I was meeting with one of the pastors today and he asked me if I’ve thought about changing up the bulletin. We’ve been using our latest design and size for about a year now. Previously we were purchasing shells from Outreach, then printing and folding in-house. However, with some new equipment, we’ve switched to 12-page 8.5″x5.5″ booklets with a color front and back. Using our Lanier printers and bookmaker the cost for the 2,500 bulletins we make ends up being about $0.15 each. Here’s a PDF version for you to check it out.
So what are you doing? I’m curious about what other churches are doing for bulletins. I’ve seen a church that had a “Bullet” that was about 3.5″x8.5″ and had basic points of what’s happening and then referred people to more info elsewhere (a info booth or Web site).
I consider the weekly bulletin as one of the prime ways we communicate with people although we’re trying to drive more people to the Web site. It just seems that it’s an inexpensive way to get info into their hands and people know where to find bulletins…plus, they usually read or at least peruse them while they’re waiting for service to start or when they take them home.
So, any ideas?
Thoughts by Michael Shead
It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem inside the first place.
We ended up switching over to a smaller “bullet” to hand out and developing an ebulletin. Read about our transition here.