Devotions for Church Communicators: The Heart of Church Communications

Devotions for Church Communicators: The Heart of Church Communications

Creating, writing for, and managing and church communications is difficult and this book will greatly encourage, strengthen, challenge, and inspire church communicators in their daily work! To create effective communications in the church whether they are in print, on the web, in digital or physical formats, communicators need more than tools and techniques to be successful in this ministry. This book provides what is needed through a Biblical perspective 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. The book contains not only encouragements, but challenging, thought-provoking short essays that remind church communicators that they serve a holy God and snarky, borderline profane, and shocking or morally suggestive messages have no place in church communications. Finally, it reminds church communicators of the extraordinary value and eternal implications of their work. Heaven will be different because of the difficult, challenging, and faithful work done by church communicators who are the “Great Ones” in the kingdom of God. Yvon Prehn is the founder and director of Effective Church Communications and www.effectivechurchcom.com. For over 20 years she taught church communication ministry, skills, and strategy at seminars, conferences, and national conventions all over North America. She now writes and creates online training materials to equip, inspire and encourage church communicators. Yvon has worked in communication ministry as a writer and teacher for over 25 years. She was a newspaper reporter and religion writer for the Colorado Springs SUN for nine years. 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. She worked as a communications consultant and trainer for numerous Christian ministries in Colorado Springs and was senior editor at Compassion International and Young life International. Yvon is the author of many books, including the first book out on desktop publishing, The Desktop Publishing Remedy, published by David C. Cook in 1994. She has written for many Christian magazines and has been the communication columnist for Christian Computing Magazine for 17 years. Her recent books include Connection Cards, grow your church, pastor your people, little cards, big results. Yvon has a master's degree in Church History and has done additional graduate work in theology and communications. She taught high school English and was an adjunct professor in church history at Regis University. In addition to her formal experience in these areas, Yvon gets the opportunity to practice church communications in very practical ways. She and her husband Paul (a bi-vocational pastor) have worked in many different areas of ministry in the church, including single adult ministry, adult education, and small group ministry. Yvon serves as a Bible teacher, as well as creating all the church communications and marketing materials, both in print and online, for the various ministries and churches she and her husband work with. Yvon and Paul live in Ventura, California. Yvon's seminars, plus her written and web-based materials, have helped thousands of people in Christian ministry and churches maximize their communications and enabled them to use them to help their churches fully fulfill the Great Commission. To contact Yvon Prehn, email her at yvon@effectivechurchcom.com.