Cecil Coffey

Public Relations, North Pacific Union

Articles by Cecil Coffey

Visual Aids at S.M.C.

November 1948

Perhaps the most practical mechanical subject taught ministerial students at South­ern Missionary College is the course in visual aids. Visual aids—projected and nonprojected —are essential and profitable in public evange­lism as proved by…

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Public Relations Evangelism in Canada

April 1955

The Canadian National Exhibition is the biggest annual show in Canada. Like a World's Fair, it has permanent buildings for all sorts of displays, grandstand attractions, and a "great white way" of amusements. And it draws millions of people…

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Good Listening is Enlightening

December 1971

CAREFULLY cultivating the practice of good listening—really paying attention to what is being said, no matter who is saying it—is one of the best shortcuts for a church leader who seeks to accumulate current information that is pertinent.…

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Write Simply

October 1971

IT IS not easy to write simply; in fact, it is more difficult to be simple in communicating than to be complex. But the most effective writing is simple writing. Witness the success of Reader's Digest, a good example of simple writing.

Simple…

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The Written Communication

May 1971

WHEN ministers are required to write something that will convey information from them to others they must immediately grope with the problem of communicating. So many times a letter, a memo, or a report fails to reach the intended recipient,…

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