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Below are screen shorts of the VIDEO OVERVIEW of print communications from Effective Church Communications. They include Motivational Bulletin inserts, invitations, sign-in cards, evangelistic material to give out at the event, and follow-up materials.
If you'd like a closer look at them, CLICK HERE to go to the Halloween Materials Overview Video.
To download the ZIP files that have all of these, scroll to the end of this article. [Read more...]
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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...]
Many people forget that Halloween is a great time to share your faith. That's because it is one time of year when many people are thinking about death.
Though secular views are distorted, this provides an opportunity to start a discussion about the one person that conquered death--Jesus. To encourage your people to use this time of year to share their faith, I prepared this Halloween-themed bulletin insert.
It was designed to be used on a church bulletin insert, but it can be put into any regular communication with your congregation: email; newsletter, website, whatever you can think of, to motivate your people to use every event of the year as an opportunity to bring their friends to church and introduce them to Jesus. [Read more...]
We've all heard the phrase, "a picture is worth a thousand words"-- a phrase which I consider one of the most meaningless and destructive phrases to meaningful communication ever coined. That is because without words, the proper response to that statement is, "which thousand?"
I just posted a blog that discusses the importance of carefully crafted words in our church communication.
Here I want to answer the question: does that mean we can't use images?
Following the excerpt below from what's written in the blog, I want to illustrate what I mean by the feedback loop of meaning between images and words. [Read more...]
