If you are looking for resources on church communication that work, you've come to the right place!
These publications come from me, Yvon Prehn, and my ministry to church communicators, Effective Church Communications. They are not fancy, high end, unpractical materials, but practical, useful pieces that have come from my twenty-plus years in church communications ministry, from teaching seminars and working with thousands of church communicators all over North America, and from my own work as a pastor's wife, Bible teacher, and church communicator.
The materials are primarily in downloadable PDF or CD formats. The CDs contain a variety of materials including videos, PDFs, and editable files on the CD topic. For all of my materials I grant you permission to make copies to share within your church.
Please visit my website: www.effectivechurchcom.com to sign up for my newsletter so you will be notified when additional material is posted and to find out more about how my ministry help you in the challenging and wonderful task of communicating the gospel message.
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eBook: FREE A collection of Christmas communication files including articles to motivate your outreach, a church bulletin insert to motivate your congregation, ideas for advent booklets and Christmas letters. Finally, a complete file of one of my favorite Christmas outreach pieces "Hark the Herald Angels Sing, but why?" You have my permission to copy and reproduce any of these or modify and use them in any way you'd like!
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Download: $7.50 Effective church communications are ones that enable your church to fully fulfill the Great Commission. This 106-page book teaches you you a complete communication program, using print and web-based communications that takes people from outside the church to mature discipleship.It includes The Five Steps, with charts and overview of each step, the history of its development, the key place of discipeship in the plan, the strategies and characteritics of each step and advice on how to implement this program in your church. If you want your communications to make a significant impact on the growth of your church and your people, you need this book.
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Download: $25.00 This is exactly the same book in content as the previous one with the same title, but it is a higher price for those who are able to contribute to the development of the Effective Church Communications ministry. PLEASE BE AWARE that LULU does not tell me who you are--they are an independant sales company that carefully guards your privacy. There is a thank-you certificate in the book and you do have my very heartfelt thanks. Yvon Prehn
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Download: $7.50 The theme of this book is that “The church bulletin is the most important piece of printed Christian literature outside the Bible.” This is true because for many people in our post-Christian world, the church bulletin might be the first piece of Christian literature they ever see. What's in it may determine whether they stick around your church and explore the Christian faith or walk away. For your church attendees the bulletin is the link between casual Sunday attendance and the events of the church that can help them grow to Christian maturity. This 96-page book is filled with articles, how-tos, and samples to help you create church bulletins that will touch and change lives. You've got to put out a bulletin every week anyway, get this this book and make your bulletin a powerful tool for church outreach and growth.
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Print: $15.95 Download: $8.95 People visit our churches every week, but if they don't tell us they are there, we cannot connect with them. Our people come to church every week, but if we don't know their needs, we can't help them. Connection Cards can do all this and so much more. This 8 1/2 x 11 in., 90 plus-page book will give you detailed ideas, advice, samples, and a ministry plan to make connections, grow your church, and serve your people using this seemingly small, but very powerful ministry tool.
The book gives detailed instructions on not only how to make sure you get the largest number of people to fill out the cards, but specific ways to manage your follow-up to most effectively serve the people who filled them out by detailing what you need to have in place for follow up and then how to triage (divide into levels of ministry need) the cards so you can respond to people in a timely manner.
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Print: $19.97 Download: $12.50 This book is your source for essential, basic church communication skills in design, layout, graphics, typography, writing, planning, proofing, and management. You need these skills to create professional, quality communications for your church.
Illustrated with real examples from church communications, this book is designed for church workers who do not have professional graphic arts training.
It is simple, basic, easy-to-follow and will make anyone who studies it a more professional communicator. This edition is a republishing of Yvon Prehn's extremely popular book Tap the Power of Desktop Publishing for Your Church or Ministry! Book is spiral-bound to make it easy to reference while working on communication projects.
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Print: $11.95 Download: $5.00 Beyond tools and techniques, this little book, provides a Biblical basis for how to keep your heart focused on what is unchanging: our Lord, his Word, and your calling in church communications to fully fulfill the Great Commission.
With one entry for each week, this book will encourage and equip you to do your best in your work as a church communicator.
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Download: $5.00 Church leaders should be involved in communications planning to make certain that the vision of the church is carried out and that people respond. This booklet of handouts shares articles, a book chapter, and PDFs of charts and a PowerPoint presentation by Yvon Prehn that will help anyone involved in church communication be more effective in planning and evaluating their communications ministry. The PowerPoint Presentation goes along with a Yvon Prehn communication training video available on www.tangle.com (just search Yvon Prehn), but you don't need to view it for these materials to be useful.
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Print: $9.50 Download: $2.50 Traditions, tips, and
suggestions to make the typesetting of
your print and online, digitally-created church communications professional-looking, readable, and effective. Articles, book excerpts and examples of church communication typesetting from Yvon Prehn. Part of the basics and more series. This is in the process of being updated and the price will increase.
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Download: $1.00 This 13-page download overviews the power and use of business cards for church and ministry outreach, PR, and information. It contains tips, samples, and resources for successful outreach ministry using these cards.
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