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Church communication is one of the most challenging ministries because it is the connection hub of the entire church. To do it effectively requires more than the latest images, social media, and technology tips. You need timeless strategy, inspiration, and Biblical challenges that work no matter what tech tools and channels you use, the size of your church, or age of your audience. You'll get them here. This podcast is part of the ministry of Effective Church Communications, www.effectivechurchcom.com. Go there for articles, resources, training, and templates that are ministry-effective. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yvon-prehn/support
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Storytelling is very popular currently. Just today I got yet another promotion of a
“Learn How to Tell Stories” webinar.
Though storytelling is perennially popular, our Bible is made up of stories, after all, we must also be aware of some cautions in it—and that’s what this podcast is all about….
Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn with Effective Church Communications and today I’m in my role as a curmudgeon and want to share some cautions and advice concerning stories, that we in the church more often refer to as “testimonies.”
For the blog that goes with this and many more resources for Church Communicators, go to https://www.effectivechurchcom.com
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There are many useful resources available online to help you in your work as a church communicator. Considering that I was recently thinking about what makes my ministry of Effective Church Communications useful for you—what to expect from me that is unique or different from what is available from other sources.
Though I’ll break it into practical parts for you shortly, overall, I realized a good label for me would be Your Chaplain of Church Communications. This covers what I do, as a chaplain is defined as one—
Who provides spiritual care and resources
Is a mentor and a reassuring and trustworthy presence
Who assists with the spiritual, religious, and emotional needs
Caring for your spiritual needs and providing resources for you as a church communicator is foundational to what I do for two reasons:
The spiritual importance of who you are as a church communicator.
The unique ways I can help you be more effective based on the spiritual, Biblical foundation of the resources of Effective Church Communications.
The podcast will go into these topics in more depth. For the blog post and links related to it, go to: https://wp.me/pDky9-9Ey
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Halloween—it has become such a contentious time in the church. Even mentioning the term "Halloween" upsets some because of its pagan origins.
In response to that, many churches have switched from calling "Halloween" events to "Fall Festivals." I get it; I totally understand but bear with me a minute and consider that changing the name in this way takes away some of the potentials for using this holiday as an evangelism outreach time.
What follows is not another Christian justification as to why you should let your kids go trick or treating, but an attempt to help you see how Halloween can be used as a significant time for evangelism. It really doesn't matter ultimately if you change the name or not but I want you to understand why I even bring up this point. The Apostle Paul said we should be all things to all people that we might win some and my contemporary paraphrase of his imperative of evangelism is that we need to use EVERY opportunity, every holiday, every time that we can to introduce people to Jesus.
Please consider what I'm about to share in this podcast and I hope you'll agree that Halloween can be one of the best times of the year to motivate people to consider the gospel.
To download FREE copies of the materials mentioned in the podcast on the Effective Church Communications website, CLICK HERE.
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This topic is incredibly important for you to understand before you do ANY more outreach advertising, encouragement, or communications creation of any kind if you want the maximum number of people in your church and community to be able to read them.
The reason for my urgent message is the realization that many people today cannot read cursive writing and that includes ALL the wonderful script fonts we like to use so much in our designs for church communications. That includes the group of templates I had ready to send out to you that I need to update. (Sigh.)
This is not a happy post for me to write. I don't like change any more than the average person and to have to change something as basic and natural to me as writing cursive and using wonderful script fonts in communication design just seems like a bit much to deal with.
When I am feeling grumpy like this I remind myself that the communication I do isn't about me, but about a world that needs Jesus and NOTHING should be too much to do, little or big if it can help us reach them. So I slap myself, ask for forgiveness and create a podcast, blog, and video about it.
First I'll give you a little background on how I became aware of the loss of the ability to read cursive and then some very practical steps on what to do about it. Please go to the link here on the Effective Church Communications website for a printed version of this podcast and for the link to the video I did illustrating how you can make changes in response: https://wp.me/pDky9-9BJ
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A few weeks ago, I did a survey to find out more about what church communicators are using currently and what they need to do their work more effectively.
In today’s podcast, I’ll talk about the Results of the Church Communications Survey Summary, I'll give you some comments on it and what we'll be doing in response to it in the Effective Church Communications Ministry.
For a transcript of the podcast, go to the link here: https://wp.me/pDky9-9zZ
To sign up for the Effective Church Communications ministry newsletter and get notifications of the new free templates, training and related materials CLICK HERE.
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Seasonal events are an easy and natural way to invite guests to church—that begins the process
They are ALSO a way to grow your congregation as disciples—that helps complete the process
This podcast will go through each step and illustrate how to practically accomplish each step with Easter communications--keeping in mind that the same processes will work with every holiday or special event.
For more resources, training, inspiration, and free templates to help you become a more effective church communicator, go to https://www.effectivechurchcom.com.
