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We started at a new parish. I am enjoying getting an email of the pew leaflet, usually on Friday morning. Is this common? I am also wondering about reading it on a smart phone during the service, do people do that? Not sure I would.

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At least you won't have to waste paper when you delete it!

Why would reading it online by smartphone be different from reading it on paper, in the pew?

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Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
We started at a new parish. I am enjoying getting an email of the pew leaflet, usually on Friday morning. Is this common? I am also wondering about reading it on a smart phone during the service, do people do that? Not sure I would.

Is a pew leaflet the same as a bulletin? If so, we are e-mailed a pdf of them. You can also get a printed one when you walk in.

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We email ours out in pdf on Thursday afternons and have some hard copies available on Sunday.

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I get enough bum emails as it is.

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Quite so. Ours are given out on Sundays with the hymnbooks, printed on proper paper. If someone really wants it online they can look at our website.

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Advantages of emailed bulletin: you get it even if you're not physically at church.

Advantages of paper ones: you are mote likely to read it, reaches both those folk not on email and visitors to the church.

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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
... Advantages of paper ones: you are mote likely to read it, reaches both those folk not on email and visitors to the church.

And you can stick it on your refrigerator door.

[ 25. November 2014, 12:11: Message edited by: Enoch ]

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We don't do one at all! Saving paper and bandwidth! [Razz]

The notices are announced at the front, posters are at the back and that's it! Some key info goes onto the website and member's meeting minutes go via email / paper.

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[ 25. November 2014, 14:04: Message edited by: Tubbs ]

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no prophet's flag is set so...

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Pew leaflet = bulletin. We use both terms. Is one term more common one place or another?

I was wondering also about the youth angle. Being an old guy, I see young people on their thumb typing gadgets all the time, though not so far in church.

What I like about the emailed version is that even when you miss church, you get some info about it. But as noted, I haven't looked at it during a service, and haven't noticed others doing so, but maybe they are, like so many texting drivers? ?Texting while praying? I wonder.

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Interesting. We put ours on the website, but emailing them out is something that would be worth us thinking about. I read a statistic somewhere* that in a typical Catholic parish, a slim majority of people in your pews on a weekend weren't there last week. If those people would sign up for an email, we could at least keep them better updated.

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I've been producing the Cathedral's bulletin for the last 11 years and I e-mail it to those who ask for it (on Thursday afternoons), but by far the larger proportion is the printed version, which is handed out by the ushers along with the prayer-books and hymn-books.

A lady in the congregation has a list of house-bound parishioners to whom she sends paper copies by post.

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quote:
Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
Pew leaflet = bulletin. We use both terms. Is one term more common one place or another?

I was wondering also about the youth angle. Being an old guy, I see young people on their thumb typing gadgets all the time, though not so far in church.

What I like about the emailed version is that even when you miss church, you get some info about it. But as noted, I haven't looked at it during a service, and haven't noticed others doing so, but maybe they are, like so many texting drivers? ?Texting while praying? I wonder.

Our church has a well-established email list, which most members are on (even some really elderly people - who are often the most email aware after all!). We don't send the bulletins out by email, but it is an idea I quite like. We have the infrastructure already - all it requires is for the administrator to kick things off when she has sent the bulletin to the printers.

I'm going to have a think about that - we might well start to experiment along these lines.

If you DO have the bulletin before Sunday (although that seems a little strange, for some reason), I don't see any reason why you can't have it on your phone or tablet, and not use the paper version. Although, you might get weird looks at first from people who think you're surfing the net instead of worshiping.

I am very used to churches which place their bulletins on the website afterwards. It's a good idea - so often people are away from church for a while and they can keep up with what is happening.

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Originally posted by venbede:
I get enough bum emails as it is.

So if you don't want it, just trash it. It's not costing you anything. If it bothers you that badly, set up a filter on your email program so that such emails go straight to trash.

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I suspect that very few British churches routinely send out notices to everyone by email.

Perhaps the youthful churches of London and the South East do this, but in other parts of the country the average churchgoer is a lot older, and IME the clergy aren't keen on using technology in a way that will divide churchgoers. In any case, congregations here are smaller so it's easy to contact the relevant people by phone, etc., if there's a change to planned events.

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We send out the announcement part of the bulletin on Thursdays, but we have the full bulletin (order of service and announcements) available in paper form to hand out at services. The monthly newsletter is sent mostly by email; a few are mailed to those without internet, and we have some printed ones available in the narthex for people to take.

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Our bulletin is posted to a Facebook group every Thursday.
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We don't have pew leaflets.

Notices are given out before the Offertory and hard copy if posted on the noticeboards.

Event advertising is also in the monthly parish magazine, together with readings for services, etc.

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We have a weekly newsheet but it, together with the week's sermon from the parish church, is put onto our website. (Our vicar is a computer geek!)

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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
A lady in the congregation has a list of house-bound parishioners to whom she sends paper copies by post.

By what? [Paranoid]

(e-mail only here, but it does miss the unconnected. Our website has been "coming soon" for about 5 years now)

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You kind of answered your own question, Eutychus - the lady in question is of an age* to be Not Connected, and so, I assume are the people on her list.

* Officially, no-one knows what age she is (not even her husband) as she's paranoiacally secretive about it.

However, someone in the choir found her in an on-line census ... [Devil]

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