Pastor Appreciation Flyer Templates are geared towards usage for church anniversary events, especially for Pastor’s Appreciation Month. Pastor Appreciation Flyer Template are great for Banquets, Anniversary Balls, Commemorations, Independence Celebrations, Church Anniversaries, Thanksgiving and Christmas events etc. Pastor Appreciation Flyer Templates Pastor Anniversary Events Rack Card Template Pastor Anniversary Church Flyer Template: Harvest Pastor Anniversary Rack Card Template-Harvest Pastor Appreciation Gala Church Flyer Church Celebration Flyer Template Renewed Strength Church Flyer Clergy Anniversary Flyer and Poster Template Clergy Anniversary Rack Card Template Pastor Appreciation Dinner Church Flyer Pastor Appreciation Church Flyer Church Anniversary Flyer and Poster Template Pastor Appreciation Church Flyer Pastor’s Honor Church Flyer The Right Man for The Job Church Flyer Lifting Up Tired Hands Church Flyer Lifting Up The Man of God Church Anniversary Flyer and Poster Template Church Anniversary Events Rack Card Template Starlight Pastor Anniversary Vol. 2 Community Pastor Appreciation Flyer Poster Template Hope Pastor… read more
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Beautiful Free Fonts Round-Up #1 Finding a free fonts to say exactly what is on your mind is sometime tedious. If you know where to look, it makes your job much easier and you can then get on the road to designing your masterpiece. I rounded up some Free fonts for you in this, our first font roundup which can be used for Flyers or Poster. If you are creating a church campaign, consider using a typeface that will catch the attention of those you are trying to reach. You can see examples of how we use fonts on our Graphicriver Collection. We hope the fonts will inspire you to create something great. Have fun 🙂 Lovelo Inline ZIAMIMI + DAMIER Johanna VETKA Che Korneuburg Slab Flex Display Valentina Distorted Fashion Gabo Drive
There is something else I thought about the other day while walking to work. For years I prayed and cried for something I wanted God to do. But God in His infinite love and wisdom did not give me what I had asked for! If He did allow it to happen then I would have been absolutely miserable for the rest of my life! And you know what? Five years later while I was talking to Him about it I realized He did it because He loved me, and I thanked Him! Five years later I thanked Him! You know, if a stranger holds a public door for me for 2 seconds then I would thank him whole heartedly and without hesitation, yet I waited five years to thank my Savior and Heavenly Father for freeing me from an absolutely miserable life! This is a perfect example of the idolatry… read more
At the Jesus in the City parade I decided to take a shortcut: instead of going with the parade around the many downtown city blocks, I decided to take a shortcut and meet the floats on the way back. As I walked through the shortcut I got a bit tired and thirsty so I bought a cool drink. It was a sunny and hot afternoon so soon I was thirsty again and the sweat on my forehead started to bother me. As I reached the end of this shortcut street and met up with the floats of the parade I saw this man who was playing the role of our Lord, Jesus Christ: he was barefoot and wearing minimum clothes under the hot sun. Being tired and annoyed by the heat I immediately thought, “Is he crazy? I would never do that!†Then almost immediately I thought, “Thank God Jesus… read more
The Jesus in the City Parade was beautiful; it was beautiful to see so many children of God come together in a public square and have the freedom and right to worship and love their God. But there is something I want to talk about that’s not directly related to this event or this photo. It seems whenever I hear a preacher–whether at church, on radio, or at an event—they all seem to complain about how prayers and scripture reading were taken from public school and how that’s the work of Satan. Well, I disagree with that: first, I don’t think it’s a spiritually bad thing; second, I don’t think it’s the work of Satan—I think it’s the work of God. Here is why I don’t see a problem with that. First, it’s wrong to see Christianity as a state religion. Some preachers say that this country or that country… read more
As I sit here and write this there are tears in my eyes. I’m not not one to cry, it usually only happens a handful of times a year, but the past few days have been crazy. I’m so overwhelmed right now, but not in a bad way. I’m overwhelmed with God’s love for me. I don’t understand how He can love me this much, how He can care so much about the little details in my life. Everything from the basic necessities of life to friendships that touch my inmost being, He has taken care of it all in the most amazing ways. I wanted/needed to find a job (I’m currently a student), there were a few different reasons why but I just knew that it was what I should do. So I prayed that God would provide me with an opportunity, a job where I could be a… read more
