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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.

Free Challenging Instagram graphics for GRADUATION, download and use

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FREE Instagram graphic for church communicators
Social media can be a way to communicate a message if we don't know how to talk about it.

Talking person to person isn't always the easiest thing to schedule with your graduating teenager, but that doesn't mean we should give up on attempting to pass on meaningful messages to them. Below are 7 Instagram images you can download and then share.

Maybe one will spark a conversation.

Below the images is a ZIP file you can download that contains the images.

Though the images are the correct size for Instagram you can use them in any digital format, on your website, email newsletters, whatever you'd like.

CLICK the following link to download the Instagram images: Graduation Instagram Images

Other Graduation resources: click on the link following the title

For Graduates: Celebrate but also challenge
https://wp.me/pDky9-7XV

A Prayer for Graduates, Free flyer, bulletin insert
https://wp.me/pDky9-7Yt

A challenge for Graduates—choose your North Star wisely
https://wp.me/pDky9-7XR

FREE Valentines Day Backgrounds and How to Create them Using the Canva A.I. feature

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Free Valentines Background and how to create them
This is just one of over 3 dozen free background images you can use for Valentines Day. Download as either a ZIP file or link to Canva, use and modify.

The following backgrounds were all created in Canva, using their A.I. image-generating feature and they were then modified in Canva with some of their filters and image editing tools.

I have three sets of images for you with both links to the Canva files and also to download a ZIP file of 1080 x1080 px, jpg images. You can modify and use them however you want.

Before the images is a short video on how I created them using the Canva "text to image" or their A.I. image generation program. I'll be doing some additional videos about it, but I wanted to share these with you for Valentine's Day.

Following the video are the three sets, first with the images, then the Canva Link and the jpg file link for each set below the images.

 

AI Valentines Day Backgrounds, set #1

1080x1080 px

Here is the link to the Canva File: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFXher_1o8/USvnVN3RGXGzQoBI6lxuBg/edit?utm_content=DAFXher_1o8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Here is the link to the ZIP File of the jpg images: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/AI-Valentines-Day-Background-set-1.zip

AI Valentines Day Backgrounds, set #2

1080x1080 px

Here is the link to the Canva File: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFX43UGuNo/on8fUbCli-6Ve7q4ujWkSg/edit?utm_content=DAFX43UGuNo&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Here is the link to the ZIP File of the jpg images: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/AI-Valentines-Day-Background-set-1.zip

Valentines Day Backgrounds, set #3

1080x1080 px

Here is the link to the Canva File: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFZRrgtXbQ/ELmgA-ZQZ3joY1PMQftCfg/edit?utm_content=DAFZRrgtXbQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Here is the link to the ZIP File of the jpg images: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/AI-Valentines-Day-Background-set-1.zip

 

Don’t forget to say “Thank YOU!” to your Christmas volunteers—cards done for you to help you do that PLUS a new PRINTABLE!

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I'm sure all of your Christmas special programs are going to be an incredible success—thanks in large measure to the hard work of your many volunteers.

And I'm sure you want to take time to thank all of them, but have little energy to do it.

Effective Church Communications can help in that I have a set of Christmas Thank-You cards, illustrated in the gallery below. The main message is on the front and on the back all you have to do is write a short note in the half of the card across from the address.

After an event is over, often you are exhausted, and I recommend, if you can that you could print out, personalize, and have them ready to go right after the event. People will be immediately encouraged and you can relax.

A new free image in PRINTABLE formats

Christmas Angel as a Thank youIn addition to the cards, I added a PRINTABLE FOR YOU. This is from the Bibleverse Shop. The downloadable file has 12 different formats from social media images to images in every size and high resolution from 5x7 to 8.5x11 to 24x36 that will reproduce well on office printers as well as printing services. After printing it you can put your images into frames from the Dollar Store or similar places. It's a great way to creat gifts for your volunteers who work so hard during the Christmas Season. In addition, through the Bibleverse Shop you have permission to reproduce as many copies as you want for $1.99--but an even better buy is a year's membership in the Bibleverse Shop which is only $36 a year and you can download as many images as you want. To download, either click on the image or THIS LINK.

Additional cards that can be used to thank volunteers

I know you don't want one more thing added to your list, but please do take the time to do this. It's wonderful for your volunteers and pleasing to our Lord who commands us, "In everything to give thanks" (1 Thes. 5:18).

Below is a gallery of the cards. Use however you want. Below the images is the FREE ZIP file to download all of them.

CLICK following to download the ZIP FILES: christmas-thank-you-cards

After GIVING TUESDAY—my gift to YOU—dozens of FREE CHRISTMAS Templates!!!!! No strings attached…..really FREE

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Effective Church Communications has gifts for you!
Effective Church Communications has gifts for you--totally free templates for all occassions.

I do love the idea of Giving Tuesday but I must admit many of the ministry requests for giving in the midst of the crush of buying demands for Black Friday often felt like one more case of financial badgering.

I understand the need to raise funds whenever possible. When I was senior editor at both Compassion International and Young Life, I wrote many of those fund-raising appeals myself.

I thought about doing a plea for support for the Effective Church Communications Ministry. But I just couldn't add one more to an already lengthy list of the appeals you received from ministries doing truly important kingdom work. Then I realized......

This is an opportunity for me to GIVE to YOU!

It isn't anything new really, just a reminder of the many TEMPLATES and especially the Christmas ones I have for all of you for FREE!

Here are some of the ones I have and there are many, many more the links to all are at the bottom of this article:

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Video: about ECC TEMPLATES and an overview of FREE CHRISTMAS TEMPLATES

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Christmas is incredibly busy and Templates can be a great time saver when you want to do something quickly without having to take time to agonize over design or legal images or what typeface to use.

Effective Church Communications has created hundreds of Templates for you that will not only save you time, but that will help you accomplish the ministry goals of helping people come to know Jesus as Savior and grow to maturity in your Christian faith.

The video here explains how and why our templates can be useful to you and gives you an overview and examples of how we put our ministry strategy into practice for Christmas.

You can download all the Christmas Templates HERE.

Here are just a few samples of what's on that page. [Read more...]