So we are at work on our new pictorial directory.
If you have not yet done so, you should click on the link and sign up for your pictures.
And this funny post I read this morning comes at the perfect time…
Improving your church directory –
I don’t know how you folks at large churches keep track of each other, but we here at small churches like to use the church directory. The church directory is used more often than the phone book at our house. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I used the actual yellow pages, which are still dropped near our mailbox a few times a year. I try to make sure they stay stacked neatly next to the mailbox, but the raccoons like to knock them over.
I have noticed changes of the church directory throughout the years. It started out with just names, addresses, and phone numbers. The next one added email addresses. The current one was a big deal because it added photographs of each family. And they were in color!
But we haven’t updated our church directory in a few years. Those photos are due to be updated because it’s getting hard to recognize some of the kids. And there are some new families who aren’t in the directory. Before anyone starts updating the church directory, you need to consider how you could improve it. Every church directory has to be better than the one before. You can’t just add the new people to the same old directory format.
I don’t know if my church will actually use these, but here are some new features to improve the next church directory:
1. Back-of-the-head photos
The pictorial directory is nice, but it really helps just the pastor since he’s the only one who sees people’s faces during church. Everyone else sees the backs of heads. So the new church directory should have pictures of the fronts and backs of heads.
Read the whole thing at
http://www.jonacuff.com/stuffchristianslike/2011/04/improving-your-church-directory/