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.

You asked for more on how to use Canva and I’ve got some exciting news for you! Announcing CANVA templates and videos on how to use them

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You asked for more on how to use Canva and I've got some exciting news for you—CANVA templates and videos on how to use them!

I don't know about you but I really dislike how-to videos about a program I really want to learn, but that has little to no relationship to any real-world product.

I'm talking about the kind that simply demonstrates "features" and you are left wondering how those actions could ever apply to your projects.

What I decided to do was to DEMONSTRATE the various ways you can use Canva by actually showing you HOW to do things with real Templates, and real projects you do. Not only does this make the learning more practical, but I discovered it is incredibly easy to link you directly to Canva where you can modify the templates I create for you.

Here is the first video I created for how to sign up for Canva and then modify Fall Templates.

CLICK on the Titles below that go to previews of the two initial projects I did for this: Fall Invitation Postcards and Fall Business Card-size Invitations.

Free Fall postcards

Free Fall Business Invitation Cards

FREE TEMPLATES–Canva Fall Invitation Postcards, also jpg format you can use in MS Publisher

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Below is a set of Free Templates in Canva you can use for Fall Invitation Postcards.

CLICK HERE to go to Canva to modify them.

Click the following link to download a Zip File of the jpgs: FALL INVITE Postcard jpgs

Below is a video that shows you how to modify the Templates here and download and use them in MS Publisher.

FREE TEMPLATES: Church Business Card Size Fall Festival and other Fall Events

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Here are some FREE Templates in Canva you can use to print business cards to invite people to a variety of fall events. This is part of the launch of many new and revised templates in Canva that you can also download and use in MS Publisher. For a video on how to use these, CLICK HERE.

Following are the designs and below them the link to Canva where you can modify them. If you simply want to download and use jpg images of them, a link for that is below the images also.

To go to the Canva file, modify or download as is, CLICK on the link HERE

To download a zip file of jpg images of the cards that you can use in MS Publisher or web applications, CLICK HERE.

For a video of how to sign up for Canva and some initial tips on editing Templates and how to download and use them in MS Publisher, check out the video here:

Game changer! The loss of comprehension of cursive—what it means to church communicators and what to do about it—Canva video included

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Contrast between cursive and block lettering
Many people today have trouble reading the cursive scripts in either print or handwriting. We need to be aware of this and design accordingly in our church communications if we want to reach the most people possible.

This is incredibly important for you to understand before you do ANY more outreach advertising, encouragements, or communications creation of any kind, if you want the the maximum number of people in your church and community to be able to read them.

The reason for my urgent message is the realization that many people today cannot read cursive writing and that includes ALL the wonderful script fonts we like to use so much in our designs for church communications. That includes the group of templates I had ready to send out to you that I need to update. (Sigh.)

This is not a happy post for me to write. I don't like change any more than the average person and to have to change something as basic and natural to me as writing cursive and using wonderful script fonts in communication design just seems like a bit much to deal with.

When I am feeling grumpy like this I remind myself that the communication I do isn't about me, but about a world that needs Jesus and NOTHING should be too much to do, little or big if it can help us reach them. So I slap myself, ask for forgiveness and write a blog about it......

First I'll give you a little background on how I became aware of the loss of the ability to read cursive and then some very practical steps on what to do about it, plus a short Canva Tutorial on some creative ways to deal with this situation on a Fall Outreach Postcard.

It is later in the post, keep reading first for more background on this situation.

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A great resource for encouragement, inspiration, and challenge—and a super affordable way of pricing them for you

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Here is a short video preview of a great ministry resource that I've recently repriced to make it affordable for any ministry.

For many years I've enjoyed creating little framed images of Bible verses or encouraging sayings and giving them away.  I realized that this could also be something shared with people as well as be a way to support the Effective Church Communications ministry.

As I started making them I enjoyed it more than I imagined and the images have increased and increased.

I also realized as they did that pricing them individually would mean they couldn't be used as much as I liked to use them and that I hoped others would. So instead of pricing them at individually, I decided to price them at $36 a year--and grant unlimited reproduction rights on them.

This way you have a growing resource 24/7 that you can have for printed images of many sizes as well as for social media. Check out the video below for a brief overview of them, but keep in mind that new images will be continuously added.

To go to the shop, click the following link: The Bibleverse Shop

You can sign up at: https://payhip.com/b/vLezC