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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25 years ago Gospel Light produced my first Desktop Publishing Training Video–I just found it and am sharing it

19 August, 2021 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

How some things change and how others stay the same! Below are two training videos from around 3 hours of training in creating communications with the computer which was a very NEW thing when I did the videos. I recently found them and decided to share them because it amazes me how the need for BASIC Training in church communication skills and the inspiration and motivation for why we do it in the church continues to be needed.

Below are the two videos and below them are the descriptions I put on the YouTube site. I know they are lengthy, but I do think they will be well worth your time to watch.

YouTube descriptions and background of the videos

This video, How to Use Your Computer to Make Better Newsletters, Bulletins, and More was made 25 years ago but the basic design principles in it are still useful. The description that follows is the same for both PART ONE and PART TWO of the video.

I recently (August 2021) found a copy of this video set in my files and though there is some outdated content and I have no idea what I did to get my hair to look like it does in the video, the majority of the video content is extremely useful. In addition, basic skills training like what is presented here is very hard to find for church communicators.

For training, you can find lots on the latest social media channel you should be using. How to write in a way that reaches busy people, basic design principles for any media, how to manage and stay strong spiritually in this challenging work is much harder to find. All this and much more is in the two videos. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Characteristics of ECC, Church Communications Training, FREE Materials Tagged With: Back to basics, church communication basics, church communication strategy, church communications training, Communications, yvon prehn videos

About ECC: Yvon Prehn and where to find her books

8 November, 2013 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Effective Church Communications Yvon PrehnYvon Prehn is the founder, director, and primary content creator of the training site for church communicators: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com, a website that provides practical training in print and digital communications to help churches fully fulfill the Great Commission.

Yvon worked in communication ministry for over 25 years. She was a free-lance newspaper reporter and religion writer for the Colorado Springs SUN.  She worked as a communications consultant and trainer for many of the ministries headquartered in
Colorado Springs and was senior editor at Compassion International and Young life International.

She then began writing and teaching seminars on church communications and doing free-lance

communications, marketing, and publication design. When desktop publishing was first invented,Yvon was a top-rated, national trainer in desktop publishing for Padgett/Thompson, the nation’s largest one-day seminar company and she wrote the first book on desktop publishing for the church, The Desktop Publishing Remedy. Though her time at Padgett/Thompson was an invaluable learning experience, Yvon

Yvon and Paul Prehn
Yvon Prehn and her husband Paul, one Sunday morning at church.

wanted to work primarily helping churches communicate more effectively. Once again, she went out on her own, traveled and taught seminars to churches. She then served as an independent trainer in partnership with the Riso Corporation and for fourteen years she traveled full-time all over North America teaching seminars on church communications to thousands of church communicators.

Yvon has written for many of the major Christian magazines. She has written the books:  Connection Cards, connect with visitors, grow your church, pastor your people—little cards, big results, Back to Basics, Writing and Design Skills for Church Communicators, The Six Strategies of Effective Church Communications, Devotions for Church Communicators, Church Business & Invitation Cards, and many others on church communications.

Currently, Yvon is creating articles, books, videos, blogs, podcasts, and other training to educate, equip and inspire church communicators. Yvon and her husband Paul live in Ventura, CA.

Yvon Prehn, Founder of Effective Church Communications
Yvon Prehn is the founder and primary content creator for Effective Church Communications.

Where to find more Yvon Prehn resources

Many of Yvon Prehn's books are available in ebook versions and are free for Effective Church Communications Members, but they are also available in print and Kindle and other reader versions at the links below:

Yvon Prehn’s books in paperback

A growing choice is available at http://www.amazon.com. Just enter “Yvon Prehn” in the search box to go to her list of books, if the previous link doesn't take you directly to it. ****THERE IS a FREE Kindle version of our best-selling, Connection Cards book at this link.

The regular amazon pricing, shipping, free shipping offers apply.

If you would like to buy books in bulk at a reduced price, or are interested commissioning a
Personalized Special Edition for a training event or conference, contact yvon@effectivechurchcom.com.

Digital versions and downloadable e-books are available from:

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/yvonprehn

This site has lots of free special edition ebooks. It also allows you to download books in any ebook format. New ones are continuously added, so check back often. Please pass on this link to church, mission, and other groups for the free downloads.

Yvon’s digital books are also available from these major online and retail sources, just put “Yvon Prehn” into their search function to find the books or click on the links below. These selections are added to often, so check back for new titles.

www.amazon.com: Kindle versions for download to the Kindle reader available here

Itunes online bookstore

Barnes and Noble online bookstore

Contact information for reprint rights and excerpt rights

To request free reprint permission of articles or contributions to websites or books, email: yvon@effectivechurchcom.com

Any Christian group or church can freely reprint excerpts from this website or my ebooks without bothering to contact me as long as you use the link and citation: from Yvon Prehn, www.effectivechurchcom.com.

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Video: Why your church needs to create multi-channel communications

5 July, 2011 By Yvon Prehn 4 Comments

We have so many ways we can share the messages of our church today, often our biggest challenge is knowing which one to use. The video here is an overview of the communication channels available to church communicators today along with a discussion of the positives and challenges about each one. It also encourages you to create a communication team because no one person can possibly do all the communication in any church today.

This is not a how-to for every channel shown, but an essential OVERVIEW of the church communication channels.

Below the video is a PDF of the handouts for the Video.

This video is FREE for everyone, but the PDF of the notes are for ECC MEMBERS only. We are in the process of adding HD videos for ECC Members, this one was created before we had that ability, but it is still very useful. Membership is one of the best investments you can make in the communication success of your church and is only $9.99 a month or $99 a year for any size church. CLICK HERE for membership information and signup.

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Below is a PDF of the notes for the video above:

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Multi-channel Handouts
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Online Video, Foundation: The Uniqueness of Church Communications

12 June, 2011 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Video: Foundation: The Uniqueness of Church Communications, including the Five Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing and why marketing is not evil

If you are serious about wanting to create communications that will not only look professional, but will make a significant impact on growing your church in numbers and your people in spiritual maturity, this video and the other videos on this site will enable you to do that. It is not quick or easy, but it will be effective. This video sets up the important foundation for what we do and why we do church communications.

Below the video is a PDF of notes and one for more resources.

PDF of the Notes

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Foundation Handouts PDF

Welcome to the first of our Online Video, Foundation:  The Uniqueness of Church Communications, including the Five Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing and why marketing is not evil

If you are serious about wanting to create communications that will not only look professional, but will make a significant impact on growing your church in numbers and your people in spiritual maturity, this video training series will enable you to do that. It is not quick or easy, but it will be effective. This video sets up the important foundation for what we do and why we do church communication

PDF of Additional Resources

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Additional Resources Sheet PDF

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