Effective Church Bulletin Designs We LOVE!
Your parish bulletin is more than just a collection of event announcements. It is a powerful means of engagement. Your bulletin provides a weekly, foundational opportunity for your church to communicate your mission, beliefs, and the spirit of the day-to-day life and ministry happening in your community within a convenient, take-home mechanism that studies show parishioners still greatly value!
In fact, according to this 2023 research study on Catholic Media Use by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate from Georgetown University, the best way, by far, to reach Catholics, both in the pews and outside of them, is still through the parish bulletin. This study found that:
- 90% of weekly Mass attendees read their parish bulletin — most often in print (46%).
- 61% of respondents had read their parish bulletin in the three months prior to being interviewed.
- 40% of those who attend Mass only a few times a year, or less often, read the bulletin — both in print and online.
This week we hand-picked some of the most effective bulletins that we print for parishes across the country to share with you. We hope you find some inspiration, new ideas, and enjoy them as much as we do. Remember, if you are one of our partner parishes and we already print your bulletin, you can receive a free re-design of your bulletin with our in-house designers as part of your contract! No need to go it alone if you don’t want! Take advantage of the perks of printing with LPi and create an updated, intentional, and effective bulletin design that best represents and communicates with YOUR unique community!
Our Lady of Lourdes, Pittsburg, Kansas
This bulletin’s design is so professional looking! The cover is easy to navigate, the colors are inviting yet eye-popping, and it includes all the most pertinent information a visitor might need without feeling like the design is overcrowded.
The QR code on the front leads directly to the portion of the parish website that explains online giving and there are multiple options on how to stay up to date right there on the cover.
We simply love the logo and overall parish branding and how it, as well as the beautiful cover image, are incorporated into the design. The whole package makes the reader want to turn the page to see more. If you want to turn the page to view the rest of this bulletin or see more weekly bulletins, visit the Our Lady of Lourdes Parishes Online profile to view more! They might give you some great ideas on how to incorporate different colors into the cover design every week to match with the cover image while still staying within their branding guides.
Great work Our Lady of Lourdes!
St. Vincent de Paul, Rogers, Arkansas
Like many parishes today, St. Vincent de Paul in Rogers, Arkansas, serves a multi-lingual community. To best communicate with their members in both English and Spanish, they have opted to use both languages in their bulletin design.
This bulletin tackles the challenge of using two languages seamlessly throughout the bulletin very well. We only show two example pages here but, to see how they display their events and more with two languages, check out the inside of this edition of their bulletin by flipping through the pages digitally in their Parishes Online profile.
The cover of this bulletin focuses primarily on one image that conveys the focus of the community that week. They then use the inside pages to welcome newcomers and guide readers through the week’s readings, Mass schedule, events, and more.
The pages never feel crowded even though almost 100% of the content inside is printed in both English and Spanish and the parish’s use of QR codes maximizes the space they do have by sending readers directly to their website to expand upon the content.
Great work St. Vincent de Paul!
¡Gran trabajo San Vicente de Paúl!
St. Patrick’s, Elkhorn, Nebraska
We love how St. Patrick’s uses our LPi bulletin cover art so boldly! The cover image featured here is part of our bulletin cover series called the Vibrant Series, found weekly inside WeCreate.
Every week in WeCreate, we provide our partner parishes with several different bulletin cover image options. Customers can also find cover images designed specifically for feast days and other liturgical celebrations inside WeCreate to help make their own parish bulletins as beautiful as St. Patrick’s!
St. Patrick’s keen eye for design doesn’t stop there, though. Inside every page of their bulletin, the reader will find professionally-designed pages created to help effectively communicate a great deal of information in a way that doesn’t overwhelm the viewer. Their use of imagery, color, and columns, creates the space needed to be able to digest the text without getting lost on the page. In fact, inside their bulletin, readers will find lots of supporting imagery to give the eye a rest from reading so much copy as well as a predictable format so that readers can find exactly what they are looking for right away.
Lastly, we love how they use their branding to make the whole bulletin feel like one complete design. They stick with the gold and green colors of their beautiful logo throughout, creating a concise and compelling design.
Curious about a updating your bulletin design for you own church? Check out some of the before-and-after images of bulletins we’ve redesigned for some more inspiration.
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