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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.

3-23-2024, Personal update on Yvon Prehn—why you haven’t heard from me for some time

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Yvon Prehn Recording a Podcast
Though I LOVE sharing with you, a few life challenges have prevented it for a time--here is the story.

I really dislike talking about myself, and only do it when it affects the Bible805 and Effective Church Communications ministries are affected. This is one of those times. If you are interested in my personal drama, read on, but nothing critical here as after this tale of challenges and some technical modifications that will take a few months to work out the ministries will continue.

It has been a rather challenging few months for me with one illness after another from before Christmas into February, (e-coli infection, RSV respiratory infection, discovered a heart anomaly, that I daily now wear a nitroglycerin patch for). We also started some major much needed updates on our 60+ year old mobile home, which requires packing up and moving everything out (a good time to clean and sort) and then a few weeks ago  I had a severe fall. I was carrying some boxes down the outside stairs, slipped, tried to turn and grasp the rail, but missed and did a dead-drop backward with nothing breaking my fall, and hit my head on concrete.

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Clean Monday, a challenge to recommit to Lent and a focus on becoming like Jesus

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Clean Monday is a time to recommit to Lenten practicesNote: this blog first appeared in my Bible805 website, but I thought we all needed the spiritual encouragement here, so I'm also putting it in for you.

“Clean Monday” is an intriguing label isn’t it?

I thought so when it came across my internet feeds. I like the idea of starting the week, clean and right before God and people. That's a useful thought anytime but I was ignorant that today is Clean Monday, the first day of Great Lent, as Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox refer to the Lenten season. For those of you who have been observing Lent in various ways in the Western church, you are a little over halfway through your Lenten observation this year--following is some encouragement to get you through it. [Read more...]

Free Easter Social Media Images, Postcards, and however you want to use images and messages

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One of a collection of Easter related images and messages you can modify for your use in Canva.
This is one of a collection of Easter-related images and messages you can modify for your use in Canva.

This collection of images and messages can be used in many ways including in all sorts of social media, plus you can download and put them into printed postcards or copy the message for online newsletters or Easter-related posts.

Below the images are direct links to the Canva files where you can download them as is or modify them in Canva for your church.

Click on the first image and it will make it larger so you can see the text.

This is a great set of images and messages that you can use in many ways for Easter.

Here is a short video of them, then a gallery of the images and below them links to the Canva files for the various formats:

Facebook images: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFdnClDdNk/ZYxVEIoYYx9AnCN5Y0EqFg/edit?utm_content=DAFdnClDdNk&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Instagram images: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFdnZhymEU/jdwYs9LAojhSp9JNu0FZeg/edit?utm_content=DAFdnZhymEU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

1/4 page postcards: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFdnJHkgXQ/aGyabTWOS6lI8NJ3aHJhdA/edit?utm_content=DAFdnJHkgXQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

1/2 page postcards: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFdbN5yOUE/nDNz2cf7Yb2zj0I0TmQc-Q/edit?utm_content=DAFdbN5yOUE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Linkedin Images: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFdnJHkgXQ/aGyabTWOS6lI8NJ3aHJhdA/edit?utm_content=DAFdnJHkgXQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

From our vault: Everything you need for Easter: Templates, strategy, inspiration and encouragement for all your Easter communications

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Easter Invitation
This is one of the Easter Invitation Templates. You can link to dozens more from this article.

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: [Read more...]

FREE Valentines Day templates, ideas, plus a reminder to church leaders to be nice to church communicators

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Valentines to remind us of God's love
We all need to hear how much God loves us. These communications will help you share that.

Here is a list of links to articles and resources to help your church make the most of Valentine’s Day. Though many of the resources are specific to Valentine's Day, a number of the cards and ideas are useful any time of year you feel your congregation and community need to be reminded of God’s Love.

Templates: Valentine’s Day Outreach Postcard with room for Church Info

https://wp.me/pDky9-6OU

Valentine’s Day Templates

Below are the sets of Templates with preview images, click on the link at the bottom of the list to go to them.

https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/templates/valentines-day-templates/

Valentines for Church Communication Creators, what church leaders need to do

https://wp.me/pDky9-19E

***PLEASE note—this one is formatted for you to print off (just hit the little print button at the bottom of the page) and give to church leaders. Not terribly subtle I realized, but tell them I made you do it.

Templates: Door Hangers for Valentine's Day Outreach, plus why they work so well for outreach

https://wp.me/pDky9-6OH

Community Outreach for Valentine's Day—a door hanger sample and a postcard

https://wp.me/pDky9-5FQ

These are real-world examples from a contributor and dear friend of our ministry Gayle Hilligoss

Templates: Valentines for believers, remember how much Jesus loves you!

https://wp.me/pDky9-6Oh