Church Newsletters – How to Email Newsletters Easily
Church Newsletters are great for keeping your people informed and entertained. Always include an interesting short story about your area, people or something funny that happened. Using email to deliver it is even easier and more effective for most churches.
What to write in Church Newsletters
You need to keep people reading your church bulletins so keep it fun and informative. Don’t be too serious all the time. You can find free church email newsletter templates online if you do a little searching.
Don’t feel alone, a lot of people search every month for how to write a newsletter email for a church group. It’s rare but there is church email newsletter software. You can go to canva and use a report template to make a great looking bulletin or newsletter.
What can a church use to send newsletter via email?
You don’t want to send them all by hand. Use an online tool like an autoresponder like Aweber or GetResponse. They know how to get your email delivered. It isn’t too expensive.
All you have to do is join one and add a new list, new signup form and write a welcome email. There are great videos online that show you what to do. It will cost you a $200 a year most start about $20 a month and go up based on the size of your list. It can get expensive if you have 2000 or more in your church.
A Church Email Newsletter Free Alternative
You can make a free email newsletter on Substack.com, they don’t charge you anything to have a large newsletter. They only take a small fee if you have a paid newsletter. It is confusing to setup but I have some videos that show you how to get it done.
==>Click here to learn how to setup a Free Newsletter on Substack<==
It will save you $100’s if not $1,000’s over the years. You can’t beat FREE!
I bring this topic up because I often get questions like:
“I send a church newsletter to 400 emails a day, what email program should I use?”
Substack is perfect for that.
Or:
“What can a church use to send newsletter via email?”
Use the free Substack to send your emails, they archive all your past issues so people can read them again.
How To Email A Church Newsletter
It is pretty easy once you setup a paid autoresponder tool like Aweber or GetResponse. But the costs do add up fast.
Write your newsletter first.
Aim for 4 or 5 pages max.
Choose 1 Call to Action(what you want them to do next) People like to have a next step.
Choose 1 Main topic and write a 1 or 2 page interesting article.
Add a 1 paragraph introduction with a tidbit of church business.
In your main topic, share a story with a takeaway or two.
Mix in some short paragraphs of what’s happening at church, who did what recently, upcoming special events and even who’s having a birthday. News is basically what people want to stay interested.
You than have a closing paragraph or two that lead them to do something. Or give them a link to a funny or informative video on Youtube. Any special request you would like them to do.
That’s plenty to put in any church bulletin or newsletter. You will write better email newsletters with experience.
People just want to stay involved
For good church newsletter templates, you can search online or on Amazon.com for a book.
It’s good today to include your social media links so people know how to get in touch easily. Post the link to your newsletter on your church Facebook page. Post the newsletter on your website too.
Make sure to checkout Substack.com for a free email newsletter, it is sitting there available for you to use.
And if you find it intimidating to use, check out my Substack Newsletter How-To videos here.
