Comments on: But Times are Hard

By: Peter Rust

Peter Rust — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:18:42 +0000

Thanks for this, Kyle. Those of us pushing for professionalism and excellence need a reminder sometimes to keep our priorities straight — to be professional and excellent WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF wise, self-controlled spending.

What’s even harder (for me) is to take the principle and apply it to my on-the-clock ministry hours.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:05:01 +0000

Good work Ronni! I think the DIY spirit can go a long way when it comes to creating church materials. Besides, like I said in the post, it’s a huge stretch on your creativity and problem solving skills.

By: Ronni

Ronni — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:51:37 +0000

Wow, seriously last night the rubber hit the road on this. I was designing full bleed double sided bookmarks for our ladies ministry and figured out the cost for them to be printed, laminated and cut… since it was coming out of my pocket and I need groceries this week… suddenly my scrapbooking days came out and text was printed on high gloss on my personal printer and photos on photo paper and I brought out the ink and adhesives… cost me barely anything comparatively. Granted I didn’t impress anyone with my photoshop skills this time but that’s not the point right?

Now today I get to redo the bulletin boards… break out the scissors!!!

By: Corey Jamison

Corey Jamison — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:39:14 +0000

I have been thinking a lot about this lately too. Mailing is so darn expensive now, but that is the main form of communication for churches. Stats show that the majority of people come to church because they were invited by someone, so why not empower the members. Design marketing around them, and use them to communicate. I know this can be done in a new way, just need a church to really want to do it, and communicate that to the members. It will save you money, but will be a little bit more work.