For the church admin with a bulletin due this Sunday, and the Sunday after that…
Microsoft Publisher is retiring. Your bulletin isn't.
Here's what happens when it goes away: your bulletin moves into Affinity, the free design app from Canva, and Sunday carries on exactly as it always has.
Short lessons, plain language, and a workbook you practice in before you touch the file that prints. What you end up with isn't just this week's bulletin. It's knowing how to make every one after it.
Rescue My BulletinYou've made your church's bulletin the same way for years. And now the tool you rely on is going away, the deadline still comes every single week, and everyone on Facebook is shouting the same unhelpful advice: “just use Canva!”
Here's what that advice misses: for a folded, multi-page bulletin, Canva runs out of road about ten minutes in.
The one question that sorts it out
Single flat sheet? Or a real print job?
Canva is wonderful for a single flat sheet. A flyer, a sign, a social graphic. And the moment something folds, stacks multiple pages, or has to line up front-to-back, you've reached the edge of what Canva was built for.
And your bulletin? It folds. It has pages that line up. It's a real print job.
A real print job calls for a real layout tool. That's Affinity. And Affinity is free.
Included with every enrollment
Learn it by doing it, not just watching it.
Every lesson comes with a two-page spread in your Bulletin Rescue workbook. The left page shows you exactly what you're building. The right page is yours, already loaded with the right words, waiting for you to match the formatting yourself.
You'll open the real Affinity file, not a locked PDF, and you'll keep it. Every file can be downloaded again, so you can start any spread over as many times as you like.
From a blank page to a folded, printed bulletin in your hands
And you'll actually understand how you did it.
INSIDE THE COURSE:
- ✶Setting up a folded booklet correctly from the very first click
- ✶Formatting your order of worship so it lines up clean and even
- ✶Responsive readings, liturgical symbols, and the church-specific things no generic tutorial teaches
- ✶Adding your logo and photos so they never print blurry
- ✶Saving your church's colors once and reusing them forever
- ✶Printing a folded booklet so the pages come out in the right order (the one everyone gets wrong)
Built entirely around your bulletin
There are plenty of “learn Affinity” tutorials on YouTube. This course is different, because it's built around the thing you actually make: the order of worship, responsive readings, the cross and the versicle marks, folded-booklet printing.
It's the church-specific help you actually need, from someone who's made a thousand bulletins.
Who's teaching you
Twenty years of church bulletins taught me this system.
I'm Leslie, founder of Studio Kons and Director of Music & Digital Ministry at my own congregation. I've built the order of worship more Sundays than I can count, first in Publisher, now in Affinity, and I built Bulletin Rescue around the exact things that trip up church admins: folded booklets, responsive readings, liturgical symbols, and getting the pages to print in the right order.
Before you decide
“I'm not techy.”
This course assumes no design experience. Every lesson does one thing, in plain language, and you practice in a workbook file rather than in the bulletin that has to print.
“I don't have time to learn software.”
You don't need to. You need this week's bulletin done. Every lesson is one small, do-it-now task, titled so you can find it again later.
“Is the software really free?”
Yes. Affinity is completely free. You'll never pay a subscription to make your bulletin.
“What if I mess up my bulletin?”
You practice in the workbook, not in your real bulletin. Every workbook file can be downloaded again, so any spread can be started over as many times as you like.
Included, not an upsell
You also get 30 days in The Commons
One hour of a designer’s time costs more than this entire course. You get thirty days of me.
- ✶Post your bulletin before it prints and I’ll look it over. Far better to catch a fold problem on Thursday than after two hundred copies.
- ✶Start something in Canva and I’ll tweak it for you. Flyers, slides, social graphics, whatever else landed on your desk this week.
- ✶Ask about the rest of the job too. Your website, your newsletter, your social accounts, the things nobody trained you for either.
- ✶Everything already in the community is open to you, including every question other church communicators have asked before you got here.
No cap on questions. No ticket queue. Just ask.
My happiness guarantee
If Bulletin Rescue isn't the right fit within your first 14 days, email me and I'll refund you in full. No forms, no hoops.
Got questions?
I've never used design software. Will I actually be able to do this?
Does this work on both Mac and Windows?
Is Affinity really free?
What if I get stuck partway through?
How long do I have access to the course?
What if it's just not the right fit?
Your bulletin, handled.
Publisher goes away in October. Your bulletin still prints every Sunday. This is the part where you get it sorted out on a Tuesday afternoon, with time to spare.
Course + workbook + 30 days in The Commons · lifetime access · just $47
Rescue My Bulletin ($47)
