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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.
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How to make the most of Halloween for evangelism, or the negative results of switching from calling it “Halloween” to a “Fall Festival”

20 October, 2021 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Ghosts aren't real but Jesus is --Resources for Fall and Halloween church outreach
Halloween can be a great time for evangelism and a small handout like this can make a lasting impact at your celebrations.

Halloween—has become such a contentious time in the church. Even mentioning the term "Halloween" upsets some because of its pagan origins.

In response to that many churches have switched from "Halloween" events to "Fall Festivals." I get it; I totally understand but bear with me a minute and consider that changing the name in this way takes away the part of the potential for using this holiday as an evangelism outreach time. This is not another Christian justification as to why you should let your kids go trick or treating, but an attempt to help you see how Halloween can be used as a significant time for evangelism. It really doesn't matter ultimately if you change the name or not but I want you to consider why I even bring up this point.

You can skip my musings on this and just jump down to the free handouts in the article if you want but you might find some of what follows interesting. [Read more...]

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