Publish the weekly bulletin
Upload the bulletin PDF so members can read it in the app, and see what members find on the Bulletins page.
Who does thisSecretary or webmaster
Each week’s printed bulletin can go into the app as a PDF. Members read it on the Bulletins page, along with a short “This Sunday” summary.
Before you start
- You need to be the secretary (or whatever your church calls the office role) or the webmaster.
- Save the bulletin as a PDF of 15 MB or less.
Steps
- Open Administration → Sunday and make sure the right Sunday is chosen.
- Under Bulletin PDF, use Choose the PDF to pick the file, then tap Upload PDF.
- You’ll see “Bulletin PDF saved.” Tap Open it to check it’s the right file.
- To fix a mistake, choose the new file and tap Replace PDF.
Fill in the Sunday page from the PDF
Some churches have a Fill in this Sunday from the PDF button under the bulletin. It depends on how your church is set up. If you have it:
- Tap the button. The page fills in the boxes it found and highlights them.
- Check every highlighted box, then tap Save all … sections (or Save in each part).
- It may also offer last Sunday’s attendance and offering, next Sunday’s servants, and the bulletin’s announcements. Tap Use next to an announcement to put it in the announcement form, then edit it and add it.
Nothing is saved until you save it. With some setups, the bulletin’s text is sent to an AI service to be read. It is not stored there.
What members see
On Bulletins, members first see This Sunday: the message, who leads the service, today’s servants, servants for next Sunday, last Sunday’s offering and attendance, and any Family of the Week or Missionary Spotlight.
Below that, each current bulletin has a Read bulletin button. It opens the PDF one page at a time, with Download PDF and Open larger view. A text version of each page is shown below the reader. A bulletin stays on this page for 35 days after it is first uploaded.
If something goes wrong
- “Choose a PDF of 15 MB or less.” The file is too big or isn’t a PDF. Save it again as a smaller PDF.
- “This PDF is for …, not …” The PDF’s date is a different Sunday. Tap the button to open that Sunday instead.
- “Nothing in this PDF looked like the bulletin.” or “The bulletin couldn’t be read just now.” Fill in the sections by hand. A scanned picture of a bulletin can’t be read.
- Members don’t see the bulletin. See Sunday troubleshooting.