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Church Communications Planning, Measuring, Evaluating done a new way—big is busted, try tiny! More Detail
Church Communications Planning, Measuring, Evaluating done a new way—big is busted, try tiny! By Yvon Prehn
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This book is a practical focus on planning, measuring, and evaluating our church communications to help you make sure that your time and money spent in creating church communications accomplishes the... More > goals of your church. The book looks at the details of planning that form the foundation of a solid church communication program. It then goes into the use of FORMS that will help you gather and organize the facts and the information people need to connect with your ministry or event. The forms will also help you measure and evaluate your communications and enable you to understand what is really effective and what isn’t in your ministry communications and marketing. This approach works in any size church, with any budget. While much extravagant multimedia is only possible on a big budget, any church can make use of the tiny, but significant tips, ideas, and changes suggested in this book to make a significant difference in the impact of your communications.< Less
Church Business & Invitation Cards, outreach, PR, caring and information all in one More Detail
Church Business & Invitation Cards, outreach, PR, caring and information all in one By Yvon Prehn
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Church Business and Invitation Cards combine PR, outreach, caring and information all in one. This book has overview information, production ideas, samples of various kinds of cards, plus lots of... More > samples of real cards used in a variety of churches. *** This special edition also contains the position paper: Why Newspaper Ads Don't Work and Three Alternatives that Do--and Church Business Cards are one of them.< Less
How to be more successful in recruiting volunteers for churches More Detail
How to be more successful in recruiting volunteers for churches By Yvon Prehn
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Recruiting volunteers is always a challenge and this 17-page e-book will help you do it successfully. It will show you detailed step-by-step how to create a brochure that explains the event... More > volunteers are needed for, why they should participate and exactly what they are needed to do. People don't volunteer because they don't care, or aren't interested, or are lazy--in the church it is more often because we haven't really communicated the importance of it or have given people the directions they need to do it successfully! This book will guide you and inspire you to recruit in a way that will bless your people and help your church.< Less
How to create FREE websites & blogs with WordPress.com, pt.1 More Detail
How to create FREE websites & blogs with WordPress.com, pt.1 By Yvon Prehn
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WordPress.com is incredible, FREE software that you can use to create church, ministry, or personal websites with. This 17-page e-book walks you step-by-step with how to do the basics. You do not... More > need to be a tech geek to do this. Anyone with a computer, access to the internet and basic email or word-processing skills can create a free, great-looking website or blog.< Less
Writing to reach today's audiences on paper or the web More Detail
Writing to reach today's audiences on paper or the web By Yvon Prehn
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Writing to reach people today means you have to unlearn many of the things you did when you were writing in school. In that setting you wrote for your teacher, you padded things (to get to the... More > required number of words), you used big words to impress. That may have worked for your teacher, but it doesn't work today either on paper or on the web. People today are very busy, but that doesn't mean you quit writing materials with significant content for them. This book, which is a collection of 36 pages of Yvon Prehn's most helpful articles on writing will enable you to write visually, write in levels, and write with a tone that will accomplish the message goals of your church or ministry. The advice in the book works for both paper or web-based communications.< Less
Back To Basics, foundational communication skills for church communicators More Detail
Back To Basics, foundational communication skills for church communicators By Yvon Prehn
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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... More > 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!< Less
Church Connection Cards, connect with visitors, grow your church, pastor your people More Detail
Church Connection Cards, connect with visitors, grow your church, pastor your people By Yvon Prehn
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People visit our churches every week and for special events, but if they don't tell us they are there, we can't connect with them. Our people come to church every week, but if we don't know their... More > needs, we can't help them. Connection Cards can do all this and so much more. This 8 1/2 x 11 in., 110-page book gives 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 how to make sure you get the largest number of people to fill out the cards, specific ways to manage your follow-up to most effectively serve the people who filled them out, lists of what you need to have in place for follow up, and how to triage (divide into levels of ministry need) the cards so you can respond to people in a timely manner. This book is an invaluable tool if you want to connect with visitors, grow your church and pastor your people.< Less
Devotions for Church Communicators More Detail
Devotions for Church Communicators By Yvon Prehn
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Doing church communications is hard and this book will greatly encourage and inspire you in your daily work! You need more than tools and techniques to be successful in this ministry. This book... More > provides what you need through 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. It will remind you that your work has extraordinary value and eternal implications. In addition to serving as a personal encouragement, this book makes a great gift for anyone working in church communications.< Less
Articles and Reproducible PDFs for Easter More Detail
Articles and Reproducible PDFs for Easter By Yvon Prehn
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This 31-page reproducible collection of PDFs contains articles for pastors and church leaders, reproducible bulletin inserts for Lent, Easter, and follow-up, plus bookmarks, and a GREAT handout for... More > Resurrection Cookies that has the recipe, how-tos, and Bible verses. This collection has material on CD and some that isn't and is easier for folks who don't want to wait--download today and get started printing for Easter!< Less
A new way to plan, measure, and evaluate church communications--Big is busted, try tiny! More Detail
A new way to plan, measure, and evaluate church communications--Big is busted, try tiny! By Yvon Prehn
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This book teaches you a new way to plan and evaluate your church communications. It encourages you to not rely on big, splashy, fancy PR and images, (not that you can’t use them, just... More > don’t rely on them alone) and to focus on the tiny details of facts, careful planning, and follow through that will actually connect people with ministry events, not just impress them with your creativity. This book contains a series of FORMS that will guide you through a variety of planning and evaluation processes. The forms are essential tools for churches of any size or budget who want to make certain their communications are accomplishing the ministry vision of the church and helping your church communications fully fulfill the Great Commission.< Less

About yvonprehn

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Yvon Prehn is the founder, director, and primary content creator of the training site for church communicators: www.effectivechurchcom.com, a website that provides simple, practical training in print and digital communications to help churches fully fulfill the Great Commission.

Yvon has worked in communication ministry for over 25 years. She was a newspaper reporter and religion writer for the Colorado Springs SUN. When desktop publishing was first invented, Yvon was a top-rated, national trainer in desktop publishing for the nation’s largest one-day seminar company. She worked as a communications consultant and trainer for many of the ministries headquartered in Colorado Springs. For 20 years she traveled and taught seminars on church communications to thousands of church communicators.

Currently, Yvon is focused articles, videos, blogs, and other training materials for www.effectivechurchcom.com from her home in Ventura, CA.