Effective Church Communications

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

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

Training course: How to use Mother’s Day to Grow your Church, Evangelize, and Disciple

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For specific ideas and communications to make the most of Mother's Day, check out the course on the Effective Church Communications Training site: How to use Mother's Day to Grow your Church, Evangelize, and Disciple. CLICK HERE to go to it.

 

 

The Sunday after Easter— 5 questions to ask if your church didn’t get the return numbers you wanted

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Your post-Easter or any event evaluation is extremely important for future ministry success, especially if you didn't get the return response you wanted.

For almost two months before Easter, the primary focus of most churches is on how to get the most people possible to the Easter service. With a tremendous amount of work and effort, for most churches, Easter is a fantastic success in terms of numbers of people attending. Also, however, for most churches, the following Sunday is often a big disappointment, with few of the new people at Easter coming back the following week. Following are 5 questions that will help you evaluate why that happened and to plan for next year.

After each question are links to articles that give practical solutions to the challenges presented. Download, file away and save these for next year and make next year's Easter return rate the best ever. [Read more...]

In case you missed these or didn’t have time to do much—Essential Easter Communications Templates, ready to print and use

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Last minute Easter Communications
You may have missed some of these essential Easter communications, so here is a list of the most useful with links to take you to them.

Here is a quick list with links below the title of the useful communications for Easter: 

FREE Easter Communication Essential—a panic pack for churches with no time and no money!
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Simple one-color printing Templates for Connection Cards, two Easter Bulletin inserts and a Children's handout.

Connection Cards, why they work best to get people back to church after Easter
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Full Color designs of Connection and Prayer Cards for Easter.

People will have questions after Easter—how to help
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An Easter Bulletin insert that encourages people to ask questions and where to go for help.

Easter Follow-up: postcards, email messages for coffee & conversation, latte with the pastor
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Don't go AWOL after Easter! What you need to follow-up with Easter visitors.

FREE Easter Jelly Bean Prayer for Children's Ministry
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A must-have for everything you give out to children at Easter--a child-friendly way to share the good news about Jesus.

For an overview of all Easter Communications Templates, CLICK HERE.

 

 

Last minute checklist for Easter Sunday to assure visitor connections

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Easter checklist of church communications
You work so hard to prepare for Easter--here is a list to make sure it is successful in helping you connect with people who need to know Jesus.

In addition to making certain your Easter celebrations themselves are joyful and honoring to the Lord, take some time to make certain that the guests that come for Easter Sunday return next week. Following is a checklist and some links to help make that happen.

__Involve every member in your Easter outreach

In social media reminders, individually, and every opportunity you have, remind your current church members that the Easter celebration isn't just for them and their families. Remind them everyone is responsible to:

  • Invite their friends,offer a ride, be sure they come
  • Be a greeter and  welcome guests as representatives of Jesus
  • Invite friends new or people you meet to brunch afterwards to talk about the service
  • Invite friends and guests back to church
  • PRAY without ceasing that God would touch hearts and people not only enjoy the service, but that they meet Jesus

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FREE Easter Communication Essential–a panic pack for churches with no time and no money!

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Easter Connection Card B&W Panic Pack
You don't need fancy publications to connect with people at Easter, but clear useful ones that get the job done.

In all the hard work before Easter, lots of communications are needed to connect visitors to your church, to answer questions, to explain your church and bring people back. To do to accomplish all these goals takes extra time that many who work in church offices don't always have.

You are probably working on fancy, colorful pieces such as a special church bulletin or program as your main communication, but a colorful and well-designed bulletin, as beautiful as it might be, isn't what will connect people with the church or bring them back next Sunday.

In addition to what will impress, ask yourself: "what are the most important communications churches need to create to get key connecting jobs done?"

As I thought about that goal and the communications needed to accomplish the goal of connecting people with and bringing them back to the church , I came up with these: [Read more...]