Effective Church Communications has dozens of Resources, including articles, podcasts, and FREE Templates you can use for all the Easter communications you need for before, during, and after Easter.
These are from our Template and Podcast vaults--we will be creating new ones but many of these designs and the strategy linked to them are timeless.
The FREE templates have all the work of communications done for you: the design, layout, choice of type, and copyright-free artwork is all done saving you many hours. The Templates are in both ready-to-print PDF format (which you can personalize on the back) and easy-to-modify, MS Publisher files. Please let others know about these resources. Following are links to all of them:
All Communications Easter Templates
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We have much more than the Templates themselves because if you are going to be truly effective in your use of them, you need a wise strategy underpinning what you do. The podcasts, article links that follow, and the Church Communications Training course (link at the end) will give that to you.
Podcasts:
What if you did no advertising for Easter
Why just Come to Easter at Our Church isn't enough in your Easter Outreach materials
Beyond the Easter Egg Hunt--how to involve children in Easter outreach
Church Connection Cards, what really works to get people back to church after Easter
What Tesla Can Teach Us About Church Marketing
Last minute helps before Easter
In case you missed these—Essential Easter Communications Templates, ready to print and use
https://wp.me/pDky9-7b9
Last minute checklist for Easter Sunday to assure visitor connections
https://wp.me/pDky9-5pu
Social media images for Easter with challenging messages
https://wp.me/pDky9-8
Communications Before
Why it matters if you invite your friends to Easter services
http://wp.me/pDky9-6YB
Free Church Bunny Easter Invitation to encourage children to be inviters
http://wp.me/pDky9-71c
GIS: Innovative way to invite people to Easter services: "Egg" your neighborhood!
http://wp.me/pDky9-3dI
Easter Invitations and how to use them effectively
http://wp.me/pDky9-6Il
Effective Easter Outreach: Door-hangers, an invitation you can't ignore
http://wp.me/pDky9-2n0
No time? Little money? Essential Easter Communications Panic Pack to the Rescue!
http://wp.me/pDky9-7b1
Communications During
Last minute checklist for Easter Sunday to assure visitor connections
http://wp.me/pDky9-5pu
Bookmarks and Bulletin inserts that explain what you do regularly for Easter Visitors to return
http://wp.me/pDky9-75C
Effective WEBSITE strategy for Children's Ministry Easter follow-up
http://wp.me/pDky9-ip
Expect and encourage questions at Easter, PLUS ways to answer them
http://wp.me/pDky9-1gQ
FREE Easter Jelly Bean Prayer for Children's Ministry
http://wp.me/pDky9-1dn
Resurrection Cookies, a Free recipe that will teach children and parents about Easter
http://wp.me/pDky9-1dD
Make it OK for visitors to reject Jesus at Easter
https://wp.me/pDky9
Don't expect unchurched people to feel the same way about Easter as you do
https://wp.me/pDky9-7t
Connection Cards, why they work best to get people back to church after Easter
http://wp.me/pDky9-79t
Recipe for Greek Easter Bread, an outreach treat for Easter guests
http://wp.me/pDky9-2oK
Communications After
Easter Follow-up: postcards, email messages for coffee & conversation, latte with the pastor
http://wp.me/pDky9-7cq
Post-Easter communication evaluation tips to help your church grow
http://wp.me/pDky9-7cq
Follow-up after a church holiday outreach event: speed dating or relationship building?
https://wp.me/pDky9-27s
Overall Strategy
Look inward before you reach outward: make sure your church is ready for holiday and special event outreach guests
http://wp.me/pDky9-2Sc
What can happen if you if you work hard on your event, but don’t work on event communications
http://wp.me/pDky9-2T6
Clarify the meaning of Easter in all your communications
http://wp.me/pDky9-5H8
Make it OK for visitors to reject Jesus at Easter
http://wp.me/pDky9-5H5
Tune Up your church technology for Easter—FREE PDF download of Ministry Tech Cover Story by Yvon Prehn
http://wp.me/pDky9-740
Lent
Text for Lenten inserts for pre-Easter communications
http://wp.me/pDky9-1bX
Lenten discipline for everyone and a variety of ways to communicate it
http://wp.me/pDky9-3en
GIS: 2 Lenten Calendars, a focus on giving and a focus on prayer
https://wp.me/pDky9-3dX
Misc.
Communications that will get people to come back to church after Easter, why, how to do them, and examples of effective ones
Note: the link above is to a set is from our archives and many of the publications have updated versions in the TEMPLATES section and articles above. However, the overall theory here is an important summary for why you need to do all the things you need to do to get people involved in your church following Easter and I thought it would be useful for you to go through.
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Video Training Course
This video course will show you how to use the resources above most effectively. This course is part of the training videos in the Effective Church Communications Library, where for $36.00 a year you get unlimited access to videos and books. The video on Successful Seasonal Strategies is available at this link: https://ecclibrary.com/b/ovSCp In addition to this course on Easter we have a much longer and more in-depth course on how to use Seasonal Events to not only grow your church in numbers, but your people in discipleship maturity. Using seasonal events in this way can have a huge impact on your church and we strongly encourage you to check it out.
Please share your thoughts, comments, questions!