Graphic Design Foundations for Ministry Leaders

Foundations of Graphic Design for Ministry Leaders

Course
15 Lessons

How will this help me?

Are you doing graphic design work for your church but feel like you could use some more training?

Does graphic design work always seem to take longer and longer each week?

Is graphic design taking time from the ministry God has called you to serve?

This course will help you design faster (and better) so you can get back to investing in the ministry God has called you to.

I spent 4 years learning graphic design in college and have served the church in creative ministry for over 16 years. I've been the graphic designer, hired and trained graphic designers, led creative teams, and taught ministry leaders how to design faster.

I've seen which design skills are helpful, and which ones aren't.

Are you ready to be equipped with the skills and tools you need to focus less on graphics and more on your ministry?

Exactly what I needed

I am the Senior Pastor of a medium sized church and it feels like most of my week is taken up by doing social media posts, graphics for my sermon, and design work that I never learned how to do. This course is exactly what I needed to help me clarify my brand, helped me learn some time saving tricks, and moved us away from designs that we thought looked cool to helping us communicate on purpose. From color theory and font choices to thinking through the audience I am communicating to, it was the perfect amount of information without making me feel like I was a lost cause. I would easily pay twice what I did in order to learn what I did all over again. A huge thanks to Lunchtime Heroes!

Peter Anderson, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Hanford

This course is helpful for...

Executive Pastors

If someone on your staff is expected to design without training, they probably feel intimidated by it. This course is the development tool you need to take your staff from feeling like they don't know what they are doing to equipped and invested in.

Ministry Leaders

If you are trying to balance message prep, event planning, and designing tonight's social media post, this course will help. Understanding the foundational pillars of design will help you design faster (and better) so you can invest in the ministry you were called to.

Communications Leaders

If you are serving the church in the area of Communications but haven't had much design training, this course will give you the foundation you need. Not only will it help you communicate effectively with the designers you work with, but it will help you design when needed, too.

Administrative Assistants

More and more the role of Administrative Assistant includes graphic design. If you find yourself needing to "design a quick social post" or "throw together an event flier" for the ministries you serve, this course will give you the design foundation you need to create quality designs, fast.

What about the extras?

On top of the course itself, I'm including 3 bonus resources.

Make Good Design Decisions, FAST! Cheat Sheet
All the tips, questions, and tricks from this course consolidated into one printable document. Starting a new project? Grab your cheat sheet and start smart!

The Mission Minded Critique Checklist
While a "true" critique happens with a group, these questions will help you evaluate the work you produce on your own. Effective critique helps you make changes before you print (or post) AND learn for the future.

10 Amazing (and FREE!) Tools for Faster Design Decisions
If you need a font, photo, or color combination for your next project, these 10 tools will help you get done faster.

What's in the course?

This course includes 1 hour and 34 minutes of content across 12 different videos.

You'll be introduced to the tools of the trade (basic, mid-tier, and professional)
You'll learn the Four Pillars of Graphic Design that I've seen make a HUGE difference in saving ministry leaders time
We'll dive into Ministry Specific Tricks that will help you handle page layout, flier design, series graphics, bulletins, and social media.
You'll get 3 foolproof ways to continue growing as a graphic designer

Bonus Downloads

Make Good Design Decisions Fast Cheat Sheet.pdf

129 KB

The Mission Minded Critique Checklist.pdf

18.4 KB

10 Amazing (and FREE) Tools for Faster Design Decisions.pdf

29 KB

Introduction

4 mins
389 MB

Let's Talk About Design Tools

8 mins
555 MB

The Four Pillars of Graphic Design

Identifying Your Audience | Design Pillar 1

5 mins
562 MB

Using Color Well | Design Pillar 2

10 mins
643 MB

Using Fonts Well | Design Pillar 3

8 mins
517 MB

Establishing a Visual Hierarchy | Design Pillar 4

10 mins
586 MB

Ministry Specific Tricks

Page Layout Tricks

11 mins
724 MB

Designing a Flier, Fast

10 mins
611 MB

Creating Rich Series Graphics

10 mins
645 MB

Making the Bulletin Engaging

6 mins
577 MB

Thriving on Social Media

6 mins
510 MB

Where Do I Go From Here?

How Do I Keep Growing?

6 mins
597 MB

Why not take a design class?

Because you don't NEED a design class!

The four pillars of design that I'm sharing with you in this course came out of FOUR college classes that I took while getting my degree. On top of that, NONE of my classes prepared me to work in ministry - even though I went to a Christian university!

The knowledge I'm sharing with you in this class is FOUR years of formal design training filtered through 16 years of ministry practice so you learn only what you NEED to learn.

This course gives you ministry specific training that you can't get from a community college class, in less time than a class would offer it.

Design classes run anywhere between 7 weeks and 14 weeks AND usually meet for 3 hours each week. That's a LOT of time!

Would you rather spend as much as 168 hours in a graphic design class at a community college, or spent 1 hour and 34 minutes getting ministry focused teaching?

Meet Matt Curtis

Owner of Lunchtime Heroes

Having spent over 20 years in creative ministry, I’ve served in a variety of roles ranging from graphic designer to Creative Minister. In that time, I’ve seen toxicity spread through organizations when not addressed, led unhealthy teams back to health, and recognized that creative teams can only be effective if they are healthy.

I started Lunchtime Heroes in 2022 to help churches build healthy creative teams and have had the pleasure of working with churches, individual creatives, and non-profit organizations across the country.

Outside of building healthy church creative teams, I enjoy making music under the name Comfy Socks, BBQ, coffee roasting (and consumption), and gaming with friends.

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