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.

Video: about ECC TEMPLATES and an overview of FREE CHRISTMAS TEMPLATES

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Christmas is incredibly busy and Templates can be a great time saver when you want to do something quickly without having to take time to agonize over design or legal images or what typeface to use.

Effective Church Communications has created hundreds of Templates for you that will not only save you time, but that will help you accomplish the ministry goals of helping people come to know Jesus as Savior and grow to maturity in your Christian faith.

The video here explains how and why our templates can be useful to you and gives you an overview and examples of how we put our ministry strategy into practice for Christmas.

You can download all the Christmas Templates HERE.

Here are just a few samples of what's on that page. [Read more...]

Templates—New and Easier Access to save time and your sanity!

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Church Communications Templates are a great resource
Church Communications Templates are a great resource and one of the best benefits of membership in Effective Church Communications. Check out these videos to be able to access them.

Templates are one of the most useful resources we offer because the all these things are done for you: communication concept, selection of artwork, typeface, layout and the ministry text. They have been the most popular part of Effective Church Communications for years but once people downloaded them initially, it was difficult to find them again.

That was my fault because though I knew you could access them through looking up the category they were under, even if you remembered that, it still took searching through articles to find the template link if all you wanted was to just grab some invitation cards or connection cards for a particular holiday. That has all changed!

I finally came up with a process where I have a system for you to easily find and download Templates.

The video below explains it. Following this short video is a longer one that shows you how Templates work, how to modify them and where to find them.

Two of the most useful things about the Effective Church Communication Templates are:

You do not need Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign to modify them. They are primarily in MS Publisher, which is an easy-to-use program found in most church offices.

You can DOWNLOAD the Templates, you don't have to work on-line. That makes it easy to take them home and work anywhere without relying on the internet.

Check out the videos below. If you are not a member of Effective Church Communications, CLICK HERE--this is one of the best benefits and our very reasonable membership cost will more than pay for the time you save!

Templates, New & Easier Access!

Templates, an Overview

How to edit MS Publisher Templates provided by Effective Church Communications

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The video below shows you how to edit MS Publisher Templates. The set used as an example is a collection of Summer Postcards. The sets of communications created for Effective Church Communications typically have one example available for everyone. That is in a ready-to-print PDF format. For Effective Church Communication Members there is more--not only in the number of PDFs that you can download and print, but the downloadable ZIP file for members has the original MS Publisher file in it. This file allows you to edit the communications and modify them however you want for your church.

This ability greatly expands the usefulness of the ZIP files for Effective Church Communication Members because you can modify them for many uses and situations beyond the specific use or season they were created for. What makes this especially useful for you is that the basic layout work, the artwork, the typefaces--all that has been done and you simply need to change or add the details about events for your church. There are hundreds of templates available for ECC Members that can all be edited in ways similar to the ones shown on the video following.

For more information about Effective Church Communication Membership and to sign up, CLICK HERE.

Note: this is an older version of MS Publisher, so your exact location of commands might be a little different, but the basic instructions are the same.

How to edit Effective Church Communication Templates in MS Publisher


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ZIP FILES: how to edit them and make the most of them

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One of the best benefits to membership in Effective Church Communications is our collection of ZIP FILES that contain ready-to-print PDFs, editable MS Publisher files and images of many church communications. I recently got an email asking me how to edit the ZIP files and I created this video that not only shows you how to do that, but has a number of other tips for getting the most out of them.

For your copies of the ZIP files and others illustrated above, click on the links below:

Christmas Communications PDFs and Templates for ECC Members

 

Video: What is a TEMPLATE on Effective Church Communications and how can you use them?

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Templates are one of the best resources on this site because they will save you HUGE amounts of time when you need to create many church communications. Though the foundational work is done--many have artwork, text, design and much more done for you, you can change them to suit your tastes and for your church.

There has been some confusion about what makes a file a Template and what makes a file a PDF? What can be edited and what can't be? This video will help answer your questions. Below the video are notes for it and a LINKS & RESOURCES sheet in PDF format that has all the links talked about in the video. Just download the PDF and you can click on the links or if you would prefer to go a website and link directly to the templates shown in the video, CLICK HERE.

Video on: What is a Template?

Notes to go with the video as well as page of links

Just click on either image to download the PDF.

Notes for what is a TEMPLATELInks to Template resources