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		<title>Make it OK for visitors to reject Jesus at Easter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you consign this article to yet another heretical &#8220;everybody gets saved in the end, no matter who or what they believe in&#8221; blog—be assured nothing could be further from my intention. Because I take very seriously the truth that if people do not have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ (and only Jesus Christ, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchcommunicationsblog.com&#038;blog=8525446&#038;post=1107&#038;subd=churchcommunicationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>True story here about a lost opportunity to share Jesus:</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Communication Evaluation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What not to do]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our area, one church frequently does a compassionate outreach at a Laundromat in an area of town where many homeless people do their laundry. My husband, who is a bi-vocational pastor and who does handyman work to support our ministry habits, was on a job recently with a homeless young man. When he overheard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchcommunicationsblog.com&#038;blog=8525446&#038;post=1101&#038;subd=churchcommunicationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why words are more important than images in church communications</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[power of words in church communication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No matter what tools we use to create our message; no matter what channels we use to share it, the one thing that never changes is our core content. Our content, permeated with the truth of the entire Bible and culminating with a call to salvation and discipleship in Jesus, must be the anchor of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchcommunicationsblog.com&#038;blog=8525446&#038;post=1099&#038;subd=churchcommunicationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>4 ways to demotivate church communicators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to read secular office management and communication advice on the web for tips and ideas that can apply to church communications and a very helpful one read recently was: 8 Surefire Ways to Demotivate Your Employees. There are plenty of applications we can all draw from the article and at first, I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchcommunicationsblog.com&#038;blog=8525446&#038;post=1087&#038;subd=churchcommunicationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Church communications give a voice to the silent and shy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication Creation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[church invitation cards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can be loud&#8211;really loud. Not obnoxious loud, not loud when I speak normally, just loud in volume when necessary. I often joke that it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m the daughter of a drill sergeant, but regardless of the reason, if a group of people at church want an auditorium of milling adults and kids to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchcommunicationsblog.com&#038;blog=8525446&#038;post=1081&#038;subd=churchcommunicationblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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