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Are your church communications accomplishing all you want them to? Are they helping your church grow in numbers or your people in discipleship maturity? Are they helping your church fully fulfill the Great Commission? If you can't answer that positively, you aren't alone. Despite the extraordinary tools we have to create church communications, many churches stumble when it comes to having an overall goal and vision for their church communications. Church staffs work hard and often create lots of great-looking materials, but tying them to any lasting fulfillment of the goals of the church or the gospel is often difficult. To change this, to give day-to-day significance and eternal value to your church communication work you need a worthy goal, a North Star, a plan. Yvon Prehn's book, based on many years of work in church communications, 5 Steps of Effective Church Communications and Marketing, to enable your church to fully fulfill the Great Commission will give them to you. It does this by providing a North Star for all your varied communications projects which is to fully fulfill the Great Commission. Fully fulfilling the Great Commission has two parts: helping people come to know Jesus as Savior and helping them become mature disciples. To fully fulfill the Great Commission, the book recommends 5 Steps of: Invite; Inform, Include, Instruct, Inspire. The book goes through each step and explains the communication pieces, both in print and online, that are needed. It talks about the foundation of discipleship that the plan is based on; how the Five Steps came about; the Strategies and Characteristics that should be part of each step, how to evaluate their Effectiveness in your church, and ends with advice for practical Endurance and additional Resources. The book will transform your church communications from scattered resources into a powerful ministry that will grow your church in size and your people in mature discipleship.

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Yvon Prehn is the founder, director, and primary content creator of the training site for church communicators: http: //www.effectivechurchcom.com, a website that provides practical training in print and digital communications to help churches fully fulfill the Great Commission. Yvon has degrees in English and education, an MA in Church History, in addition to attending seminary and doing graduate work in Communications. Yvon has worked in communication ministry for over 35 years. She was a free-lance 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 Padgett/Thompson, the nation's largest one-day seminar company and she wrote the first book on desktop publishing for the church, The Desktop Publishing Remedy. She worked as a communications consultant and trainer for many of the ministries headquartered in Colorado Springs and was a senior editor at Compassion International and Young Life International. For fourteen years she traveled full-time all over North America teaching seminars on church communications to thousands of church communicators. Yvon has written for many of the major Christian magazines and has written many books on church communications available at the links below. Currently, Yvon is not traveling, but creating articles, books, videos, podcasts, and other materials to educate, equip, and inspire church communicators. She is available for radio and podcast interviews and gives free reprints of materials to any church or Christian group that asks for them. She can also provide specialized webinars and DVD training for ministries or church conferences. Yvon and her husband Paul, live in Ventura, California, where Yvon teaches an adult Bible class and puts into practice what she teaches creating communications for it and other ministries.

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