🌟 Hello, Church Communication Leaders, Pastors, and Teachers! 🌟 As January settles in, bringing with it the serene mid-winter chill, we extend our warm greetings and embrace the season's tranquility. In this newsletter, we share inspiration that we hope will be a cherished treasure for you. Your steadfast dedication to your vocation is deeply appreciated. WOULD YOU LIKE US TO COME TO YOUR CHURCH? We are adding dates to our schedule this year to help Carolina churches with their communication and AV needs. If you would like to get on that schedule, please contact us with the reason for your request and what needs you have. We will do our best to help! |
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Creating Sermon Reels for Your Churches Social Media |
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Unlock the power of digital evangelism through OpusClip, offering seamless clip editing tools like trim, extend, and filler word removal. Elevate your branding with up to five shared templates featuring custom fonts and logos, ensuring a consistent message. As one observer noted, "Most churches convert far fewer people than they should because they aren't evangelizing digitally utilizing short videos. OpusClip helps churches share their message digitally." Experience it for yourself with a complimentary upload by clicking the button below. | | |
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Here are a couple resources you may like to use for your church. |
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| | Local church communicators will find Canva invaluable for its user-friendly platform, offering a wide array of customizable templates and design tools. It simplifies the creation of eye-catching promotional materials, newsletters, and social media content, ensuring effective and professional communication to engage and connect with their congregation effectively. | | |
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| | For local church communication leaders seeking guidance, Kem Meyer is a must-visit resource. With her wealth of expertise from Wall Street Public Relations to local church communication director and her book Less Chaos. Less Noise. In it, Kem offers valuable insights and strategies to help streamline and improve communication within your church community. | | |
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Guidelines to Follow for Church Announcements |
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From our favorite Church Communication YouTuber: Brady Shearer Brady Shearer, a dedicated church communicator, strives diligently to keep people informed about church activities. He finds it disheartening when someone mentions that they "didn't even know that event was happening." In his extensive experience, Brady believes that the issue lies not with the church communicator but with the announcements themselves. In light of this, he presents three essential rules for church announcements that can significantly enhance their effectiveness. |
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President's Prayer Partners, Praises and Petitions (P5) |
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Do you subscribe to or read the P5 when it's posted on Facebook? If you have not, you do not want to miss this monthly eNewsletter from our President. Elder Louis shares various items of interest happening around the conference, the Southern Union and the North American Division that God has placed on his heart to uplift in prayer. Join us! | | |
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Evangelism IMPACT Feb. 1-4 — Myrtle Beach, SC Register Romance @ the Ranch Feb. 9-11 — Nosoca — English Feb. 16-18 — Nosoca — Spanish Awaken Conference Mar. 1-3 — Nosoca |
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Alive Youth Rally Mar. 1-2 — Spartanburg Singles Ministry Retreat March8-10 — Nosoca Register Welcome to the Family April 26-28 — Nosoca Register |
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* Remember to check our website for info on upcoming events. |
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Resources for Members Kathy's Kids Storytime is more popular than ever! We are excited to announce that we have passed the quarter of a million download mark, with listeners from around the world! Available on all major podcasting outlets.
Joy in the Weeds: This is our podcast hosted by Beth Grissom and Kim Cove. It's brought to you by Women's Ministry, but men are welcome to listen as well. This, too, is available on all major podcasting outlets.
Don't forget to download the Conference App (available on Apple, Google and Amazon Fire devices) to stay connected with the Conference during this time. Make sure notifications for the app are turned on so that we can push information out when there are urgent updates.
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Article Submissions As always, we want to hear your stories! We have made it easy for you to submit articles for publication. Every article that is submitted is used, either in the Carolina Action, in the Southern Tidings, on the conference website or on the conference Facebook page. Where the item is published is at the discretion of the Conference Communication Department. | | |
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PLEASE tell us what you, our local church communicators, want in next month's e-newsletter. These publications are meant to help you with your responsibilities in the local church, and we would be happy to cover any topic you have questions about. Let us know what you want to learn! |
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