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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Successful Seasonal Strategies for Halloween and Fall outreach

3 October, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

This video builds on the basic course Successful Seasonal Strategies with specific resources and strategies for Halloween and Fall Festivals.

Though there are many things about this time of year that are offensive to many Christians, it is a fantastic time for outreach and not only because it provides a time to give away free candy and keep kids out of trouble, but because with its emphasis on death and the afterlife it is a great time to introduce people to the ONE individual who conquered death and is alive and that is Jesus. This video gives you ideas on how to make the most of this and outreach to your community with links to FREE templates you can use Before, During, and After your event.

To get the resources mentioned in the video go to:

https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/templates

https://www.Bible805.com

https://www.payhip.com/Bibleverseshop

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Why everything sinful about Halloween makes it perfect for Outreach!

2 October, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Halloween outreach
How to take what is evil about Halloween and turn it into a reason to share about Jesus!

Lots of churches don't do outreach events at Halloween because they think they are sinful--but this brief video shows you how the very things that make Halloween sinful and repulsive to many church people--the focus on death, the supernatural and similar things are what make Halloween a PERFECT time for outreach.

We can use these topics and the interest people have in them as bridges to conversations about Jesus. The video here shows you how the Apostle Paul did that and how we can use this time of year to do it in our communities.

CLICK HERE TO go to LINKS to motivation and tools to help you share the good news about Jesus at Halloween

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Free resources for last minute Halloween Outreach

1 October, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Halloween, use it for Outreach!
Halloween can be a great time for outreach--here are free resources that can help.

Though there are many things we may not like about Halloween as Christians, people are thinking about death at this time and it is a great opportunity to take the interest already created in the topic to share with them, or at least to get them to think about the only person who conquered death--Jesus.

The first link below will take to a FREE card you can print and share to challenge people to think about Jesus. Sometimes we hesitate to share our faith--but the reality of someone who doesn't come to know Jesus is far worst than the most terrifying Halloween horror. Make the most of every opportunity to help people spend forever with Jesus with these resources:

FREE Outreach Card for Halloween, a challenge to think about life after death

Click on the link below to go to a FREE PDF of a card you can slip into any Halloween treat or use for outreach.
https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/free-outreach-card-for-halloween-a-challenge-to-think-about-life-after-death/

Halloween Outreach Videos and how to use them to reach unchurched people for Jesus

Here are two very powerful videos, under two minutes each that challenge people at Halloween to think about Jesus. For Effective Church Communication Members, you can download the HD versions of the videos. Everyone can link to or embed the YouTube versions on your websites for Halloween Outreach.

https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/halloween-outreach-videos-and-how-to-use-them-to-reach-unchurched-people-for-jesus/

Video review of PicMonkey, A very FREE, FUN, EASY, and Creative tool for Halloween graphics

This program is quick, easy-to-use and the intro version is FREE! Lots of fun to modify some pictures for Halloween.

https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/a-very-free-fun-easy-and-creative-tool-for-halloween-graphics/

LINKS to motivation and tools to help you share the good news about Jesus at Halloween

The Effective Church Communications site has lots more material to help you make the most of Halloween as an outreach time. Here is the link to a list of links:

https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/links-to-motivation-and-tools-to-help-you-share-the-good-news-about-jesus-at-halloween/

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Church Halloween Celebrations: why simply having fun and not sinning is not the point of why we do what we do

1 October, 2023 By Yvon Prehn 4 Comments

Halloween is about more than fun, it's an opportunity to share the gospel
If the reason for your Halloween outreach is only about kids having fun and getting lots of candy, you've missed a great opportunity to share the gospel.

Is having fun what defines a Christian? Is FUN what makes a church even worthwhile? Is fun why we do what we do (whatever it is) in the Christian life?

When you look at many church communications, you'd assume the answer was "yes." A recent scanning of material on the web as I was researching alternative Halloween events overwhelmingly advertised events or promoted activities where the FUN promised is promoted as the primary reason people should attend. Though the focus of this article is on the combination of Halloween communications and the emphasis of FUN (intentional shouting with the all capital letters), the same concerns and cautions apply to our communication of many church outreach events.

How fun becomes the primary motivation for Halloween alternative events

Much of the thinking process behind many of these "Christian" alternatives to Halloween on the web seems to go something like this:

  1. Halloween is evil.
  2. To take part in a traditional secular celebration of Halloween is evil and sinful.
  3. Christians shouldn't do evil and sin.
  4. Instead Christians should have good, clean fun.
  5. Therefore our church will do a fun event for Halloween.
  6. People will see we are Christians by our fun.

I don't have a problem with the list up to #3—much of traditional Halloween celebrations are evil. Maybe not as evil as some timid folks fear, but probably not activities that would fall into the class of edifying Christian activities. Dressing up as demons and witches and glorifying magic is not what Christians ought to be doing. Sending your kids out alone to beg for candy in most areas today isn't safe. But the alternative to fighting evil or working to fulfill the Great Commission is not to simply have safe fun. [Read more...]

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Halloween responses to keep in mind–a flyer reminder to be kind when we might want to be grumpy

6 August, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

This was shared on Facebook and is very worth passing on as a reminder of what can be a fun, but also a sometimes stressful time. Below it is another challenging thought from Facebook.

What is below is especially important if you are giving out a gospel tract or other information related to your church or Jesus at Halloween.

Below it is one more challenging example from Facebook about Halloween.

When we get it right at Halloween

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