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.

Typesetting for kid’s communications

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PDF of Typesetting for Kids publicationsCreating communications for children can be lots of fun, especially with the fun typefaces you can use.

This PDF gives you some guidelines to make your use of them more effective. Though it has some useful tips, the companies cited are no longer in business, but http://www.fontspace.com/ is and below are some of their current fonts that are great for children:

All the fonts above are from:  http://www.fontspace.com/ and are free downloads.

Google fonts also has a great selection of free fonts

One very important guideline to keep in mind is to NEVER use the typefaces that have reversed letters (such as a reversed "e" or "s"). It might seem like that would be a harmless, cute thing to do, but when little children receive a printed piece from a respected person in the church and the penmanship is all wrong, it can be confusing.

Have fun, do kid-friendly things, but always remember the position of authority and influence you have in young lives.

To download the PDF, click here or on the image.

note: this PDF is from Yvon Prehn's archives and is the only format of this article available presently. Not the greatest quality to be sure, but shared with the belief that the content is useful.

The Five Commandments of Effective Typesetting

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PDF of the Five Commandments of Desktop PublishingWhen you create communications with the computer you are immediately in the role of a typesetter, but without any training.

In addition, if you first learned to type with a typewriter, many of the habits you learned, (such as two spaces after a period), though correct with typewriters, are completely incorrect for a typesetter.

This chart gives you a quick overview of some of the most common changes you need to make in how you handle typesetting.

Please download, study and follow these guidelines on typesetting your church communications and your communications will look much more professional.

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note: this PDF is from Yvon Prehn's archives and is the only format of this article available presently. Not the greatest quality to be sure, but shared with the belief that the content is useful.

Typography: an overview and key guidelines for effective design

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Typography Chapter PDFType is one of your most powerful design tools and even though we can easily change typefaces, it takes much more to learn how to use it effectively.

This PDF includes sections on how type is measured, how to choose typefaces, and rules for usage.

To download a copy of the PDF, click here or on the image.

note: this PDF is from Yvon Prehn's archives and is the only format of this article available presently. Not the greatest quality to be sure, but shared with the belief that the content is useful.

Typography: a powerful tool to create effective church communications

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Type is one of your most powerful design tools and this book excerpt will help you use it effectively.
Type is one of your most powerful design tools and this book excerpt will help you use it effectively.

Type is one of the most powerful design tools you have in creating effective church communications.

Even though we are not always aware of it, we've all grown up with a typography vocabulary. For example which one of the two examples below is a headline and which is text:

THIS ONE?

or

this one?

You didn't even have to think about it did you? Bigger, larger, bold means headline; smaller and not bold means text. There are many more unconscious ways we read type and to be an effective communicator you need to understand them and use them wisely. This PDF chapter excerpt will help you do that.

To download the PDF, click here or on the image.

note: this PDF is from Yvon Prehn's archives and is the only format of this article available presently. Not the greatest quality to be sure, but shared with the belief that the content is useful.