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Welcome to the Effective Church Communications Library

This ECC Library is an online library of eBooks, training videos, and resources that will inspire you, train you, and give you resources that will enable your church to create communications from a solid Biblical base and always with the ultimate goal of helping your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission.


Though you can purchase the materials individually, all the Effective Church Communications eBooks, videos and other resources in this shop and the ones continuously added are available as a library for one yearly ($36) price.


ONE subscription to the ECC Library gives you permission to make as many copies as you want for church staff, your communication team, or to train or share with church communicators. This is an incredible deal for any church!


Need ideas? Need an overall vision/strategy for your church communications ministry? Need encouragement and biblical guidance for your work? Need tips and resources to make the most of seasonal events to reach your community and grow your church? Need timeless how-tos in how to create communications beyond the latest social media or technology tip?


The Effective Church Communications Library can help!

Following are the categories of the eBooks, videos, and church communications resources in the ECC Library to make it easier for you to find what you want. ALL are available through the one subscription price. As new materials are added subscribers will receive notification of them.

The Effective Church Communications Library, SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: all eBooks & videos $36 a year

eBook: Successful Seasonal Strategies, to grow your church in numbers and your people in spiritual maturity

$7.99

Fathers Day Strategy

Free

Video: Father's Day Strategy and Resources

$4.99

Strategic Summer Communications

$4.99

eBook Strategic Summer Communications

$4.99

Video: Successful Seasonal Strategies

$4.99

Video: How the 5 Steps and Seasonal Stategy Work Together

$4.99

eBook: Divide Your Communication Team into 2 Levels

$2.99

Celebration of Father's Video

$4.99

Make the Most of Your Final Opportunity to Influence Your Graduates

$1.99

eBook: Mother's Day, and the often-missed evangelism and spiritual growth opportunities

$1.99

Video: Mother's Day--make the most of the best outreach Sunday of the year!

$4.99

eBook: 5 Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing

$8.99

Video: The Five Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing

$4.99

About Me

Hi, I'm Yvon Prehn, author of the books in the ECC Library.


I started writing about church communications since before the computer was invented (seriously). I was a published writer from when I was 16 years old and along with writing for a secular newspaper and Christian organizations, I was a teacher. Computers and desktop publishing came along and that meant teaching about writing now involved the computer.


That led to more writing and I wrote the first book on desktop publishing in the church, then many additional books, hundreds of articles, and blog posts. 


In addition to writing about church communications, for over 20 years I traveled all over North America teaching full-day seminars on church communications, interacting with communicators from many denominations, plus being actively involved in creating communications for my church, my husband who was a bi-vocational pastor, and the ministries we were involved in.


I founded Effective Church Communications, with a website, videos, and other resources for church communicators. I continue to create content and new resources for it.


The materials in the ECC library are training videos and eBook versions of previously printed books, collections of articles, blog posts, and a variety of materials from decades of work. I have many more I'm putting into eBook format and notices of them will be posted on my Effective Church Communications website and social media.


If you want more details about me or the Effective Church Communications ministry, click the links at the top of this page.


The resources in the ECC Library, the free Templates, and free courses on my YouTube channel are all for you and my prayers and blessings are for you as you create effective communications for our Lord!


Why the Effective Church Communications Library is needed

Church communicators are expected to have skills in many areas. They are required to be marketing management, and software experts, brilliant graphic designers, layout experts, and copywriters, all with a wise Biblical foundation and effective strategies to grow churches in numbers and believers as disciples. Plus, since church communications is one of the most strategic and spiritually important areas of the church, they are often subjected to very real spiritual warfare as we have an enemy who does not want to see them succeed.


To be a church communicator is an extraordinary calling and often one entered without any of the necessary skills. My heart breaks for the thousands of them I’ve interacted with over the years, while I am astonished by their bravery and what they accomplish with the skills and tools they have.


To be of service to them, I was fortunate enough to be trained early in the days prior to computers by some great teachers in the communication fields. I learned to write, design, do typography, and layout in painstaking and detailed ways. I was given invaluable training which I was able to then translate into digital skills when the computer came along.


Based on that foundation and what I’ve learned since then, I have a vast amount of material that is useful for church communicators that I am in the process of making available in the Effective Church Communication Library.


To make it more manageable, I have organized the training videos, eBooks,and collections of articles into the following categories. Some are in more than one, but I’ve tried to make them useful for you to find what you need.

·       Strategy & Biblical Foundation for Church Communications

·       Seasonal Strategy overall and for specific holidays

·       Images, sources, how to use effectively

·       Specific Communication Projects, Print & Digital

·       Leading & Managing a Church Communication Ministry

·       Social Media, commentary concerning it

·       Graphic Design, Writing, Typography