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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One Mother’s Prayer, a new set of PDFs to share for Mother’s Day and anytime for prayer groups

12 April, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

One Mothers Prayer--a true story of the power of Prayer
Prayer is the most powerful gift we can give those we love. Read this true story and be encouraged in your prayers.

This true story has been one of the popular pieces on this site because it is an encouraging reminder of the power of a Mother's Prayers.

Whether someone is a mom biologically or spiritually, our prayers are the most powerful gifts we can give to those we love.

As this true story shows, prayer can totally change the direction of a life and turn someone who may have been openly hostile to the Christian faith into a powerful witness for Jesus.

Below are some new images of it I created recently in Canva. The ZIP file is of ready-to-print PDFs and jpg images.

If you want some of the older images, editable files, and the text file of One Mother's Prayer, go to: One Mother's Prayer, a free and inspiring story for however you want to use it for Mother's Day

To download the ZIP file of the ready-to-print PDFs and jpg images, click the following link: One Mothers Prayers 2020

 

 

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Why the emphasis on evangelism and discipleship for Mother’s Day

11 April, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Mothers Day Resources
Celebrating Mothers is important on Mother's Day, but we can do more to reach out to unchurched families at this time.

The reasons for doing more on Mother's Day that focusing solely on celebrating Moms has to do with the overall approach of the Effective Church Communications ministry.

Bear with me for a few minutes while I explain (and if you are super busy, just go HERE for free Mother's Day Templates).

Brief background of the philosophy underlying Effective Church Communications

I never imagined when I was astounded with the technical ability of the IBM Self-Correcting typewriter that I'd be communicating today creating images in Canva, doing podcasts, and training videos for church communicators on the web that reach the world.I imagine those starting out with the technology we have today will look back, should they and this world last, and be amazed at what they will use in church communications five decades from now.

Tools are essential, but often a distraction

Though technology and the tools we use to communicate have continuously changed from the use of clay tablets to the Internet (though the pace has accelerated greatly), a human tendency continues to focus on the tools as THE most important ingredient to communication success. At one time it was radio that would reach the world, then television, then the Internet came along and gave birth to the myriad of technologies today.

A bulletin with color added was a big deal at one time; now churches worry that they aren't posting enough on all the latest social media channels.

Each time a new tool appears we loudly proclaim THIS IS IT! Conquer this or that tool and the world will be reached for Jesus. Or at least we'll have a new tool to try. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Misc. Advice and Articles, Mother's Day Tagged With: approach for Mothers Day for churches, Make the most of Mothers Day, Mothers day and discipeship, Mothers day and evangeslism, Why a different approach to Mother's Day is needed

Free Challenging Instagram graphics for GRADUATION, download and use

2 April, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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

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Filed Under: Social Media Images Tagged With: free Christian Instagram images, free downloadable images, Free Instagram Images for Graduation

Free Easter Social Media Images, Postcards, and however you want to use images and messages

27 March, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

One of a collection of Easter related images and messages you can modify for your use in Canva.
This is one of a collection of Easter-related images and messages you can modify for your use in Canva.

This collection of images and messages can be used in many ways including in all sorts of social media, plus you can download and put them into printed postcards or copy the message for online newsletters or Easter-related posts.

Below the images are direct links to the Canva files where you can download them as is or modify them in Canva for your church.

Click on the first image and it will make it larger so you can see the text.

This is a great set of images and messages that you can use in many ways for Easter.

Here is a short video of them, then a gallery of the images and below them links to the Canva files for the various formats:

Facebook images: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFdnClDdNk/ZYxVEIoYYx9AnCN5Y0EqFg/edit?utm_content=DAFdnClDdNk&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Instagram images: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFdnZhymEU/jdwYs9LAojhSp9JNu0FZeg/edit?utm_content=DAFdnZhymEU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

1/4 page postcards: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFdnJHkgXQ/aGyabTWOS6lI8NJ3aHJhdA/edit?utm_content=DAFdnJHkgXQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

1/2 page postcards: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFdbN5yOUE/nDNz2cf7Yb2zj0I0TmQc-Q/edit?utm_content=DAFdbN5yOUE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Linkedin Images: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFdnJHkgXQ/aGyabTWOS6lI8NJ3aHJhdA/edit?utm_content=DAFdnJHkgXQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

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Filed Under: CANVA TEMPLATES, Easter, FREE Materials Tagged With: Easter messages to use however you want, Free Easter Canva templates, free easter images, Free Easter messages

From our vault: Everything you need for Easter: Templates, strategy, inspiration and encouragement for all your Easter communications

1 February, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Easter Invitation
This is one of the Easter Invitation Templates. You can link to dozens more from this article.

