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Free excerpt of the ebook Halloween, a great time for evangelism

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Halloween a great time for evangelism ebook
The Apostle Paul encouraged us to "make the most of our time" to share the good news about Jesus. This ebook will help you do it at Halloween.

One of the core teachings of Effective Church Communications is that we can take any seasonal celebration and use it as an opportunity to share the gospel.

It might seem that one of the more challenging holidays to apply that teaching is Halloween but in reality, it is one of the easiest ones. That's because this is the one time of year when people are thinking about the afterlife, of life after death. Granted the secular view of this is distorted, but it does make a great bridge to a discussion about the reality that we are eternally existing souls.

Most people believe they will live forever, but the question is, if we are going to live forever, what neighborhood will we live in?

Halloween acknowledges there is a neighborhood of hellish horror and evil. Though people might make fun of it, they can't help but wonder what truth there is to the existence of demons and everlasting punishment. Along with that is the almost universal belief or wish, if you will, of an afterlife of light reunited with loved ones.

But how can you be sure?

Halloween gives Christians the opportunity to share why they believe that Jesus is the only Savior who conquered death and who can give us eternal life and peace and a home in the neighborhood of joy if we trust Him as Savior.

The book, Halloween, a great time for evangelism is filled with ideas, tips, plans, and communications that will help you do that.

For a free download of an excerpt of the book, click the following link: Excerpts from Halloween Book

The complete book is part of the Effective Church Communication Library; click the following link to sign up for the ECC Library and download it: https://yvonprehn.podia.com/ebook-halloween-a-great-time-for-evangelism

Why everything sinful about Halloween makes it perfect for Outreach!

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Halloween outreach
How to take what is evil about Halloween and turn it into a reason to share about Jesus!

Lots of churches don't do outreach events at Halloween because they think they are sinful--but this brief video shows you how the very things that make Halloween sinful and repulsive to many church people--the focus on death, the supernatural and similar things are what make Halloween a PERFECT time for outreach.

We can use these topics and the interest people have in them as bridges to conversations about Jesus. The video here shows you how the Apostle Paul did that and how we can use this time of year to do it in our communities.

CLICK HERE TO go to LINKS to motivation and tools to help you share the good news about Jesus at Halloween

A Case Study to help you be more successful in recruiting volunteers, using Trunk or Treat as an example

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Sucessful fall church outreach
Fall is a great time for church outreach and the ideas here will make sure you get enough volunteers to make your event successful.

Yvon's note: though this material and the video is several years old, it has some extremely useful material that will help you be successful in your fall outreach. Consider the production values and artwork a retro memory and learn from the timeless principles represented.

Recruiting enough volunteers is always a challenge for any church event and few are the churches that report they have enough. When the event takes place and there are not enough people, not only is it tiring for the staff and the volunteers that are there, but it is spiritually trying also. When this happens, we ask ourselves:

Why didn't more people help?
Don't people care about their neighbors?
Doesn't outreach matter?

These and many other questions haunt us and make us hesitant to be enthusiastic about upcoming events.

In evaluating many instances of this kind, I've put together the online Video below that has a Case Study with specifics and samples that I trust will help you be more successful in recruiting people for your next church outreach event.

As you can imagine (this being a church communication ministry) I believe that the primary problem with not getting enough volunteers is in the communication that comes from the church—the problem is not in our people, but in us. Often we don't communicate nearly as well as we think we did to let people know how much we needed their help or even, as you'll see in the case of Trunk or Treat, even what the event is about.

This video would be excellent to watch with your church staff. Remember you can click on the little box of arrows at the bottom of the video to blow it up full size on your screen. Simply hook up the computer to a projector and you can show it to the entire staff. [Read more...]

An overview of Halloween outreach materials

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Here is a great collection of communications you can use to invite, connect with and follow up with your community on Halloween.

Halloween provides a great outreach opportunity for churches to make connections with their communities. It takes a lot of communications to do that effectively and we've got everything you need from motivational bulletin inserts for your church, invitations, postcards, registration and connection cards for the events themselves.

The video below gives you a preview of them and below the video is a link to download the communication files. They include ready-to-print PDFs and editable MS Publisher files. The files are free for Effective Church Communications Members. They are only available to ECC Members--and are one of the great benefits of ECC Membership. CLICK HERE to find out more about how to become a member and to sign up.

Below is the link to the files for ECC Members.

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To download the files that are illustrated in this video, CLICK HERE.

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LINKS to motivation and tools to help you share the good news about Jesus at Halloween

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Halloween Resources
Invitations, videos, motivation, sign-in cards & more--whatever you need for Halloween outreach, there are links here.

In church communications, we do what we do because we believe that the eternal destinies of people depends on how they respond to Jesus. We know that–but in the midst of long days and overwhelming demands it is easy to forget.

Halloween gives us an opportunity to use our communications to challenge people to explore the claims of Jesus--but it takes a lot of work to do that. The communications below will help you:

Just click on the links below each entry to go to the additional information. [Read more...]