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Fall Festival and Halloween Resources, invitations, registration cards, encouragement flyers, lots more

10 October, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Resources for Fall and Halloween church outreach
This is a great time of year to reach out to your community and these will help you do it effectively.

Lots of good stuff here!

Some new, some a few years old, but all for you to use as you'd like.

Just click on the link below the title. Please pass on to other churches and friends.

A non-scary way to share your faith at Fall Festivals and Halloween
https://wp.me/pDky9-8h4

How to make the most of Halloween for evangelism and the true Christian view of life after death
https://wp.me/pDky9-9lu

Was Jesus a zombie—NO irreverence intended, but an honestly asked question and an answer
https://wp.me/pDky9-8gP

FREE TEMPLATES for Fall Registration Cards, Invitations, Halloween Evangelism
https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/templates/templates-harvest-festival-and-halloween/

Halloween, a great time for evangelism…..really!!
https://wp.me/pDky9-6xB [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Fall Festival and Halloween Tagged With: connection cards, FREE Halloween Church materials, Free Halloween invitations, Free Harvest Festival Materials

Connection Cards for Mother’s Day–essential tools for follow-up

8 May, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Mother's Day Connection Card, free card
Click on the image to download a free, ready-to-print PDF of this card.

Connection Cards are vitally important for your Mother's Day outreach success, because if visitors don't give you their contact information, you won't be able to follow-up with them. You might have a huge attendance on Mother's Day, but if the next Sunday is back to your usual numbers, you've missed a great opportunity to connect.

If you give church visitors an opportunity to share a question or a prayer request, you will be amazed at how many people will share with you. If you follow-up promptly and compassionately, you will make a significant connection.

To save you time in this important task, I've created some cards that are ready for you to print and use. The files below are part of a ZIP file below.  For each of the cards illustrated below it has:

  • A PDF ready-to-print file
  • Editable MS Publisher file
  • PNG image (perhaps you want to add it to a PowerPoint announcement and encourage people to fill it out)

Additional designs of Mother's Day Connection Cards

This file is FREE and the link is at the end if the article.

The additional designs: various styles, clipart, photo images, spot color of the Connection Cards that are in the ZIP FILE:

Mother's Day Connection Card, free card

 

 

FREE DOWNLOAD OF ZIP file:

CLICK HERE to download your file.

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Filed Under: Church Connection Cards, Mother's Day, Seasonal Tagged With: Church Connection Cards, church visitor cards, connection cards, Mothers Day Connection Cards

Connection Cards for Christmas

13 December, 2011 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

FREE Christmas Connection Card
Click on this image to download the FREE PDF file; all the other images below are part of a file for Effective Church Communication Members.

After all your hard work to get people to come to your Christmas events, you want to make sure you make a connection with them so that they will return to your church after the holidays. To do that you need to capture names and contact information.

These Connection Cards  for Christmas are a simple-to-create, but very useful tool. The one to the left is free for everyone, just click to download the PDF, print and use.

At the end of this article is a link to a ZIP FILE that has ready-to-print PDFs of all the images below, including  two versions that can be printed with color separations if you have a digital duplicator.

In addition  the ZIP file contains editable MS Publisher files of all the cards plus hi-res images of them. The ZIP FILE is free also. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Christmas, Church Connection Cards Tagged With: Christmas Connection Card, Christmas Visitor Card, Church Christmas Connect Card, Church Connection Cards, Church Visitor Card, church visitor card template, connection cards, Free Church Connection Card

Connect with invisible visitors: an overview of Church Connection Cards Resources

20 September, 2010 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Church Connection Cards
Here links to a video, articles, books on how to make the most of Connection Cards.

The people who visit our churches are often lost souls for whom Jesus died--we cannot let them pass through our church as invisible visitors without making a connection with them, if we are to be disciples who are working to obey the Great Commission.

It doesn't take big gestures and huge budgets to make those connections. As the song says in this and every other situation of relationship building "little things mean a lot."

One of those very important little things in building a relationship with visitors  are Connection Cards. I have experienced many times in personal ministry and have seen at many churches, I've worked with how Connection Cards can grow a church, make people feel cared for, and do more for a church growth than anything else tried at the church. [Read more...]

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Connection Cards, a wonderful example as a tool for ministry interaction

15 July, 2010 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

I knew Connection Cards were great to use as a tool to reach out to visitors and to pastor your people, but one church uses them in a great way to get people involved in the various ministries of the church. A wonderful church communicator sent me this story and I wanted to share it with you.

Hi, Yvon,

I must tell you how valuable your sight has been to me.  Keep up the good work!

Plainfield United Methodist Church has been relying on Connection Cards for about a year.  What a wonderful opportunity to connect people with other people, new ministries, service opportunities as well as learn what’s on people’s minds!  They provide a wonderful way to share prayer concerns of our congregation with our prayer chain.  We keep addresses, emails, phone numbers updated through this media.  Of course attendance is registered by using these cards.

When we first began using these cards, pastors provided time during the service and we all completed the cards at the same time.  Our thinking was that if the pastor set the example and provided the time, we could encourage everyone present to complete a card.  By having our regular attendees continue to complete their cards each Sunday, it serves as an encouragement to guests to complete one.  Therefore, we have the names of our guests along with their contact information.  Most of the time, they will tell us if they are new to the community or just passing through.

The key to making the cards work is to keep the requested information current.  For instance, we have just completed a series entitled “Come Hungry”.  We asked the congregation if they were willing to reflect and share what they learned about themselves through this series.  They could write their comments on the card or they could email a pastor.  Most chose to write their comments on the card, but some indicated they would contact one of the pastors.  We also recruited teachers for our upcoming VBS through these cards.  There is plenty of room for people to make prayer requests.

On Mondays I enter all this information in a table and share that table with the pastors.  The table contains the name of the person making the comment or request, their contact information and the information that is to be shared.  Some of the information is for specific groups such as our prayer chain, our music department, some is for seeking certain information.  It just becomes a matter of copying  and pasting the information into an email addressed to the appropriate person or group of people.  We are very careful to be sensitive to confidential information.  Follow-up to requests is essential – after all, we requested the information, assured them we would be sensitive to how it is used – so follow-up is important.

I will attach two of the two-sided cards to this email for you to see.  They were created in Publisher.  Perhaps they will show better how we update them each week.  We print them here at our church on 81/2 x 11 cardstock that has been perforated in thirds by a local printer.  Having them perforated certainly saves us a lot of time when it comes to inserting one card inside each Sunday worship folder.

Again, thanks so much for all you do to guide our communication in serving.

Blessings, Sue

A second email from Sue (came a week or so later)

I just found out that the Communication Card that we’ve been using originated from a book entitled Fusion:  Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church by Nelson Searcy with Jennifer Dykes Henson.  I didn’t realize that the card is pretty much what is on page 168 of the book; however, we have personalized it for our purposes.  I thought that you would need to give credit where credit is due.

I LOVE getting stories of how church communications have worked for you. Please send your stories and samples, along with permission for me to use them to: yvon@effectivechurchcom.com. Thanks so much!

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