Effective Church Communications has dozens of Resources, including articles, podcasts, and FREE Templates you can use for all the Easter communications you need for before, during, and after Easter.

These are from our Template and Podcast vaults--we will be creating new ones for 2023, but I know many of you want to get started on Easter planning and many of these designs and the strategy linked to them are timeless.

The FREE templates have all the work of communications done for you: the design, layout, choice of type, and copyright-free artwork is all done saving you many hours. The Templates are in both ready-to-print PDF format (which you can personalize on the back) and easy to modify, MS Publisher files. Please let others know about these resources. Following is the link to all of them:

All Communications Easter Templates
http://wp.me/PDky9-6Qx

We have much more than the Templates themselves because if you are going to be truly effective in your use of them, you need a wise strategy underpinning what you do. The podcasts, article links that follow, and the Church Communications Training course (link at the end) will give that to you.

Podcasts:

Last minute helps before Easter

In case you missed these—Essential Easter Communications Templates, ready to print and use
https://wp.me/pDky9-7b9

Last minute checklist for Easter Sunday to assure visitor connections
https://wp.me/pDky9-5pu

Social media images for Easter with challenging messages
https://wp.me/pDky9-8

Communications Before

Great card to motivate your congregation to invite and pray!

Why it matters if you invite your friends to Easter services
http://wp.me/pDky9-6YB

Free Church Bunny Easter Invitation to encourage children to be inviters
http://wp.me/pDky9-71c

GIS: Innovative way to invite people to Easter services: "Egg" your neighborhood!
http://wp.me/pDky9-3dI

We've got a great selection of invitations for you for Easter!

Easter Invitations and how to use them effectively
http://wp.me/pDky9-6Il

Effective Easter Outreach: Door-hangers, an invitation you can't ignore
http://wp.me/pDky9-2n0

No time? Little money? Essential Easter Communications Panic Pack to the Rescue!
http://wp.me/pDky9-7b1

Communications During

Last minute checklist for Easter Sunday to assure visitor connections
http://wp.me/pDky9-5pu

Bookmarks and Bulletin inserts that explain what you do regularly for Easter Visitors to return
http://wp.me/pDky9-75C

Effective WEBSITE strategy for Children's Ministry Easter follow-up
http://wp.me/pDky9-ip

Expect and encourage questions at Easter, PLUS ways to answer them
http://wp.me/pDky9-1gQ

FREE Easter Jelly Bean Prayer for Children's Ministry
http://wp.me/pDky9-1dn

Resurrection Cookies, a Free recipe that will teach children and parents about Easter
http://wp.me/pDky9-1dD

Make it OK for visitors to reject Jesus at Easter    
https://wp.me/pDky9

Don't expect unchurched people to feel the same way about Easter as you do
https://wp.me/pDky9-7t

 

You have to get information from people to be able to contact them and invite them back--our connection cards will do that!

Connection Cards, why they work best to get people back to church after Easter
http://wp.me/pDky9-79t

Recipe for Greek Easter Bread, an outreach treat for Easter guests
http://wp.me/pDky9-2oK

Communications After

Easter Follow-up: postcards, email messages for coffee & conversation, latte with the pastor
http://wp.me/pDky9-7cq

Post-Easter communication evaluation tips to help your church grow
http://wp.me/pDky9-7cq

Follow-up after a church holiday outreach event: speed dating or relationship building?
https://wp.me/pDky9-27s

Overall Strategy

Look inward before you reach outward: make sure your church is ready for holiday and special event outreach guests
http://wp.me/pDky9-2Sc

What can happen if you if you work hard on your event, but don’t work on event communications
http://wp.me/pDky9-2T6

Clarify the meaning of Easter in all your communications
http://wp.me/pDky9-5H8

Make it OK for visitors to reject Jesus at Easter
http://wp.me/pDky9-5H5

Tune Up your church technology for Easter—FREE PDF download of Ministry Tech Cover Story by Yvon Prehn
http://wp.me/pDky9-740 [Read more...]

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