In the past year there were many tragic cases of teen suicide, so I decide few months ago to write about my experience with depression and suicidal thoughts. I hope this writing will be of help to someone who needs it. Background As you might know I grew up in Iraq to a Roman Catholic family. In the Middle East depression and suicide are almost taboo because of ignorance. Many people equate depression with mental illness (not that mental illness is something to jeer about), and so the general thought patterns goes something like this, “You can’t marry him because his brother has depression and tried to commit suicide once!†To them depression is like bad genes you really don’t want your children to have. So people often times become depressed but don’t tell anyone and don’t get any treatment because they feel ashamed. And if a family member attempted… read more
INSPIKS Flickr Group: It is time again for another roundup of images from our Flickr group. This group features design and photography from many Christians artist around the world. Select pictures are chosen every other month to be featured in our roundup. As always, remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and our Facebook Fan Page. Enjoy! Thumbnail Image: Peace Coreopsis by Julie Legg [sociallocker] Artist remain the original copyright holder of all their materials. Use of any of their material inconsistent with the terms and conditions set forth by Flickr is considered an infringement of the copyrights of the respective holders unless specially stated otherwise. Please contact the respective owners if you wish to use any of their images. (Click… read more
Designer Juliet Towner, also known as 7ulio, has done an amazing job in her position as Graphic Designer for Victory Highway Wesleyan Church. Juliet communicates the message of her church through beautifully designed Church Marketing pieces for print, web, on-screen and video. The quality of her work speaks volumes about the deeper passion she has for the message of Christ and its impact on the world. Be Inspired! Check out this great interview. Welcome to INSPIKS, please introduce yourself, and tell us where you’re from and how you got started in the field of Design. My name is Juliet Towner and I am the graphic designer for Victory Highway Wesleyan Church in Painted Post, NY. I started working at Victory when I was 15 years old as an administrative assistant. My position evolved over the years, and they brought me on as their full time graphic designer about… read more
Go ahead, smile you are at the end of a long week. You have probably faced at least one individual this week who affected you negatively in some way. Did you get irritated? Did you almost lose your cool? No, that was last week. We do not always have smooth days, yet somehow Friday comes and it is alright. You are going home and you won’t have to worry about a thing concerning work until Monday. Today you may be saying TGIF! (Thank God it’s Friday). A long time ago someone experienced a week none of us would have liked to endure. He was betrayed, like some of us may have felt this week. He was abandoned by His friends, that may have happened this week too. Did you call someone to talk to them and felt as if they had ran out on you? He endured verbal abuse. How… read more
One of the things we have been pounded with is the amount of time necessary to allow mutations to produce modern-day species. The evolutionists are desperately looking for time, because if you can produce enough time, you can hide the many weaknesses of the theory of evolution. But eons of time are an absolute necessity, simply because of the amount of mutations necessary, as we saw in the previous post. There are a number of `clocks` that are used to judge the age of the universe. We will see whether or not these `clocks` are reliable. We will see whether or not the universe is really as old as the theory of evolution postulates. The first is radio-metric dating. Potassium argon or uranium lead is used to determine how old something is. Carbon-14 is radioactive carbon. Carbon normally has 12 electrons, but occasionally a carbon atom has 14… read more
The Bible is not primarily a book of science, but it does contain numerous scientific facts. We laugh at some of the scientific data that was available  just a few hundred years ago. If man alone were the author of the Bible, we would expect to find many such errors contained in it. However, if we examine the scientific data of the Bible and find it to be accurate to present-day scientific laws, then we have powerful evidence for divine inspiration given by God to the authors. The scientific data found in the Bible are not only accurate, but were revealed thousands of years before man discovered them for himself. The Bible does not contain any errors typical of the time in which it was written. Would we expect anything less from a book inspired by God? The scriptures are replete with statements suggesting scientific knowledge which predates the corresponding… read more