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Churches often have a great turnout for a special event or holiday, but few have the same number returning the following week. This podcast will show you how to change that and make holidays and celebrations time to grow your church in numbers and your people in spiritual maturity.
For more resources, training, inspiration, and free templates to help you become a more effective church communicator, go to https://www.effectivechurchcom.com.
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Why do you do all the hard work you do in church communications?
In the podcast today I want to inspire you with a practical strategy to create communications that will help your church fully fulfill
the Great Commission.
All churches work hard to communicate their message and events to the people in the church and those outside the church they want to reach. However, most church communicators would agree that they are not as successful as they wish they were.
They try new tools, new designs, new media campaigns, and still many churches are not growing in numbers, and even more disappointing for church leadership, many in the church are not maturing in their faith.
What you need to turn around declining church attendance and spiritual maturity--
What you need isn't another media campaign, new technology, or catchy design. You need a strategy—a strategic plan that will work no matter what your denomination, budget, or the media preferences of your church that will grow your church in numbers and your people in spiritual maturity.
The Five Steps of Effective Church Communication and Marketing will give you that strategy.
CLICK here to go to the Effective Church Communications website where there are links to a chart and downloadable video that will further illustrate this strategy any church can implement to take people from outside the church and grow them into mature disciples.
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Church Communicators do an extraordinary job and often with little training for their demanding work. In this episode, I want to introduce you to an exciting new resource for you--the Effective Church Communications Library.
In the podcast, I'll share what motivated me to put this resource together and some specific areas it can help you with.
Here is the link to go to the Effective Church Communications Library: https://yvonprehn.podia.com/ecclibrary
For many more resources to help you in church communications, go to: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com.
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To meet the challenge of how to keep donations coming into churches when they can't meet together is to emphasize or launch online giving. And though it's a great solution, it isn't realistic for every church, either financially or because a number of people in the church simply will not use it.
To solve that challenge this podcast proposes an idea that will not only keep needed financial donations coming in, but that will minister to the scattered members, some of whom may be lonely and afraid.
Technology is wonderful, but sometimes non-tech solutions can be solved in simple ways.
For more information on church communications, and for the links mentioned in the podcast, go to https://wp.me/pDky9-8OO
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Whoever wrote that song, "Summertime and the livin' is easy" did not work in church communications.
The pace and type of activities change in the summer, but with Bible camps and special events, there is a lot of work to be done.
Hi, I'm Yvon Prehn and welcome to the Effective Church Communications Podcast!
In our podcast today I'll give you some tips for more effective summer communications. Please go to the website www.effectivechurchcom.com for FREE TEMPLATES of communications that you can use for effective outreach this summer. There are many more on the site for communications at other times, so check it out.
Here is the direct link to the FREE Templates: https://wp.me/PDky9-7oe
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Today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day and while we commemorate and honor the sacrifices of those who stormed the beaches of Normandy I think it is appropriate to remind everyone who is involved in Church Communications that you are daily involved in storming the strongholds of Satan to win people to Jesus.
To do that I want to share 3 things:
A quote from C.S. Lewis and how it applies to us as church communicators
A challenge for church communicators about the reality of spiritual warfare
Finally, a memory of D-Day from my adopted grandfather as they were boarding the boats to take them from England to Normandy.
For the rest of the content and to hear my grandfather's story, go to: https://wp.me/pDky9-8w0
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It's easy to look at Father's Day as just another holiday to do up a special bulletin and social media for and to say a few nice things about Dads during the church service. But did you know you can do so much more as communicators for Jesus?
We need to constantly remind ourselves in the crush of trivia and distraction that our job is not to be a holy version of Hallmark where our goal is to have the most appealing Father's Day social media and PowerPoint ever, but that our primary job in communications, as in all of life if we are followers of Jesus, is to grow as his disciples and to share his message of salvation—in other words, to fully fulfill the Great Commission.
This podcast will inspire you to see how much you can do for Fathers on their special day, plus preview and provide church communications tools and templates that will help you do all the things we talk about.
The free templates and resources for Father's Day are at: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com
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This short piece, One Mother's Prayer, is a true story that is both an encouragement to pray for children and an assurance of the power of prayer to change a destiny.
The written version been published more times than anything else I've written. It was first published in Today's Christian Woman magazine. Then it was included in their Best of Ten Years of writings, it has been reprinted and republished all over the world, and it continues to bring tears to the eyes of any group I read it to.
This year I decided to record it and I'll put the embed code at this link: https://wp.me/pDky9-5HO
You are free to use it any way you want and share it however you want.
In addition to the audio file at that link is also a Free ZIP FILE of PDF formats: 2 more 8 1/2 by 11 plus 4 other versions on half sheet size plus the jpgs of the larger files and an MS Word text file if you want to create your own publication.
