By Megan Forgey, Communications Consultant
When it comes to making a church bulletin, you can easily stick with the tried and true bulletin that’s been in the church’s system for years. However, making it unique and even changing it up by theme and season can set you apart. These tools are just as easy, but look a whole lot better! Check out these top tools for making your bulletin or e-bulletin stand out.
Also available as an app, Venite is a bulletin creator and Daily Office prayer app rooted in the Anglican tradition of the Episcopal Church. You can automatically generate bulletins for the Eucharist or Daily Office for any date, and even save your favorite verses and prayers. With a flawless and easy-to-read design, you can even add BCP page numbers for easier worship leadership.
Extra features: listen to the liturgy spoken in a variety of voices, and easy to use formats for morning prayer, noonday prayer, evening, prayer, compline, Rite I, Rite II, and Enriching our Worship.
Put your budding graphic design skills to use with this free tool. Use the Church Newsletter templates to create and customize a beautifully-designed bulletin for your church.
For $59/month (try it for free for 10 days!) the digital Church Bulletin gives you access to unlimited bulletin themes with drag and drop building to shave off time. You can also track who views your bulletin, schedule it to go live at a certain time, embed the bulletin on your church website, and easily attach PDF files.
Concordia has a number of free bulletin templates using Microsoft Word for ultimate easiness. Choose from a traditional or modern design available in a 11” or 14” format. The template includes room for weekly services, upcoming events, and any featured content you wish to share. Concordia also has many more templates available for purchase for special events like Christmas, Easter, as well as themed bulletins.
Ask Around!
Seen a neighboring or other church whose bulletin you love? Many churches are more than happy to share their design and send you a copy of their bulletin for your church’s use. Shoot them an email, it’s a compliment!
Source: caffeinatedchurch.org