access them.

Templates are one of the most useful resources we offer because the all these things are done for you: communication concept, selection of artwork, typeface, layout and the ministry text. They have been the most popular part of Effective Church Communications for years but once people downloaded them initially, it was difficult to find them again.

That was my fault because though I knew you could access them through looking up the category they were under, even if you remembered that, it still took searching through articles to find the template link if all you wanted was to just grab some invitation cards or connection cards for a particular holiday. That has all changed!

I finally came up with a process where I have a system for you to easily find and download Templates.

The video below explains it. Following this short video is a longer one that shows you how Templates work, how to modify them and where to find them.

Two of the most useful things about the Effective Church Communication Templates are:

You do not need Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign to modify them. They are primarily in MS Publisher, which is an easy-to-use program found in most church offices.

You can DOWNLOAD the Templates, you don't have to work on-line. That makes it easy to take them home and work anywhere without relying on the internet.

Check out the videos below. If you are not a member of Effective Church Communications, CLICK HERE--this is one of the best benefits and our very reasonable membership cost will more than pay for the time you save!

Templates, New & Easier Access!

Templates, an Overview

Templates: 1 Corinthians 13 Bulletin Inserts, true love defined

2 February, 2017 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

1 Cor 13 Bulletin Insert — This bulletin insert shares not only how we should love, but reminds us of how God loves us.

First Corinthians 13 is the love chapter of the Bible. Not only does it challenge us with how we should love, but we often forget that the perfect love in this chapter describes how God loves us. Take a minute away from your work to think about that and praise God for its truth.

With those reminders in mind, following are Bulletin inserts (or postcards or however else you want to use them) that quote 1 Corinthians 13 that you can use for Valentine's season or any other time people need a reminder of God's love. On the back of the cards you can put links, lessons, or activities your church has to teach people about God's love.

Below the images of inserts is the ZIP file for Effective Church Communications Members to download both PDFs and editable MS Publisher files. If you aren't a member you won't be able to see the links. For more information and to join Effective Church Communications, CLICK HERE.