This is a great resource not only for Mother's Day, but any time of the year for Mom's groups and prayer groups.
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Mother's Day gets the third highest attendance at church right behind Christmas and Easter. What churches often forget is that the large increase in people does not come from more Mothers attending--they are there every week! It comes from the unchurched children and spouses who show up to make mom happy on her special day.
Churches that recognize this and use church communications in a way that makes the most of it can make it a day truly worth celebrating for Mom's because nothing is more wonderful to a Mother than for her child to come to know Jesus.
This podcast will give you an overview of some of the strategies and communications you can use to give Mom's what they want more than anything else for Mother's Day--a way for their unchurched spouses and children to come to know Jesus.
For access to the many FREE TEMPLATES that will help you do this, go to: https://wp.me/PDky9-7d0
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Will you get the same number of people the Sunday after Easter that you have on Easter Sunday?
We know we won’t, but in Today’s podcast we’ll talk about how you can increase the response by what you do on Easter Sunday.
First, I'll share the true story about a church plant of 300 (growing and doing well) that had an off-site Easter service they aggressively marketed. 1,500 people showed up for the Easter service, but the Sunday after Easter, they were back to 300, because of a simple, easy-to-correct mistake.
I'll share with you why that happened and how you can prevent it from happening to your church.
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Was Jesus a zombie? Please understand, there is no irreverence or shock value intended with this question. It was an honestly asked question from someone who was totally unfamiliar with church.
After I got over my shock of being asked this question (and a short time later I was asked it from someone else), I did a podcast that coincided with Halloween, but I think it is also appropriate for the Easter Season so I am re-recording it for Effective Church Communications.
The rest of the podcast is primarily directed towards people outside the church, but I'm sharing it with church communicators and I hope with Pastors and those who prepare sermons for Easter to help you remember that if you did a good job on outreach to get unchurched people to come to your church for Easter, you need to think carefully about the audience you'll have. Many more people than those of us who grew up in the church can imagine did not grow up with ANY exposure to the church or the Bible. The implications of that reality are vast. You can't count on them knowing anything about the true story of Jesus, but they will come into the church with many pop culture ideas about life after death. I can't tackle them all, but now I'd like to tackle just one aspect of it—the question of........Was Jesus a Zombie?
For a copy of the script of this podcast and for links to the free templates you can use to connect with people who visit your church for Easter go to: https://wp.me/pDky9-8tm
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What are your expectations for Easter at your church? Especially for those that are visiting for the first time and who may be totally unfamiliar with the Christian faith?
In answer to that question, I'd like to propose that you Make it OK for visitors to reject Jesus at your Easter Service and in our podcast today I'll tell you why.
Before you consign this podcast and the blog that goes with it to me being a total heretic who thinks "everybody gets saved in the end, no matter who or what they believe in" —be assured nothing could be further from my intention. I take very seriously the truth that if people do not have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ (and only Jesus Christ, no other savior) they will spend eternity in endless suffering separated from God. That's why I want to share 5 reasons why you need to make it OK for visitors to reject Jesus at Easter.
Be assured, we won't stop at their rejection, but I'll give you suggestions on how to move that rejection into exploration and ultimately acceptance. While you are planning ways to invite people and your PR for Easter, keep these ideas in mind and realize that Easter is just the start of a relationship with unchurched people.
CLICK HERE for the blog and links to FREE templates that will help you connect with visitors this Easter.
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Many churches go all out for Easter celebrations: special music, drama, free food, an Easter egg hunt or petting zoo for the kids. Though all these things are fun and may impress visitors with the ability of your church to put on a special event, there is one thing they probably won't do—get people to return to church the next Sunday. Almost every church experiences disappointment the Sunday after Easter because few of the visitors return.
It doesn't have to be this way. In this podcast we'll talk about 3 Reasons why big, special, Easter events won't get people back next Sunday. That's the bad news. The good news is that one of the least impressive things you do, the lowly communication tool of a Connection Card, can do what the big events can't. The big events might get people there on ONE Sunday, but it's the quiet link the Connect Card provides that will help them come back.
On the Effective Church Communication website, CLICK HERE to go to a downloadable collection of Connection Cards that are in both ready-to-print PDF format and editable MS Publisher files.
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Many churches hold Easter Eggs hunts of various kinds, petting zoos and other events for the children of their communities and that’s wonderful, but here are some ideas for ways that you can involve the children themselves in outreach and evangelism for Easter. In addition to the resources for children, I have a resource you can use to help parents share the true meaning of Easter with their children and the children of the neighborhood.
Here are the three Resources that I’ll talk about:
· Invitations for Children to give their friends
· The Jelly Bean Prayer
· Resurrection Cookie Recipe
These resources and many more free templates and tips for Effective Church Communications are at http://www.effectivechurchcom.com.
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