I have spent a lot of time thinking mostly about the future. For a long time I have had a plan in my mind about how my future was going to work out. As you who are older and/or wiser than me know, “the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.†This has been a hard experience but it has also been a very healthy one. It was good to step back and take a look at life after the future I thought was so certain, vanished. I realized that God was simply a part of my plan and that ultimately I was still living life for myself. I wanted to live out my life how I had planned it and I essentially told God that He could come along for the ride, because I wanted some of Him in my life. I realized though that it’s… read more
Our driveway is a piece of art. At the top, it’s all concrete, which then switches over to chip’n seal. Next comes a run of very beat up blacktop before finishing off with a final cracked section of concrete. The changes are abrupt and shocking and to ride your smooth bike tires down it can be an adventure at times. Yet, it seemed a fitting subject for the life changes that are taking place with me these days. I just finished up my last day at the farm where I’ve been working for the past three years of my life. I’ve already been offered two new job positions in the past week, yet I am so sad to leave and feel unprepared to step out once again into the unknown. But, God has my steps all laid out, one right after the other, just out of my sight and I… read more
Dan Stevers is a multimedia designer with an effective communication skill and a set of strong beliefs about his place in the world of design and the spreading of the Gospel of Christ. I first came across his work, while searching for inspirational videos on Vimeo and have continued to to be amazed at the quality of his productions. Whatever style Dan uses in his videos, you can bet it will always come out pleasant to the eyes and pulls at the heart strings of your soul. So lets get into another great interview with this talented artist. 1. Welcome to INSPIKS! Please introduce yourself, tell us where you’re from and how you got started in the field of Multimedia. Thanks! My name is Dan Stevers and I’m a church media producer living in San Diego, CA. I got into multimedia at a very young age, making stop-motion movies in… read more
Welcome to this weeks edition of the Christian Blog Carnival. The carnival highlights christian thought in the blogosphere by offering readers a broad range of christian thought, it is open to Christians of Protestant, Orthodox, and Roman Catholic convictions. If you’ve never participated before, it’s a great way to make your writings known amongst the community. Check out all the entries below, you should find something of interest, Enjoy! ‘Tis the Season for Giving Giving Gifts In Secret – Shhh! Have you ever given a gift in secret? What did it feel like? Was it like a secret mission, with all the exhilaration of a well executed plot? If you haven’t before, can you imagine the excitement of doing so?… Author: John Frainee Blog: Christian Personal Finance Read Article Giving Grows Your Net Worth A few weeks ago I spoke at a church luncheon. The topic was “money myths” and… read more
I was raised in what I would call a semi-Christian home. I was never taught about having a personal relationship with Jesus, but I was taught the real significance behind Christian holidays and I was taught many of the same basic principles of the Bible for living my life. When I was 10 years old, we moved to a new city and some neighbors invited us to attend AWANAS. We began to attend church and by the end of my first year of AWANAS I had given my life to Christ. During my school years I had a great group of Christian friends and as a result I never got into alcohol or drugs or anything like that. It was really easy in my group to stay on the straight and narrow, which was really cool, but I never felt like I made a difference for Christ while at… read more
Cameron Smith is a talented Graphic Designer and Photographer from Peoria, Arizona. I came across his work when I joined one of the most influential groups for Christian Designers on Flickr, the Church Marketing Lab. In today’s interview, we talk a little about Cameron’s design background and his reflection on how churches can use design and marketing successfully. Enjoy! 1.Welcome to INSPIKS, please introduce yourself. Please tell us where you’re from and how you got started in the field of Graphic Design? I am Cameron Smith, Visual Ninja and Creative Catalyst. I used to consider myself just a Graphic Designer – but as my work, responsibilities and surroundings have evolved…. I had to come up with something new. I was born and raised in Southern California and recently transplanted my family to Arizona. I’m a self-taught designer, as I suspect many of your readers may be, and I’ve been working… read more
