How To Write A Newsletter For Your Church, Synagogue or Mosque
One thing is for sure, there’s no better way to bring your faith community together than to write a newsletter to tell the whole congregation what’s going on.
So learning how to write a newsletter for your church, synagogue, mosque or any other faith based group can be an enormously rewarding activity.
Based on my twenty years of newsletter writing experience, I’ve pulled together some of my top tips:
Include a “who’s who” of your community
Obviously you might start with your church leader (rabbi, etc) but you should then widen out your “who’s who” section to include other leading members of the community. This section will work to keep everyone informed about the various roles people take on. I also tend to find that the individuals who you are profiling enjoy it because the congregation then has a better idea who to contact. Your newsletter can remind people about these various positions periodically or in every edition.
Welcome ‘New Members’ in your church newsletter
Everyone likes to feel welcome and you can ensure that your community knows about the various comings and goings by including these details in your church newsletter.
So a “New Members” section, which might also combine those who are leaving your community too, will always go down well in your newsletter.
Fundraising and event update
Most faith communities need to raise money in order to pay for the upkeep of their building and ensure activities continue to run smoothly. One of the things that your church newsletter can be excellent for is to assist in the process of fundraising.
So use your newsletter to write about upcoming events and provide feedback and reports on those which have taken place. Everyone will enjoy being kept up to date and you will enjoy larger participation by your community too.
Get your congregation writing newsletter articles
Once your newsletter is up and running it will be a lot easier to maintain and a lot more interesting to read if more members of the community are involved.
So actively seek contributions from the membership by way of articles, special newsletter features and guest columns.
This will keep your readers involved and will help your community grow.
If you’d like more ideas about How To Write A Newsletter For Your Church, Synagogue or Mosque then check out my newsletter toolkit at http://www.howtoWRITEaNEWSLETTER.com
Inside I’ve packed my years of experience in producing newsletters for faith groups like yours and have included my favorite newsletter templates, copyright free articles to get you started and my personal “How To” manual which will show you everything you need to know about How To Write A Newsletter for your church or faith group. Find it all here.
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Your Newsletter Toolkit. Michael, I picked up a copy of your How To Write A Newsletter Toolkit when I was put in charge of producing our Synagogue newsletter called Shalom.
Just wanted to mention that I found it to be an enormous help. The first thing I did was read the Newsletter 'How To' Manual that comes with the toolkit and this got me up to speed very fast.
Next I selected one of the Templates. Plugged my content into that and used a bit of filler material from your excellent Copyright Free Article Directory (I went for the Platinum version for this purpose).
Anyway, all really good and just wanted to write to say thanks and to let others know how useful this was for me.
Michael Issacs
Shalom Newsletter
Writing a church newsletter with the How To Write A Newsletter Toolkit
With a little trepidation I picked up a copy of the How To Write A Newsletter Toolkit mentioned in this article. But I'm very pleased that I did.
The entire Newsletter Toolkit is well set out and easy to follow. I was impressed by the common sense advice in the 'How To' Newsletter manual and the various tools that come with this package.
In particular when I had a query I simply emailed the maker of the How To Write A Newsletter Toolkit and received a quick response.
All in all the templates and articles made creating our church newsletter much easier.
10 out of 10.
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