David
Mays, ACMC
This is the way
We show we obey:
Every church can
afford
A bulletin board.
We’re reminded to
pray
For the people who go
Proclaiming the Lord
By the bulletin
board.
You may need a guide
Who knows where it is
To point you toward
The bulletin board.
A way down the hall
Forlorn on the wall,
Aerograms stored
By the bulletin
board.
Letters tacked up
Row upon row
From servants adored
On the bulletin
board.
In remodeled churches
Where everything’s
new
What’s not restored
Is the bulletin
board.
Map, pins and
pictures
Surrounded by
scallops
As green as a gourd
Is the bulletin
board.
The pins and the
pictures
Connected by yarn
With dust on the cord
On the bulletin
board.
Sideburns and flat
tops
Kids now full grown:
Memories stored
On the bulletin
board.
It’s sorry to see
How dull it can be.
Bored out of your
gourd?
It’s the bulletin
board.
More likely than not
The church has
forgot.
It’s long been
ignored
The bulletin board.
I picture a day when
“Wow, Look at that! “
I’m staggered and
floored
By the bulletin
board.
Bulletin Board
Tips
1. Locate it where everyone will see it. If you have one now, move it.
2. Recruit someone esthetic and creative to do it. Perhaps two or three people could take
turns.
3.
Focus on one thing 1 missionary,
1 country,
1strategy,
1concept,
1event.
4.
Try bright, bold colors.
5.
Exaggerate.
Make everything
disproportionately large. People should
be able
to see what is shown, read what is written, and catch the drift at a brisk walk
15 feet away.
|
Go
outside the boundaries. |
6.
Break
the rules.
Use large objects, unusual
textures, fabrics, collages. Make it
three dimensional.
7.
Change it
at least every decade.