What’s in your church bulletin?

Is the church program chock-filled with announcements, calendars and messages that are specific to that week?

If you are in a corporate sized church with 1,000+ attendees every week, are you still printing customized bulletins just like in the “old days” when you had just a few dozen or few hundred people coming to your worship services?

Or have you realized that producing and collating/assembling thousands of bulletins each week is a chore? This is a common reason to moving toward a generic church bulletin.

Now, the bulletin is aimed at new comers visiting your church for the first time. General and timeless information wrapped with graphics that match the current sermon series. You rely on Powerpoint or the visual media during the service to relay the important details of the week so you can just print sermon-series-branded bulletins. You fully believe that people visit your church’s website daily to get the full scoop on everything going on in the church. Does this sound familiar?

So many churches print bulletins just because…well, just because. Is your church one of them?

But you have to remember that anything you hand to your audience, new visitors -AND- regular worshippers, should be intentional and have a purpose.

If people are not devouring the content in the obligatory bulletin like a 8 year old reading Harry Potter, are you printing the right things? Should you be printing at all?

Contemporary churches have re-skinned almost all other parts of “doing church” — but the bulletin oddly remains. Is it time to bring this last artifact into the future?

What’s your vision of a great church bulletin? What’s your wildest dreams for rebuilding it from the ground up? Would you be willing to share details/photos of your church’s bulletins below?

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