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.

INSPIRATIONAL Postcard invitations for Father’s Day

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Free Fathers Day Invitation
Click on the image to download this Free Invitation.

No matter what your church as planned for Father's Day, you need invitations to get them there and we've got some for you.

These invitations,  which are half of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet and that print 2 per page, have a challenging verse for Dads on the front and then on the back you can add whatever details you want about what your church has going on for Dads. They can be printed on light-weight cardstock and mailed or given out.

If you want just one, the one to the left is free as a downloadable PDF. Click on the image to download it.

All the designs below are part of a ZIP file below the gallery of additional images. The file has ready-to-print PDFs of all the designs, plus editable MS Publisher files and jpegs of all.

CLICK the following link to download the ZIP file of the invitations shown above:Fathers Day Invitation

 

How to communicate with an audience that has no time to listen

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Remember time stress when creating church communications
Remember the time stress of your audience when creating church communications.

Need some evidence that it isn't just your imagination making you feel nobody has time for anything related to the church? "At the end of the weekend, you are more than a full day behind in your activities. Even if we went to an eight-day week you still would be 4.5 hours behind." Was the conclusion of an article in the Wall Street Journal.

Ed note before I continue: I wrote this article several years ago and while updating the website ran across it. The time challenges of your audience today make it worth another look because though a few years have passed if anything the situation of time demands has become even more challenging as we attempt to reach people. Following is a reprint of the article with a number of updates added.

An article in the Wall Street Journal reported Americans work an average of 53 hours a week. Dale McFeatters took that statistic and calculated that if an individual did all the activities reported such as sleeping, TV, dressing, etc., without multitasking, that person would have a 28.5 hour a week time deficit. In addition to helping explain why we often feel stressed and tired, his calculations help explain why it is so difficult to get people respond to the communications from your church. Following are some ideas on how to communicate your church's message to a time-stressed and time-starved audience. [Read more...]

How to make Mom REALLY Happy!

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Mother's Day make Mom really happy cards
Though a fun way to share the message, it is a very serious one and here is a selection of cards to help share it. CLICK on the image above for a FREE PDF of this publication.

This communication is fun and always makes people smile, but it has a serious message because what each of the cards below illustrate in various ways is that, "What makes mom really happy....is for you to come back to church next Sunday!"

The cards below can be used as an insert for Mother's Day or they make great follow-up postcards sent out after Mother's Day to the visiting spouses and children who attended to make mom happy. Need some Connection Cards for Mother's Day to collect those names? A set of them is below the Make Mom Happy Cards.

The one to the left is a FREE PDF for everyone. CLICK HERE or on the image to download it. The other options and the zip files you can download with both ready-to-print PDFs and editable MS Publisher files are below.

Make the most of every opportunity on Mother's Day and you'll find it can be not only one of the highest outreach Sundays of the year, but one of the most successful outreach Sundays!

Make Mom really happy cards

Below is the link to a zip file where you can download the publications above in both ready-to-print PDFs and editable MS Publisher files.

Click the following link to download the zip file: Make Mom Happy MDay Come Back to Church

Here are some specialized Connection Cards for Mother's Day

Below is the link to a zip file where you can download the publications above in both ready-to-print PDFs and editable MS Publisher files.

Click the following link to download the zip file: MDay Connection Cards  and Mothers Day Invitations Landscape 1

Better than roses—an essential communication piece for Mother’s Day

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Bulletin insert for Mother's Day
Help a mom say what she wishes she could say to her child about Jesus with this bulletin excerpt.

As we've talked about before, the biggest reason Mother's Day has such a large turn-out isn't because of the Moms. They are always there. It is because of the unchurched children and spouses that show up that day to make Mom happy. To make the most of it, the church needs to say to that audience what Mom can't—that the most important gift you can give her is a relationship with Jesus.

Here is a publications that will help you do that.

Mother's Day Bulletin insert

This insert doesn't pull any punches, but makes it clear that more important than anything else to a Mother is her child's relationship to Jesus. A bulletin insert can challenge, but also gently guide to websites and sources (please add your own from your church) so that a piece of paper, quietly put into a pocket, may be looked at in a quiet moment and an eternity changed.

Here are images of the insert. Click on one for a larger view.

Below is the text as a free gift to everyone to use however you want: a link for more is at the bottom of the page and you can download a large file that has lots of inserts you can personalize.

Above all PRAY for open hearts for the children and spouses who attend Mother's Day services that they will be convicted of the need to draw close to Jesus. [Read more...]

A new format for videos–square, not widescreen

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There have been a number of studies and articles over the last few months promoting the popularity of square screen videos.The primary reason for this is that you can see much more of a video and the content (depending of course on the actual content) may be clearer on a square screen when viewed on your mobile device, which is how most video is viewed today.

I thought I'd try it with a quick overview of Mother's Day communications. I created this video in animoto. I'd love your comments on it.