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.

Devotion #14: Do all you do with love or it’s just noise

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Leave empty if the image is purely decorative.Title Love lots Instagram Post Caption Description Copy Link https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Love-lots-Instagram-Post.png ATTACHMENT DISPLAY SETTINGS AlignmentLink ToURL https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Love-lots-Instagram-Post.png Size Selected media actions 1 item selected Clear Insert into postHow can we share love with our church communications?

So often we share news or invite people to something or teach or challenge them, but how do we show love?

Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and Welcome to The Devotions for Church Communicators Podcast!

As you’ll see today, without love in our communications we are just making noise and how to do that is what I’ll talk about today.

As always in this short I want to help you focus on God’s Word, the incredible calling you have to share God’s message of salvation, and to strengthen and encourage you.

This podcast is from me, Yvon Prehn and my ministry Effective Church Communications.

Below is the podcast and below it a transcript of it:

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