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

5 November, 2016 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Christmas, Church Bulletin Inserts, Evangelism & Outreach Tagged With: Christmas bulletin inserts, Christmas invitation, Christmas postcards, Jesus as reason for the season

Half-page Christmas designs for postcards, invitations, programs

27 November, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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.

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Quarter-page postcards for Christmas Outreach, reminders, invitations

27 November, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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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...]

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VIDEO: A GREAT way to publicize Holiday Events

15 November, 2011 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

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!

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“The refridgerator has never been hacked” and church outreach applications

14 November, 2011 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

The US postal service has a recent ad that starts out with the statement: "the refrigerator has never been hacked." You can check out the video below.  Though the ad is obviously designed to encourage people and businesses to use the mail, it also has some great reminders for all of us as we as we work to reach out to our communities with invitations to seasonal and special events.

Below is the very short video and following it are some more applications for church communicators. At the end of the article are links to templates that you can modify to create invitations for your Christmas events.

Click on the image to go to video and then come back for some more advice.

Fridge hacked
Click on this image to go to the video. It is from a USPS ad reminds us that a message posted on the refrigerator is a great way to communicate.

 

What church communicators need to remember

Humor aside, the fridge is still communication central for every home that has one.

No matter how tech savvy you and your family members are, no matter how many people have mobile phones, ipads, or email accounts, everyone will see an image on the fridge many times. If you want your congregation to be reminded of a holiday event, the fridge is the place you want for your message.

Tips to make your message fridge friendly

  1. Make it a postcard
  2. Be sure the key connecting points of your message are on ONE side of the postcard.
  3. Far too many postcards work hard to create a catchy image on the front, but then expect people to turn it over for connection information.
  4. If the backside only has connection information--you may not know what the details are for.
  5. Think of your postcard as a mini-billboard--connection and details on one side.
  6. People will post it on the fridge and come to your event.
Christmas Invitation Color, snow man, with details
This is an example of the way you can modify our templates to create mini-billboards for Christmas outreach. CLICK HERE to go to the article that has the templates.

A set of Christmas invitations

CLICK HERE to go to an article with Christmas invitations.

There is a free one for everyone and a great set of editable templates for Effective Church Communication Members.

This is just  one of the many resources available for Effective Church Communication Members. Membership is only $9.99 a month and give you access to a huge amount of templates, ebooks, instructional videos year round. CLICK HERE for more information.

 

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