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Updated Senior Newsletter and why you should have a newsletter for the Seniors Ministry in your church

8 June, 2017 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Another version of a Senior's Newsletter for churches, plus why it is so important to create these.

In another article I shared a Senior Ministry Newsletter and here is an updated version of it. But even more important than the additional design  are the reasons given below as to why creating a newsletter for Seniors is incredibly important for your church.

Reasons why you should have a newsletter for the Senior Ministry in your church

  • Not only is it the right thing to do and a Biblical command to care for the older members of our church, but it is also a fact that in most churches the older members are the primary ones who support the church financially.
  • However, they are less likely to give generously if they don’t feel they are a significant part of the church. A newsletter like this that not only is useful to create a community for seniors, but it informs them about ministries in the church and invites them to become involved.
  • You need to print this out because overall, most seniors, even if they have a computer, prefer to read material like newsletters (and bulletins and information from the church) in a print format.
  • Just because you print this doesn’t mean you ignore technology. You can also create a PDF version of this publication to post online. This particular layout works well online because in PDF format you don’t have to scroll up and down as you do in a multi-column newsletter layout.
  • This simple layout can be adapted to create newsletters for any ministry in the church— Women’s, Men’s, Children’s, Missions. They are also projects that ministry members can do themselves. Challenge your church ministry leaders to increase their communications and THEY WILL see an increase in involvement. People do not give to, volunteer, or pray for ministries that they know little or nothing about.

Below are images of the two pages of the revised design and following is the link to download the MS Publisher Template file.

To download the ZIP file that has the MS Publisher file for this newsletter, click the following link: Senior Newsletter Revised Design

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Easy, 2-Page Senior Newsletter Template in MS Publisher

8 June, 2017 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

This newsletter in a MS Publisher template for a newsletter for Seniors.
This newsletter in a MS Publisher template for a newsletter for Seniors.

In expanding our TEMPLATE section, I found this very useful template for a 2-page Senior Newsletter in our archives. Below is the template, plus a short video on how I put it together. The video is several years old and uses an older version of MS Publisher. I opened the template in MS Publisher 2016 and saved it in that version and that worked great.

Many senior adults in churches still prefer print and creating a newsletter for them is not difficult to do. Many seniors today are fit and active and can contribute a lot to the church if they know what is going on. A print newsletter can greatly help.

This newsletter template has typeface size, line-spacing, line length and boxed materials all optimized for seniors. Though the layout here is designed for seniors, it could work well for many other types of newsletters. When designing publications for seniors, a few small changes can make it much more readable and is very easy to do, as the video shows.

Following are the two pages of the Template, then a video that shows how and why it was created and below them the link to download the Template.

The video below shows an older version of MS Publisher, but the basic tasks are the same.

To download the Template for a Newsletter for Seniors, click the following link: MS Pub Template for Senior Newsletter

For a revised and updated version of this template: CLICK HERE

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Why and how to create a newsletter for Seniors

16 July, 2013 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Senior communication
Seniors are a vital part of your church--give them communications that challenge them!

Answering the questions you are asking is one of my primary purposes in creating the content for this website and the article here and the video linked to it were prompted both by the question below that deals strictly with newsletters for seniors and several questions I've had lately about typography.

The Question:

What is the best way to send at least a monthly newsletter out to an older congregation when some don't think it is worth the expense, and others complain that we are not communicating with all our members, but only those that show up in a given week? Not everyone uses email, or texts because of the age of the congregation.

There are really several questions intertwined here, which is what makes it difficult to answer. The first part is somewhat simple and straight forward. The second part is a little more challenging.

Let me reword each part slightly to be able to handle them clearly.

Part # 1 of the question:  What is the best way to send out a monthly newsletter to an older congregation when not all of them use email or text?

This part is easy to answer, though it can be challenging to carry out, because there is no one best way. We live in a time of both/and, not either/or in all of our communications. Though it would make our church communication lives so much easier if we could create communications for any one group, one way, it doesn't work that way anymore.

To communicate effectively to an older congregation with a newsletter (which is an excellent communication tool) the best way to do it is to do one version in print and then another online. Again, that is probably not what most people want to hear, because it seems like extra work, but if you do it in the way suggested below it doesn't need to be difficult. Here are some tips on that: [Read more...]

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Template for Senior Newsletter

16 July, 2013 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

This newsletter in a MS Publisher template for a newsletter for Seniors.
This newsletter in a MS Publisher template for a newsletter for Seniors.

When designing publications for seniors, a few small changes can make it much more readable.

This newsletter template has typeface size, line-spacing, line length and boxed materials all optimized for seniors. Though the layout here is designed for seniors, it could work well for many other types of newsletters.

It it available as an MS Publisher template for Effective Church Communication Members. You must have MS Publisher to open and use it.

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CLICK HERE to download it.

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