Print for Small Congregations
Small churches are where people know each other’s names.
I’ve stood at the welcome table and watched a greeter catch a visitor’s name, only to lose it in the next handshake. I’ve been pastoring for twenty years, and I print the sorts of things that help you get it back.
What we print
Giving Envelopes
Offering envelopes for the people in your church who still give by check or cash, on paper that takes a pen cleanly. Short flap or long, printed on the front or on both sides.
Connection Cards
The card a first-time guest fills out on Sunday and drops in the offering. It is uncoated, so a ballpoint writes on it the first time, and it fits a seat-back pocket or a rack.
Invite Cards
A small square card someone in your church hands to a neighbor at Christmas, Easter or the start of a new series. The square shape keeps it from disappearing into a wallet.
Giving envelopes
A giving envelope is a message about giving. The envelope part is just paper.
I’ve held church envelopes that read like a form. Amount. Fund. Name. I could tell nobody thought about the person holding it.
I was that person, sitting in a pew with an envelope in my hand during the offering, deciding whether and how much to give. In that minute, the words on the paper are an invitation or a bill.
We print them on uncoated stock that takes a pen on the first try. Short flap or long, one side or both. What you put on it is what matters.
How ordering works
Send us your file
1. You upload it. Pick the run on the product page and upload your file. The check reads the size, the bleed and the resolution before it goes in the cart.
2. I send it to press. The next business day. If something in it is wrong, reply to your confirmation email before then and I’ll hold it.
3. It prints and ships. Four business days on press, then shipping by the service you chose. I email you the day it ships.
Start to finish: six to ten business days by ground.
We design your card
1. You tell me what it says. Choose Design and print, and give me the words and any photo or logo on the product page.
2. I send you a proof. In two to three days, or within a business day for a straight reprint. Two rounds of changes are included, and each one comes back within a business day.
3. You approve it, and it prints. Nothing goes to press until you tell me the proof is right. It goes the next business day, prints in four, and ships.
Start to finish: two to three weeks by ground, depending on how soon you answer the proof.
We design your display
1. You tell me where it’s going. Give me the words, where it will stand, and a photo and a logo if you have them. A vector logo prints sharpest.
2. I send you a proof. In two to three days, with two rounds of changes, the same as a card.
3. You approve it, and it prints. Around four business days on press, and any stand, case, pole or frame you ordered ships with it. A reprint comes with new hardware too.
Start to finish: two to three weeks by ground.
Prices on the product page are for the whole run, or the whole display. Shipping is added at checkout, and sales tax where it applies, unless your church’s exemption certificate is on file.
The card you hand a visitor is the only one you ask them to hand back.
I remember handing a visitor a card and watching them try to write on it. It’s a lot to ask of a piece of paper. It should take a ballpoint on the first try and fit the pocket it ends up in.
Ours are uncoated 14pt at 3.5 by 8.5. Glossy stock looks nice, but I’ve never seen someone write on it easily. A smaller card gets lost in a bag.
They start at 250, and the ones that come back on Sunday are the reason anybody has something to do on Monday.