Effective Church Communications

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators. 

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators.
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Strategic Summer Communications, an eBook and Video to help you make the most of special summer celebrations

1 July, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Strategic Summer Communications
Fun is expected at summer events, but we can do so much more at the ones hosted by our churches. This eBook and video will show you how.

Summer is a time when people expect to have fun at special events. When we host events at church, we can do that, but as with every holiday or special event we put on, we can do so much more if we are strategic about our summer communications!

One of the core teachings of Effective Church Communications is to remind you that holidays and special events are key times to both—grow your church in numbers and your people in spiritual maturity!

Doing more than stopping at fun only is what distinguishes how we have fun in the summer from other worthwhile places. There is nothing wrong with fun, but we also have the opportunity to perhaps change the course of the eternity of people in our communities by our strategic use of the opportunities people come to church in the summer.

This eBook and video on Strategic Summer Communications will help you do that. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Books for Church Communicators, ECC Library, Fourth of July & Summer celebrations Tagged With: free church summer postcards, free follow up materials after VBS, FREE templates for summer communications, how to get people back to church after special summer events, strategic summer communications, summer communications

New way to LOGIN to the Effective Church Communications Library

24 June, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

The Effective Church Communications Library is a great resource of eBooks, training videos, and other videos related to seasonal events that you can share with your church. It's newly created and I'm still working on putting a lot of content on it.

But I realized while accessing it myself that the LOGIN was confusing, so I redid how members and LOGIN to the site that I think is much easier.

Here is the video that shows how to do it:

Following is a brief video of the ECC Library:

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FREE flyers for the 4th of July and Canada Day–if there was ever a time grace was needed in our political world it is now

24 June, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

A prayer for Grace for all nations
The materials here share a prayer for Grace for all nations that is desperately needed in our contentious times.

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum on any issue, I think one thing we can all agree on is that as Christians, we most sincerely need to act in GRACE to those we may disagree with from a little bit to a lot.

This is also a time for two nations to celebrate their national holidays and for that, a few years ago I created the flyers here, and PowerPoint slides you can use to commemorate this time.

For all of us, let's remember above all that we are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, our ultimate allegiance is to our Lord Jesus, and He commands us to love each other and grant each other grace as He does for us.

Below is an assortment of free materials to help you share a reminder and prayer for God's Grace for all of us.

Below are the sets of Templates with preview images, click on the title to go to the set you want.
  • Below is an assortment of free materials to help you share a reminder and prayer for God's Grace for all of us.
  • 4th of July and Canada Day flyers
  • Grace for all Nations Slides & Powerpoint
  • 4th of July God's Grace on America Slides and Powerpoint

The Templates are in ZIP files (you download them, click to open, hit "extract" and the files are saved and ready for you to use). The link for each set is below the images and the file contains both ready-to-print PDFs and editable MS Publisher files. Some of the ZIP files also have a MS Word file of text if that goes with the set.

Click on any image to enlarge and see more detailed previews. Click on the link below the images to download the Templates to your computer. 

4th of July and Canada Day flyers

4th of July Prayer for God's Grace on us

CLICK following to download the ZIP FILE: 4th of July & Canada Day Bulletin Insert

Grace for all Nations Slides & Powerpoint

CLICK following to download the ZIP FILE: Grace Prayer for All nations

4th of July God's Grace on America Slides and Powerpoint

CLICK following to download the ZIP FILE: 4th of July Slides

 

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Please take the survey here—2 minutes or less of your time!

22 June, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Software, projects, and questions survey
Help me help you be a more Effective Church Communicator
And I hope happier and more productive--I really appreciate you taking the time to do this!

What software are you currently using to create your church communications? Check all you use.*

What software are you currently using to create your church communications? Check all you use.*

What Church Communication project do you create?*

What Church Communication project do you create?*

Tell me more please. . . .
These are open-ended questions because I don't want to presume I know your answers.

What do you most want to learn about in church communications? What skills? What software? What organizational or spiritual struggles do you have?

What do you most want to learn about in church communications? What skills? What software? What organizational or spiritual struggles do you have?

What are your biggest frustrations, challenges, or questions in Church Communications? This can be in the technical, training, or spiritual areas.

What are your biggest frustrations, challenges, or questions in Church Communications? This can be in the technical, training, or spiritual areas.

Finally, what do you love most about your job in Church Communications? What are you most thankful for?

Finally, what do you love most about your job in Church Communications? What are you most thankful for?

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Strategy for summer communications, remember visitors, delete hidden jargon, don’t host a money-divided event

22 June, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Summer Image
Your church will have visitors this summer, be sure your communications make sense to them.

LINK to FREE Summer Templates is at the end of this article

Looking ahead to planning summer communications, this summer your church will get lots of visitors, some of whom are friends of church members who might not regularly go to church, others may be from the surrounding community, and we can't forget out-of-town visitors. This is a wonderful opportunity to reach out with the gospel and the love of Jesus and here are some strategic tips to help your communications make the most of this opportunity and some strong cautions about what not to do.

Jargon watch

We know we shouldn’t use church jargon terms like justification and sanctification in our church bulletin, web, or social media when we are writing for people visiting our church, but so much of our church jargon we don’t even see. Using acronyms we don't explain, talking about events that we do year after year and assume everyone knows about, insider jokes, assuming people know times and locations—all these things are confusing and unkind to someone visiting. We don't want our language to keep someone with a free night in our city to miss out on an opportunity to learn about Jesus.

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Filed Under: Blog, Fourth of July & Summer celebrations, Outreach Samples, Strategy, Strategy #2: Make the most of seasonal events—grow your church in numbers AND your people in discipleship Tagged With: communicate with visitors, summer communications, visitor friendly church communications

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