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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; Effective Church Communications can help.

We could all use good news now and here is the best news—all about salvation in Jesus

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Good news is found in Jesus
When so much of the world is filled with bad news, there is good news to be found in Jesus. Check it out and be encouraged!

Pandemic, crazy weather, racial injustice, and political turmoil—wherever we turn, bad news fills our world. There is one place the news is good—in the good news about Jesus. Many call this the gospel.

There are two reasons why it’s essential to explore the gospel now. First, for those of us familiar with the gospel, we do well to remember what great news that is, no matter what else is going on. And for those who aren’t familiar with it, this news has implications for you far beyond the hysterical headlines that currently fill your news feeds. The gospel is good news, the best news ever.

Why the gospel is GOOD NEWS

Good news. That is the dictionary definition of the term gospel. The question to answer next is, of course, “What is the good news?” or “Good news about what?”

The best answer to that question is in the Bible, where John 3:16 tells us that: “God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

The good news is that God didn’t sit up in heaven, watching humanity make a mess of their lives and their world. He did something about it with extraordinarily important implications for people both now and eternity. To explore the good news in more detail, let’s look at our situation and what God did for us.

Without God, making a mess of our lives is pretty much what we do.

It doesn’t take unique insight to know our world is a mess right now. But now, let’s look away from the world. [Read more...]

FREE Easter Jelly Bean Prayer for Children’s Ministry

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Jelly bean prayer

By using the colors of Jelly Beans, this prayer is a visual way to share the gospel message to children—and to the adults with the children—sometimes candy isn't nearly as intimidating as a sermon.

It is useful at Easter to enclose in goodie bags, to use as an invitation, use as an illustration during a lesson or children's sermon.

The one to the right is an easy download for everyone, just CLICK HERE or on the image to download a ready-to-print PDF of it. Additional designs are illustrated below.

Additional Jelly Bean Prayer Designs

To see the images larger, click on the first one and a slide show will come up.

To download the Jelly Bean Prayer file, click the following link: Jelly Bean Prayer

At the end of this article is the text for the Jelly Bean Prayer that you can use to create materials for Easter for Children. [Read more...]

Church Invitation Cards, business cards with an eternity-altering purpose

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Free church invitation.
Make up cards like this for your church members to invite others to church. Links to a FREE copy of this one and others is at the end of the article.

How do you get unchurched people into your church?

Despite all the high-tech and expensive advertising methods available today, one method remains the most effective way to get new people to come to your and that is a personal invitation. Your members inviting their friends to church beats any advertising campaign at any cost.

While it is sometimes sadly true that once someone becomes converted, they soon have few friends who are not believers, no one totally withdraws from the world. Most people still work at secular jobs. Everyone has many contacts a week with people in the business community: the waitress or waiter at the coffee shop, the Starbucks employees, the clerks at various stores, the person standing next to them in lines at the grocery store, airports, or the driver’s license bureau, the person sitting next to them on the bus or subway. [Read more...]

A resource for gently and relationally sharing your faith online: yesHEis.com

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The Internet Evangelism site is an extensive resource for inspiration and instruction for sharing your faith online. Each year they celebrate Internet Evangelism Day with a special focus on sharing your faith using the tools technology makes possible. This year the celebration is on April 21, but the resources available on the site are useful all-year round.

I haven't been able to do as much as I wanted to with IE Day this year (coming between Easter and Mother's Day is a bit of a communication challenge for U.S. churches), but the site itself and the resources on it are one of my most highly recommended resources for churches. As I was looking over the current resource list I found a new one to me: http://www.yesHEis.com. This site has an unusual approach in that it isn't a typical "apologetic site" where you hammer people with truths about the Christian faith.

Not that there is anything wrong with that approach--sometimes it is exactly what is needed (as a drill sergeant's daughter I've been known to use that at times)--but not always--this site has a totally different approach.

Here is how they describe themselves and below it is a very brief video explains it.

We here at yesHEis exist to help you share your faith online.  Whether it be a new video that shares the gospel, helping to answer the tough questions that come back your way, or exposing new technology you might find helpful, we’re here to help in any way we can.

Here is the URL for the site: http://www.yesHeis.com

We are told to be "all things to all people that we might win some" as we communicate our faith and this is a great tool to help us do that.