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.

Jesus, the Reason for the Season postcard, flyer, program cover or bulletin insert

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Jesus is the reason for the Season postcard
Our world needs to be reminded that Jesus truly is the "Reason for the Season." This publication can help you do that.

We know that Jesus is the reason we celebrate Christmas, we know Jesus is the reason for the season, but many of the people who visit your church or are in the neighborhood around it don't have any idea what that means. This communication piece will help.

Though it is done is a casual, upbeat style, the content is actually taken from the Nicene Creed, one of the most widely accepted creeds in the Christian Church and one that defines the identity and role of Jesus as our Savior. Below are pictures of the file. One is in color and one in grey scale. The grey scale looks good printed on some a rustic-looking or colored paper.

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Half-page Christmas designs for postcards, invitations, programs

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Christmas Booklet Cover or Half size Postcards#11
The files here are half of an 8.5 x 11 sheet and can be used as postcards, program covers, or however you'd like.

These half-page designs can be used in many ways for your Christmas outreach: as invitation postcards that you make up for your people to hand out, as reminders, as encouragements to attend Christmas programs, as gift inserts, and they work quite well as a cover for a Christmas program.

You can edit the card if you are an ECC Member and have access to the MS Publisher files, but even if you don't edit them, they are great designs you can personalize on the back.

The design to the left is free for everyone. CLICK HERE or on the image to download it. It is a ready-to-print PDF. Below are the additional designs for Effective Church Communication Members. Each of these designs is in a ZIP file at the end of the article that has:

  • Ready-to-print PDFs
  • Editable MS Publisher Files
  • Hi-res images

For ECC Membership Information, CLICK HERE.

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Below is the ZIP FILE for ECC Members that has the ready-to-print PDFs, editable MS Publisher files and Hi-res images of these designs.

 

CLICK HERE to download the FILE; SAVE to your desktop, and CLICK to open and use.

Quarter-page postcards for Christmas Outreach, reminders, invitations

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Christmas Quarter Page Postcards#1
This quarter-page Christmas file is free for everyone and this article has many more for ECC Members.

These quarter-page designs can be used in many ways for your Christmas outreach: as invitation postcards that you make up for your people to hand out, as reminders, as encouragements to attend Christmas programs, as gift inserts, whatever you'd like.

You can edit the card if you are an ECC Member and have access to the MS Publisher files, but even if you don't edit them, they are great designs you can personalize on the back.

The design to the left is free for everyone. CLICK HERE or on the image to download it.  It is a ready-to-print PDF.  Below are the additional designs for Effective Church Communication Members. Each of these designs is in a ZIP file at the end of the article that has:

  • Ready-to-print PDFs
  • Editable MS Publisher Files
  • Hi-res images [Read more...]

VIDEO: A GREAT way to publicize Holiday Events

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Print is still one of the most powerful ways to communicate because if you do up a print piece, such as a postcard and it is placed on the refrigerator--you can't help but see it many times!

The US Postal Service reminded us of that in a little video they did, and a clip of that is in the very short video that follows. At the end of the video is a link that will take you to the template page shown.

To see the video full-screen, click on the little square at the lower, right-hand corner. Enjoy!