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.effectivechu ...
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#30 Cautions on writing, creating, sharing personally revealing stories AKA testimonies
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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 Communicati…
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#29 Your Chaplain of Communications—the unique ways Yvon Prehn and Effective Church Communications can serve you
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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 …
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#28 How to Make the Most of Halloween for Evangelism
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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 t…
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#27 Game changer! The loss of comprehension of cursive—what it means to church communicators and what to do about it
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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 writ…
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#26 Church Communications Survey Results and Comments
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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 Co…
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#25 How the 5 Steps and Successful Seasonal Strategy Work Together
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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 wi…
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#24 Successful Seasonal Celebrations
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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 he…
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#23 A strategic plan to grow your church in numbers and your people in spiritual maturity--The 5 Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing
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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 wan…
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#22 What would make you a more effective Church Communicator?
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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…
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#21 A non-technical solution to giving for churches that are not meeting
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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…
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#20 Summer Strategies for Church Communications
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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 t…
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#19 D-Day and Church Communications: with words from C.S. Lewis and memories of my Grandfather as they left England the morning of D-Day
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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 qu…
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#18 Father's Day—Beyond celebration—how to make the ministry most of it to grow Dads spiritually
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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 h…
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#17 SPECIAL PODCAST: Yvon Prehn reading "One Mother's Prayer"
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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 Ye…
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#16 Mother's Day--Make the Most of the Untapped Potential for Evangelism and Outreach
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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 …
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#15 What can happen if you work hard on your event, but don’t have time to work communications FOR the event
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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 agg…
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#14 Was Jesus a Zombie? Consider this question before you finalize your Easter Sermon
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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 Hallow…
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#13 Make it OK for visitors to reject Jesus at Easter
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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 con…
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#12 Connection Cards—What really works best to get people back to your church after Easter is one of the least impressive things you do
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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 …
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#11 Beyond the Easter Egg Hunt—ways to involve children in Easter outreach and evangelism
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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…
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#10 Why just "Come to Easter at Our Church" isn't enough in your Easter Outreach materials
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What do you think it is in your Easter Outreach materials that will draw people outside the church to your Easter Services? We know many people will visit our churches for Easter events—how can we connect them not only with the church, but with a relationship with Jesus? Why just "Come to Easter at Our Church" isn't enough in your Easter Outreach m…
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#9 What if your church did NO advertising for Easter? Or other seasonal outreach times? Try this Biblical alternative!
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What if your church did NO advertising for Easter? No sending out of postcards purchased from some national company that end up looking like the several other churches produce. Hi I'm Yvon Prehn and welcome to the Effective Church Communications Podcast! Today we'll talk about alternatives that you can do in-house--by your people that can accomplis…
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#8 What Tesla can teach us about successful church marketing
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Did you know that Tesla sells more luxury cars than any other company? I was surprised when I read that statistic, but even more interested when I read how they did it. Let me share the terlerati.com comment on it and then I'll talk about how this inspired me about discipleship and church marketing. Quickly, name one advertisement you’ve seen recen…
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#7 Don't default to Magical Thinking when planning your seasonal outreach
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Easter is fast approaching and as we look at all the work ahead, don't you wish that people would magically appear at your events after one announcement from the pulpit or one notice in the bulletin and in social media? Not only that, wouldn't it be wonderful if they'd magically come back and start attending the church regularly after one visit? Bu…
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#6 Hark the Herald Angels Sing--But WHY?
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This is an audio file of our very popular Christmas letter that shares the gospel message of Christmas in the format of a popular Christmas carol.Please listen and be encouraged and download and share with others. Free printable copies of the message can be downloaded at p.me/pDky9-8kH.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh…
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#5 More than a Pretty Face--Free Templates with a Ministry Strategy
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There are lots of church communication templates out there, so why should you use our? First of all they are FREE, but more than that there are 4 reasons why our templates are unique. Next, they are in PDF and MS Publisher format so they can either be printed immediately or easily modified. Most important is that our templates are more than a prett…
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#4 Don't be a Secret Saint, a better way to do outreach!
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Have you ever been in a situation where you do outreach activities or acts of kindness as part of your church, but you never see anybody come to church because of it? Well, I've got some ideas for you that can change that. In today's episode, we'll talk about how if you don't actively interact with the people you are doing outreach to or create com…
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#3 Recognize & win in the biggest challenge in church communications—spiritual warfare
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What would make your work go better as a church communicator? Is it if you had better tools? A bigger budget? More time?Though all those issues are important, we are going to talk about how the work you are doing is more than what it seems--it is spiritual warfare for the souls of people. In our podcast today I’ll give you 5 Suggestions for ways to…
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#2 A Better Way to Use Halloween for Outreach, plus Was Jesus A Zombie?
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Many churches are concerned about the evils of Halloween and that's understandable, but it can be a fantastic time to energize your people for outreach and challenge people with spiritual realities. The question, Was Jesus a Zombie? isn't being irreverent, it's a honest question from a totally unchurched person and completely understandable as Zomb…
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#1 How to not be overwhelmed with technology changes & challenges
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How should you respond when you read something online that by the power of the stories or statistics shared, makes you feel that if you don’t immediately respond to the technology advertised your church will be left behind ….in reaching your world, being up-to-date, or in some other implied way that has you hit the button for a “FREE TRIAL?”We’ll a…
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