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.

Hurricane Sandy Relief–update and appeal from an Effective Church Communications Member

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Pastor Gil Monrose, helping the victims of Hurricane Sandy
Pastor Gil Monrose, shares his projects helping victims of Hurricane Sandy and invites us to join in.

Pastor Gil has been interacting with our site for many years in addition to his many ministries serving God's people. When I got this email, I wanted to pass it on and encourage you to participate. Churches helping those around them is one of the most powerful ways to witness. If you can give money--great--but we can all pray.

To be without power and in the cold--how scary that would be. Pray the Lord turns the current storm away and that many people come to know Him through the love and care of his people.

***At the end of this article, please add in your comments any other links to groups, denominational or those you know and trust for Hurricane Sandy Relief.

Dear Friends,

Oh taste and see that the Lord is good and his mercies lasts forever.  Amen.  Praying that all is well with you, family, and those around you.  I wanted to provide a quick update as to our progress and ways you can help. [Read more...]

FREE Outreach Card for Halloween, a challenge to think about life after death

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Halloween Outreach Card, Side ONE
This card can be printed at home or church and used anywhere to get people to think about life after death and Jesus.

Here is a simple outreach card challenges people to think about life after death. This card can be printed quickly and easily on church copiers, digital duplicators, home inkjet, or laser printers. It is designed to be a give-away, a leave anywhere and everywhere, and as an opener for conversation. At the end of this blog is a zip file with an editable text file, editable MS Publisher files, ready-to-print PDFs and hi-res image versions of the cards.

There are two versions of the card:

1) ALL in One: the message is on one side and on the other side you could print contacts from your church or invitations to events to begin a discussion about the truth of life after death and the only person who conquered death: Jesus.Halloween Outreach Card, all in one version

2) Two-sided version: If your church does not have Halloween evangelism events (many churches don't for various reasons), you can still put these on your website and encourage people to print them at home and distribute them. These double-sided cards have both the challenge and websites for people to check out the truth about Jesus.

 

 

Halloween Outreach Card, Side ONEHalloween Outreach Card, SIDE TWO

One of my personal favorite guerrilla gospel-sharing tactics is to make up lots of these at home and then stash them in pumpkins, costumes, restrooms, or wherever I can in the Halloween super-stores or places like Target or Walmart.

You never know how God might use a little card to get someone to check out a website about Jesus.

Below is the text for the card. Below that is a PDF you can click to download and print out.

Text on the front of the card

Halloween, a fun time for tombstones, ghosts, and all things scary. . . . .
We can laugh at death when it’s part of a Halloween spook house, but we don’t laugh
when it touches someone we love or when we must face it—and that’s ahead of us all.
This Halloween, check out the one person in
all of history who conquered death—Jesus.
On the back of this card are resources to help.
Halloween is fun, but it’s also time to consider eternally serious and truly scary questions.

Text on the back of the card

Life is short; eternity is not.You owe it to yourself to carefully research what happens after you die. We believe your choice is between a literal, real heaven or hell—not a Halloween fantasy.
The sites below are about Jesus and the truth about life after death. Check them out—
http://www.whoisjesusreally.com
http://peacewithgod.jesus.net/
http://www.leestrobel.com/channels/Christ.php

 A PDF you can print out

The PDF below can be downloaded by clicking on the image. Both versions of the card above are in this file. To get access to an editable MS Publisher file that you can modify (if you want to add church info for example) you must be an Effective Church Communications Member and at the end of this article is the link to a ZIP file containing Editable MS Publisher files, the print-ready PDFs, a text file of the contents, plus the images in hi-resolution.

Ready-to-print PDF of Halloween Outreach Cards

ZIP file of MS Publisher original files, images in hi and low resolution, and ready to print PDFs.

This file is free and is a great example of the flexibility you have in how you can change the templates to suit your church and the time you can save in creating communications.

 

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the ZIP File. Save to your desktop and then click to open.

 

Link to link of videos on How to Write for the Web

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On my YouTube channel I've organized a number of the training videos into groups to make them easier for you to view. In addition to the link to that is an article that summarizes what the video series teaches.

CLICK HERE to go to one on How to Write for the Web.

Writing for the Web—suggestions for success

For ministry leaders accustomed to writing for paper-based communications, writing for the web presents new challenges and requires new skills. In this article we’ll discuss some of the differences between paper-based and web-posted communications and what to do about them to help you make your web-posted writing achieve your ministry goals. [Read more...]

How to get the best quality images for PowerPoint-based videos

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Here I'm sharing some of the lessons I've learned as I prepare videos for this training site.

I used to think that since the final result would be shared online, I could save the images at a low resolution--wrong conclusion as this video shows.

Don’t let your people be destroyed by what you don’t communicate

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Challenge from Jesus
Jesus entrusted us with the words of eternal life. We must know His words well to communicate them effectively. (image from FreeBibleImages)

". . . .my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also reject you as my priests.. . . .a people without understanding will come to ruin!" Hosea 4: 6, 14

The responsibility of Christian communicators goes far beyond being sure we select a pleasing typeface and attractive images or using the latest social media to connect with our congregations. We have been entrusted with the words of eternal life. The Great Commission outlines our tasks: we are to share the good news of salvation in Jesus alone and grow followers into disciples. In all of it we are to speak the truth in love.

In addition, as these verses reminded me, not only are we personally responsible for faithfully communicating the truth we have been entrusted with, but our success or failure in doing that has lasting consequences for the people we reach out to, lead, and train. If we don't know the mind of God, if we don't know what is on His heart and His view of what is important, of what good to do and what sins to avoid, we won't communicate that to our people. [Read more...]