So there’s a new website that has come out that is changing the way churches are communicating what’s going on at their church. A lot of churches are looking for ways to lower costs, but still present an excellence in their appearance/branding. Hence the major uprising in online communication with Twitter and Facebook. But it wasn’t until recently that someone thought, “Hey, let’s stop printing bulletins and start putting them online so people can access them anytime”. Now, there is a website devoted to just that: Pixel Ark…Online Church Bulletins.

Usually, bulletins are printed and passed out each week to everyone who walks into a service. Then most of them are left on the floor under the seats with the pens missing. Basically, it’s a lot of money that went to waste because now it has to be recycled or trashed. But now churches have the option of having an online bulletin that can be viewed at anytime without wondering which drawer you’re going to put it in. It can be updated at any time, so you won’t have to worry about whether that event you were supposed to volunteer at was this Saturday or last Saturday.

Pixel Ark was started to change the way old, traditional, ineffective printed bulletins communicate. Instead of printing events every single week, you can create an online calendar and email it whenever you want. In an age where almost EVERYTHING is going digital, paperless, or online; Pixel Ark has created an avenue where bulletins can be viewed on any electronic device that has internet access. Most people who attend, visit, or volunteer at churches spend most of their time on email, Facebook, and twitter so it just makes sense to provide an outlet where they can keep up to date with what’s happening at their church using those media platforms.

This is an amazing tool with tons of features, but the top would be: it’s affordable, easy to use, everywhere, traceable, easy to manage. Every account comes with a customizable page you can direct your members to, so they can sign up and receive your bulletin via email. Everyone that signs up receives a confirmation email letting them know to expect the bulletin, so it gives people comfort too of knowing what to expect.

Now a church can communicate more effectively and save thousands of dollars each year. The only drawback is that if churches don’t hand anything out to people at their services, most people would feel like the church didn’t care to give them any information. So I think this is an amazing tool, but it’s still good to hand out something people could take notes on. My church hands out a bulletin each week that is specific to that week’s message with note outlines…it’s an AMAZING tool to use because people get to interact by taking notes and filling in blanks; and they get to go back and re-study what they learned. My thought on the online church bulletin is that it should be used to communicate events and what’s happening, but there should still be something to hand out to people when they come in.

This is a great idea to help churches become even greater at spreading the gospel. For more information, check out: http://pixelark.com/

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