The weekly bulletin, made for you, on your site and on paper

Bulletin in the menu opens the coming weekend's bulletin, already drafted. It takes the order of service from the published plan (your songs with their writers, the sermon), this week's message, the sermon notes from Present's slides, last week's sermon with the recap you approved, the announcements running on the screens that Sunday, the public events of the next eight days, and Kids, Give, I'm new and your contact details from your site. You look it over, switch parts off, change words, and press Publish. Nothing is on your site until you do.

The Sundays

Across the top, the next four Sundays as chips, and Past for the ones published before. Each chip's dot says where it stands: Draft, ready to look over; Waiting for the plan (no published plan yet, so the order of service waits while the rest is drafted); Published, with the moment; or Changed since you published. A Saturday-evening service joins the Sunday after it, and a church whose main day isn't Sunday gets its bulletins on that day.

The parts

Each part is a card with a switch (Show), a tag saying where it came from (From the plan, From the calendar, From last week's sermon, From the screens' announcements, From your site, From Present's slides, From the schedule, From your brand kit, Your words), and its heading and words to change in place. Your changes save by themselves a second after you stop typing: the page says Saved. Hide a song, an announcement or an event with its eye button; drag a card by its grip, or use Move up and Move down in its menu. Add a part adds your own words, or an announcement for this bulletin alone, or, if you run the slides, for the screens too. A part with nothing in it says why and stays off the site.

The order of service follows your church's sections, the same ones Present uses (Worship, Message, Response, or your own names): songs before the sermon go under Worship, songs after it under Response. Two different plans on one morning show each under their time.

Where each part shows. Each card's menu has Where it shows: Online and on paper, Paper only, or Online only. Three parts start on paper only: the Prayer list (your own words; name someone only with their yes; it is never sent to AI or read by your site's chat), Wi-Fi (from your brand kit in Present), and Serving this week (the people who said yes, by team and position, as the schedule shows them; off to start). Sermon notes come from the sermon's slides with points one at a time: each word in brackets is drawn as a line to write on, and the word itself is never printed or shown. With no such slides, paper gets a lined Notes page and the site shows nothing there. When the slides have a Follow along link, its QR prints beside the notes.

Print

Print opens a sheet with two sizes: Letter pages, or a Folded booklet (half-letter pages, four to a sheet; print both sides, flip on the short edge, then fold the stack in half; eight pages when it runs longer). The PDF holds every part that shows on paper, as the bulletin stands now, in your brand kit's fonts and colour, with QR codes for Give, I'm new, Kids, each event's sign-up, the bulletin's own page and Follow along, each with its short address under it. Press Make the PDF and it opens in a new tab. Once some Spanish is written, the sheet offers a Spanish copy too.

In Spanish

Under the three dots beside Print, Write the Spanish for me lists your own words in this bulletin, each beside a box for its Spanish. Write the Spanish for me drafts them with AI, from your church's AI allowance; you read and change any line, then Keep the Spanish. Song titles, names and Scripture references stay as written, and the prayer list, who is serving and the Wi-Fi are never sent. The kept Spanish goes on your site for Spanish readers the next time you publish, and prints from Print. The standing words' Spanish in Your usual bulletin is used where you wrote nothing else.

Publish

Publish opens a short sheet saying what goes on your site. It names any announcement that was only on your screens until now, each with Leave it out, and any plan line written for the team. Then it's live: the button reads Published · Update, with Open on your site and Unpublish in its menu. If the plan, the calendar or last week's recap changes after that, the page says what changed, like "The plan: 1 song changed.", with Update, which publishes again.

Beside Print, the three dots also hold Copy for your email (the week's highlights and the bulletin's link, as text and as a short formatted email, for your church's own email) and Share the link (your phone's share sheet, or the link copied).

On your site

Home's Join us card ends with "Sunday's bulletin", and the Calendar has This week's bulletin beside Subscribe. The page shows the date and the service times, the order of service (two services as tabs), the message, the sermon notes, last week's sermon in short, the announcements, this week's events, Kids, Give, I'm new and Contact, with Download PDF (Letter pages, only what the page shows) and the last twelve under Past bulletins. A Spanish reader gets your Spanish once you've kept it, else the page's own words in Spanish and yours as written. The page is the copy for screen readers; the PDF is for paper. Bulletins stay out of search engines, and the bulletin never carries a song's words or key, plan notes, who's playing, a child's name or anyone's contact details.

From Thursday (or your reminder day) until it's published, the app's Home shows the bulletin's makers one line: "Sunday's bulletin is ready to look over", with Open. Owners, admins, and anyone with Events or Present editing make the bulletin. In Present's Settings, under Screens, the lobby's QR code can open This week's bulletin: see the lobby's info frame.