Purpose: To prepare and distribute the monthly Fellowship Newsletter.Job description and specific duties:
- Collect regular reports, articles, listings, announcements, and church calendar information via email and in newsletter in-box. Send out reminder for items that are late or don't come in. Timing is important: the newsletter should be emailed to the QUUF office at least two days before the last Thursday of the month, when it is collated and mailed. The mailing days may vary occasionally, according to the calendar.
- Type the information into the computer document, edit, and arrange in newsletter format. Word processing skills are essential.
- Decide when to cut and stretch in order to use the available space for information most likely to interest and inform the congregation.
- Have someone proofread the newsletter.
- Convert finished document into two versions of a pdf file (screen & press).
- Email pdf in "print" format to Office Manager. Email pdf in "screen" format to email list.
- Maintain the email list for those members who want their newsletter sent electronically. Exchange information with office administrator on a regular basis regarding the emailed newsletters list.
- Decide, with the Board, what newsletter policy shall be.
- Advertise upcoming services weekly in The Port Townsend Leader and The Peninsula Daily News, and monthly in the QUUF Newsletter.