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Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission

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Video for your end-of-summer encouragement: When life gets stormy

17 August, 2012 By Yvon Prehn 2 Comments

As summer draws to an end (or winter progresses if you live in that hemisphere...forgive the mixed up seasons), we sometimes feel like we are in a storm of things that need to get done. Life seemed to be sailing along smoothly and then BAM! We get hit with waves we didn't expect.

If we are following Jesus, we need to remind ourselves that though He never promised smooth sailing He does promise to bring us safely home. Though we know our ultimate safety is assured, it helps to be reminded that the shorter journeys on the way are also under His control. To help you remember and be encouraged, I created this video for you.

This was created using the fantastic Free images from FREE BIBLE IMAGES, http://www.freebibleimages.org.
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Friday Miscellancy #2: FREE Bible Images, How to create a Video Bible Lesson, How to text without a phone

15 June, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

FREE Bible Images, a video review

This is a different kind of free image site. They have both illustrations and photos. They are different from other sites of free images that are mostly individual, unrelated images, in that they are in sets of images intended to be used as sets for Bible teaching.
As a Bible teacher, I really this because in the past I've had to search through many sites and images to get ones to go together to teach a topic. With this site they are already collected and ready to use. If anything, I've found they have more than enough needed.
In addition, though the pictures and images are historically and geographically accurate, they do not have any text or scripts other than the Bible reference so that there  is no cultural or language bias.
CLICK HERE to go to a video review of the site.

How to create a video Bible lesson with www.freebibleimages.org

Free Bible Images is a very interesting company that provides quality photos and images for teaching Bible stories. (CLICK HERE to see the video review of it). One way to use them is through animoto, which gives you a way to create videos. I really enjoy using animoto to create short teaching and thought-provoking videos. Below is the video I created about the topic of if God cares when we mess up, using one of their photo sets about the prodigal son. This video took me much less time than similar ones I created in the past because all the images were available instead of me having to find them, modify them and put them in order.
CLICK HERE to go to the very short (under two-minute) video I created with them.

Want to text your congregation, but don't know how to text?

As the Apostle Paul told us, we need to learn to be "all things to all people that we might win some," and today that often means making use of new communication technologies. Texting is one of the most popular ways to communicate today, but few church offices make effective use of it.
I just discovered a company, (actually they discovered me, more about that later) call-em-all that will text for you with a system that allows you to create text messages on your computer and then broadcast them to the people who on your list. They also have broadcast phone systems that you can do from your computer or a toll-free number.CLICK HERE to find out more.

Your people, your church greeters--a very important communication tool

Sometimes we work so hard on our printed and digital connections we forget about the most important one of all--our people. Chris Walker, aka, the Evangelism Coach has a great article here about people who were so upset with the rudeness of church greeters, they wrote it down on a response card. Studies show that for every complaint someone actually takes the time to write about, there are many more upset people, who don't take the time to write.
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Why you don't need to share your personal life on Facebook

We try new media tools because of the Biblical mandate to "be all things to all people to win some." But just because we try different tools to communicate our ministry, doesn't mean these tools can or should be used in the same way by everyone. If you are in a ministry that requires 24/7 social media interaction, and you love it—what follows is not for you. It's for people who may be very tech savvy, yet feel vaguely guilty and inadequate, for not sharing their personal lives to the digital world.
Here are 5 reasons why you don't have to feel guilty if you want to use Facebook and social media primarily for professional ministry news and updates and not for personal sharing:
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FREE Bible Images, a video review

15 June, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

This is a different kind of free image site. They have both illustrations and photos. They are different than other sites of free images that are mostly individual, unrelated images, in that they are in sets of images intended to be used as sets for Bible teaching.

As a Bible teacher, I really this because in the past I've had to search through many sites and images to get ones to go together to teach a topic. With this site they are already collected and ready to use. If anything, I've found they have more than enough needed.

In addition, though the pictures and images are historically and geographically accurate, they do not have any text or scripts other than the Bible reference so that there  is no cultural or language bias.

Below is a video review of the site and after that a link to a short video I created using the images.

How to use the images to create Bible teaching videos CLICK HERE to go to the video and instructions on how to create them.

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