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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.

Templates: “Save the Date” Postcard, Bulletin Inserts, or Flyers

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A member of Effective Church Communications asked if I had any "Save the Date" postcards templates. I didn't but I created some in response to her request.

Of course there is very little text on them as each church needs to add their own content, but you can do that in the MS Publisher file that is part of the ZIP file at the end of this post.

I made these half of an 8 1/2 by 11 page size so they could be printed used as either church bulletin inserts, flyers, or postcards. Often these will be posted on the refrigerator as a reminder so be sure to keep the most important information on one side of the card.

They are in a variety of styles for various ages and groups.

PLEASE let me know what church template sets you want to see created. I can't promise how quickly I will do them, but part of this site reorganization I'm doing is to organize and create more templates. Email me with what would be useful to you at yvon@effectivechurchcom.com.

Below is the free ZIP file that has the editable MS Publisher file and PDFs of the cards.

 

CLICK on the following link to download the ZIP file of the Postcards: Save the Date Cards

 

NEW Easter Templates Sets—PREVIEW and early downloads

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This children's invitation is just one of dozens of Easter Templates that are coming.

As part of redoing many things on this site, I'm working on all new TEMPLATES for many Easter Communications. Below is a preview set of:

  • Easter Invitations Motivation flyers to get your congregation planning on who to invite,
  • Congregational Motivation flyers,
  • Children's materials featuring a "church bunny" and including the Jelly Bean Prayer,
  • Easter Connection Cards,
  • Easter Service Follow-up flyer

There will be more in the completed sets that will be released in the coming weeks along with tips on how to make the most of them. The samples below are in both MS Publisher editable files and PDF ready-to-print files. Below is a ZIP file where you can download them.

CLICK the following link to download the ZIP FILE of the Templates for the communications shown below: Preview Files for Easter 2017

CLICK on the first image and then you can see them larger in the Gallery view.

 

BIG Collection of Christmas Communications PDFs and Templates ready-to-modify and use

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The video preview on this site shows a large  group of FREE Christmas PDF and Template that are ready for ECC Members to download, open and modify for your church. One of the most important benefits of ECC Membership is all this work is done for you and at very little cost. 

On this site are articles for specific Christmas communications, with more commentary about each one, but here is a collection of all the types: invitation cards, motivation flyers, Christmas evangelism, connection cards, bulletin inserts, follow-up materials.

I'm working on some new designs for this year, but many of these from previous years are quite nice and even if you used one of them, there are lots of others if you want to get a start on your church communications. The best thing about them is they are all designs you can print IN YOUR CHURCH OFFICE and that you can MODIFY however you want.

The ZIP files contain ready to print PDFs, editable MS Publisher Templates, and hi-res images. There are over 40 pieces of all kinds of Christmas communications: Bulletin Inserts, evangelism letters and brochures, invitation and business cards, postcards in quarter and half-page size and program covers.

The various kinds of communications are in coordinating designs so that invitations have matching connection cards, etc.

Following is a preview video of the designs and below that, just click on an image to download the ZIP FILE. If you are not an ECC Member. For more information on becoming a member of Effective Church Communications, CLICK HERE.

Preview of the communications that follow

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Motivational flyer to encourage your congregation to invite people to Christmas events

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Bulletin Insert, Why invite to Christmas Events #4
Use this bulletin insert to encourage your congregation to invite friends and family to your Christmas events.

Why does your church do all the work you do for Christmas events, for the concerts, plays, family fun times?

The answer has two parts for most churches—the events are both for current members and for their unchurched friends, family, and those they work with and meet in the course of life. For your congregation, they often need a reminder that the events aren't just for their family, but that Christmas time is a great time to invite others.

This reminder is more important than a need to fill the church for all three Christmas Eve services. Jesus came to earth to provide salvation and many people outside the church today honestly don't know the reasons for his birth, life, death, and resurrection. Christmas is an appropriate time to invite share.

This bulletin handout will help you encourage your people to invite others to your Christmas services. CLICK HERE or on the image above to download a FREE PDF of the insert.

At the end of this article is a ZIP File for you to download that contains:

  • 3 more designs (see below for samples)
  • Ready-to-print PDFs of all 4 designs
  • Editable MS Publisher files of all 4 designs
  • Hi-res images of all

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GREAT Church Bulletin Sample: order of service, newsletter, evangelism tract, refridgerator reminder and more–all on ONE sheet of paper

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This church bulletin sample is truly an example of genius in layout and design. I'm not using that description because of its use of fancy graphics, but because it packed in essential communication components, including an order of service, place for sermon notes, announcements, a gospel presentation, and a weekly schedule that is ready-to-post on the refrigerator, all the parts that a church needs for its various audiences all into ONE piece of 11 x 17 paper.

It is a few years old and you will want to modify for your church, but the idea, the layout and the essential communications it packs into one piece of paper are timeless.

This was sent in as part of our Great Idea Swap, where church communicators share with church communicators.

Below  are two images of the bulletin for everyone to view.


How it works and how it was created

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