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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; we can help.

MS Publisher Templates: Church Business & Invitation Cards

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Image of Templates of Bus cardsTo make it easier for you to put into practice what you just learned (if you attended the Webinar or watched the video) about Church Business and Invitation Cards, we have some MS Publisher Templates for you. You need to have MS Publisher, but the images you see are all templates ready for you to edit, personalize and use.

Click on the image to download a larger PDF full-page preview of the images.

To be able to use and edit them, they are in a zip file below

Just click to download, save to your hard drive, open and enjoy!

For more information on Church Business & Invitation Cards, to watch videos about them and read more articles, click here.

Click here to download the zip file.

 

Video: How to create resizable maps for Church Invitation Cards and other communications

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Church Business and Invitation Cards can be powerful outreach tools, but to accomplish all they can and should for your church you need to pack as much useful information in them as possible. One key piece of information is a map to your event.

Even in these days of Google Maps, Mapquest and GPS, a simple, paper-based map is invaluable to give people an immediate and practical way to get to your church or event. It is a challenge to provide one because if you try to use one of the maps from the Internet they have too much information to shrink down in size.

You need to create your own simplified version. This is very easy to do with MS Publisher and the short video below will show you how.

IMPORTANT NOTE before you watch the video:

This video shows you how to take a screen capture of a map and then use it to easily create your own map in MS Publisher. I used Snagit, my favorite screen capture program and one I highly recommend to do the screen capture. If you do not have Snagit or any screen capture software, here are two options:

  1. Get a free trial of Snagit at www.snagit.com
  2. Go to this excellent article about free screen capture software and download one of the products. I have not used these (keep wanting to try one, but love Snagit so much....), but this is a trustworthy site just click the URL and it will take you to the site: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-screen-capture-utility.htm

Video: Church & Ministry Business & Invitation Cards

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These tiny, but powerful tools can be used for PR, outreach, information and caring. This 12-minute video will give you the motivation for doing them, an overview of how they can be used, plus a number of how-tos for easy creation and production.

Any size church or ministry, on any budget can use these to can equip your people to effectively reach out to their friends and neighbors with them.

For additional articles, templates, many more materials and how-tos related to business and invitation cards, CLICK HERE to go to the listing of additional materials.

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Handouts for Bus card seminarTo download a copy of the notes that go with the video, click here or on the image.

Creation of Men’s Logo in LogoSmartz, Webinar On-Demand

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This little video shows how easy it is to create a logo for men's ministry using the very inexpensive logo-creation software, LogoSmartz. After you watch this video, be sure to watch the video on how to use the logo created here to make a business or invitation card for men's ministry using it.

One little note: LogoSmartz has updated their software since I created this video, so the interface has a slightly different look. But it is still pretty much the same and all the things I demonstrate in this video you can still do.

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e-book: Why newspaper ads don’t work and three alternatives that do

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Why ads don't workThis e-book position paper shows why newspaper ads, which have long been a core part of church advertising, are no longer effective in reaching an unchurched audience. Church hoppers look at them, but few seekers.

The PDF gives some suggestions on ways to improve your chances of creating effective ads as well as the alternatives that are far more effective: creating business and invitation cards and equipping your people to use them. Additional materials on this website (listed below) will help to make your creation of these cards effective.

You have permission to make as many copies of this as you'd like to pass on to your church staff or church communication team. It would provide useful background reading for your next discussion of church outreach methods.

This PDF e-book download is free for members and is available either on the CD about Church Business and Invitation Cards or as part the e-book, Church Business and Invitation Cards at www.lulu.com/yvonprehn.
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For ECC Members:

Click here or on the image to download the PDF.

Much more training on Church Communication and Business Cards is available for ECC MEMBERS:

For members of this website, there is additional training and resources for you including:

Videos:

  • Overall, how to create and use them
  • How to Create a Logo for Men's Ministry Card
  • How to Create Men's Ministry Business Invitation Cards
  • How to Create Resizeable Maps

Book:

On Business and Invitation Cards

Templates:

A great variety of Business and Invitation Card Templates in MS Publisher that you can download and use.

All of these materials are available in the Church Invitation Cards tab, under Core Communications and are free for members.