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Date Submitted: 03/01/2015 04:22 PM
Church magazine editors are special people. They produce so much
with so little - for so many – for so long!
Church ministers often have years of training, stacks of books, and lots
of other resources to help them preach to the people in their church on
Sunday.
Church magazine editors rarely have the same advantages – and yet
their Christian witness reaches dozens, if not hundreds more people
each month than the minister does.
Church magazine editors help the people in their church to stay in touch
with each other, but they can do even more. They can help their church
to stay in touch with its community. A church magazine can bravely go
through letterboxes into homes where no minister has gone before!
In fact, your church magazine may be the only Christian contact that
many people in your community will ever have.
What an opportunity! Here’s how you can make the most of it.
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Where to begin?
If you are thinking about improving your church magazine, a good place
to begin is to take a good look at what you have at present. This
involves a simple audit that will help you decide :-
Who are your present readers?
Are they just the members of your church?
Or do they include members of the wider local community?
Who would you like them to be?
Does your current magazine give them what they need?
The majority of the editorial decisions you make about your magazine
will depend on your answers to these questions.
Why not ask your minister and your church leaders to think again about
WHO they want their church magazine to reach? And WHY?
Audit your present magazine
What have you got in your current
magazine? Take a good look by going
through the last four issues. List all the
different sorts of items you find.
How many of the articles are of interest to
just church people? How much space is
wasted by ‘inside’ information which only
affects some church people? How many
items might interest your community as
well?...