It’s always a blessing for me to put this INSPIKS Flickr Group Showcase together and this time around is no exception. This month we have a beautiful roundup of some amazing images from our Flickr Group. Some of the images will make you laugh, say amen! or simply, make you cry. Thanks to all the talented artist and photographers that continue to share these beautiful images and give glory to God with their talents. We encourage participation from everyone, please feel free to post your images and continue to give inspiration and insight to others. As you view these photos our prayer is that you will be blessed and your heart will be opened to a deeper and closer relationship with God. [sociallocker]  Image Thumbnail: Redeemer by kristen-w Therefore I will praise you among the nations, O LORD; I will sing praises to your name. Psalm 18:49 … read more
Jim LePage is a graphic designer and amateur photographer from St. Paul, MN. Jim uses his talent to pursue after God, he also uses his contemporary, sarcastic and fun filled writing style, when communicating what he learns from the Bible. Read some of the articles on his blog and I guarantee you, he will have you laughing out loud and at the same time saying Amen!. Today we will be talking a little with him about design and the Bible and how he has fused the two together in a personal project called “Word”. Ok, lets hear from Jim! 1. Welcome to INSPIKS, please introduce yourself. Could you tell us where you’re from and how you got started in the field of Graphic Design? I live in St. Paul, MN which has the best weather in the world for 6 months out of the year. I have an amazing… read more
In this article I will be sharing some simple tips to help you create a successful blog. Success is measured in a variety of ways, most times it is measured by how much profit your blog can produce or how many visitors you can get to read and respond to your articles, I will not cover the topic of profit, because you can find many resources that cover that on Google. I will speak about getting more people to read your articles. Getting people to read your articles can be a job in itself, it is important that readers can find your blog and when they find it, be engaged enough to share the article with others. A lot of hard work will have to go into getting great results, but the hard work will pay off in the long run. Lets look at these tips I have learned over… read more
If you use Photoshop extensively, you should be familiar with Channels. Channels are used to masks areas of an image, cut specific areas from an image or apply adjustment or effects to specific areas of an image. Channels are one of the most powerful tools used to achieve simple or complex results in our work. We will use this tutorial to show how to apply two spot channels to a poster design. One spot channel will be used to print a 5th color to the piece, a spot color (pre-mixed ink) and the other will be used to apply a spot UV Coating to the statue on the finished printed work. What is Spot UV Coating? If you want to achieve a glossy coat on a certain image on the page, but don’t need or want the entire page to be coated, then you should use spot UV coating…. read more
David Choate is an extraordinary designer who works as Communication and Design Pastor for Table Rock Fellowship Church. David is one of the best designers working in the Church Marketing industry, he is recognized for his unconventional style, his great use of Typography and clean layouts. In this interview we discuss David’s love for Graphic Design and how it relates to spreading the Gospel of Christ. This exciting interview will help us to learn more about his process, work, and inspiration. so here we go! 1. Welcome to INSPIKS, please introduce yourself. Could you tell us where you’re from and how you got started in the field ? I am from Medford, Oregon. I have a beautiful wife, Samantha, and three great children. I work at Table Rock Fellowship Church. I was originally hired to be the high school pastor, but when my senior pastor decided to introduce more… read more
This post continues our Spectacular Photos of Creation series, we have looked at many photos, and yet, we have seen just a small sample of the majesty of what was created. There are so many animals, birds and fishes, it is beyond our imagination, and to think, some of the animals that were created are already extinct. and we are still discovering unknown species in the rain forest and in the depths of the ocean. As you reflect upon the work of God, take time out to give him thanks and praise! For this is what the LORD says—He who created the heavens, He is God; He who fashioned and made the earth, He founded it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— He says: “I am the LORD, and there is no other. Isaiah 45:18 Cow Lomo by Skinnyde For every beast… read more