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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GIS: Christmas Sample: a Christmas flyer that answers Jesus’s prayer

10 November, 2016 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Christmas flyer JOY Story side one
Side one of a flyer from a number of churches, that illustrates not only the Christian message of Christmas, but the unity of the Christian churches that sent it.

Just before Jesus went to the cross, part of his prayer was for us. It is astounding to think that just before he faced the horror of the cross, he was praying for how we would represent him. Here is part of what he said:

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—  I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me" John 17:20-23

Think about that—Jesus prayed that the world would see our oneness and from that they would come to know Jesus. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Christmas, Great Idea Swap Tagged With: church christmas flyer, church christmas outreach, church unity

Business or Invitation cards for Christmas or outreach, gifts, PR, invitations to come back to church, whatever you can think of

14 December, 2011 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Christmas business and invitation cards wide #1Christmas business and invitation cards wide #3

 

 

 

Business and invitation cards can be used for so many things during the Christmas season: invitations, gift enclosures, links to website explanations about your church or Facebook or Twitter encouragements, cards to encourage people to come back to church, gift tags, or whatever else you can think of. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Christmas, Seasonal Tagged With: Christmas business cards, Christmas cards, Christmas invitations, church christmas marketing, church christmas outreach, Communications

FREE Church Publicity Workshop: How to promote your church events to local media

1 December, 2011 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Publicity Cover page
This is the first page of presentation notes for this extremely helpful Publicity Workshop for churches. At the end of this article you can download the notes and PowerPoint presentation.

At this holiday time of year, we work so hard to put on Christmas events and we want as many people as possible to attend.In addition to all you do at the church, if you can get free media advertising, this can be a way to reach people who are unfamiliar with your church.

To help you do that, reach your community, and get them to your events, ECC Member, Sandra Coulson, a newspaper reporter and copy editor has shared a Publicity Workshop presentation that she presented to her church. The advice in it is clear, simple, easy-to-follow and tremendously useful.

The ZIP FILE at the end of the article has her PowerPoint presentation and PowerPoint notes. Below is her cover email that explains what she did.

I can't thank her enough for sending it. If you have training materials like this that you would like to freely pass on, please email me with them at yvon@effectivechurchcom.com.

Sandra's email and cover letter for the Publicity Workshop Presentation

Hi Yvon,

We recently tried a publicity workshop for leaders of groups at my church and it seemed to help many of them with an area in which they were struggling.

Some background: I’ve worked as a newspaper reporter and copy editor for 30 years. Although I sit on the other side of the fence, I understand the general approach that publicists use to attract attention to their cause. I also noticed that some of the posters, flyers and public service announcements that groups at my church were putting out were missing the mark. (At my church, each group often does their own publicity.) So I volunteered to put together a short, simple presentation on the basic of publicizing events.

I sent out invitations (mainly by e-mail) to all group leaders. Since I work nights at the newspaper, the easiest time to organize it was right after church on Sunday morning. The alternative was a session on Saturday, but I figured most of us would be there on Sunday, so I chose that day. I made up a PowerPoint presentation and an A-V Team member kindly stayed after church to run it for me. I prepared a handout with the PowerPoint slides and a list of all the media outlets I could think of in our city where events could be promoted: dailies, weeklies, magazines, newsletters, radio stations, TV stations, neighbourhood bulletin boards (the old-fashioned, non-electronic kind), websites, Twitter hashtags. (I didn’t provide all the details on how to contact each outlet because that seems to change quite often, but at least having a name gets them started.)

I think every group was represented either by the leader or a substitute the leader sent along, so I must have touched a need. Another church across the city heard about the presentation and asked for the material to use there. My presentation took only 20 minutes and there was a bit of discussion afterward, mainly with group leaders sharing with each other additional media outlets that I hadn’t thought of or whether some seemed more effective than others. Since then, some of them have continued to e-mail me with new ones they come across (mainly websites) and I have forwarded those to others who attended the workshop, so our list continues to grow with options for them to choose from.

I’ve attached the PowerPoint presentation. I thought it might be of some use to Effective Church Communications.

Sandra Coulson
Church of the Ascension
London, Ontario

I'm making this file free for everyone for the next few weeks and then it will be available for ECC Members only.

CLICK HERE to download the ZIP file that contains the PowerPoint Presentation and Notes page PDF.

Once you download the ZIP file, save it to your computer and then click to open.

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