Bulletin Builder: the church bulletin maker

Sign in with your email

Go to bulletins.maconapps.com, enter your church office email address and click Email me a sign-in link. Open the link in the email and you are signed in. There is no password.

• The link works once and expires after 20 minutes; request another any time.
• New accounts get 3 days of Pro automatically, with no card on file.
• Use one account per church. Everyone who shares the office mailbox shares the account.

Enter your church details once

On the Bulletins page, scroll to Church details and fill in the church name, tagline, service times, pastor, address, phone, email and website. Pick an accent color if you like, then click Save church details.

• These details print on the cover and back page of every bulletin and head the digital bulletin, so you only type them once.
• Saving the name creates your church link (for example …/c/st-luke-s-episcopal-church). You can change the link text; letters, numbers and dashes only.
• Click Download permanent QR code (SVG) to get the code for your signage or welcome slide. It never changes.

Create the bulletin and type the service

At the top of the Bulletins page, check the Service date (it defaults to next Sunday) and click New bulletin. The editor opens with a standard order of worship already in place.

1. Fill in the Cover: sermon title, scripture, preacher and a short cover note. The internal label (for example "Pentecost 19") is only for your list.
2. Work down the Order of worship. Each row has a type (Hymn, Prayer, Scripture…), a title and a detail line for hymn numbers, verses or the reader's name. Use the arrows to reorder, ✕ to remove, and + Add item for more.
3. Watch the Preview on the right update as you type.
4. Click Save or press Ctrl+S (⌘+S on a Mac). The status shows the last save time.

Add announcements, the prayer list and notes

Below the order of worship:

• Announcements: click + Add announcement for this week's news (title, then details), or Add active ones from library to pull in every recurring announcement that is active on the service date.
• Welcome paragraph: an optional note printed inside the front cover.
• Prayer list: one name or request per line.
• Back-page note: office hours, bulletin deadline, nursery information.
• QR code: leave the box ticked to print the digital-bulletin QR code on the back page.

The Announcement library itself lives on the Bulletins page. Give each item an optional Show from and Show until date and it appears in new bulletins only while it is active.

Download the booklet PDF and print it

Choose the sheet size in the toolbar (Letter is the usual half-letter booklet; Legal and A4 are available) and click Booklet PDF. The PDF downloads to your computer; it is built right in the browser.

1. Open the PDF and print double-sided.
2. Choose flip on short edge (sometimes called short-edge binding). On most copiers this is the default for landscape duplex.
3. Fold the stack in half. Page 1 is the cover, the last page is the back.

Print one copy first and fold it. If the back side comes out upside down, switch to long-edge flip. Set the printer to actual size rather than fit-to-page so margins stay consistent.

Need single pages for email or a screen? Click Flat PDF instead.

Publish the digital bulletin

Click Publish digital bulletin in the toolbar. Two things happen:

• The bulletin gets its own web page (Open shows it; the address is listed under the toolbar) with a QR button for a code that points to this specific bulletin.
• Your permanent church link and QR code now open this bulletin as the latest one. Next week, publish again and the same code opens the new bulletin.

Visitors see the church name, service time, sermon, order of worship, announcements, prayer list and contact details on a page sized for phones. Nothing needs to be installed.

Changed your mind? Click Unpublish digital bulletin and the page goes private again. Edits to a published bulletin go live when you save.

Next week: copy and change what's different

On the Bulletins page, click Copy to new on last week's bulletin. A new bulletin opens for the next service date with the same order of worship, cover note and prayer list. The sermon, scripture and one-off announcements are cleared, and any library announcements active on the new date are added automatically.

• Edit reopens a bulletin; View opens its public page; Delete asks for confirmation first.
• The list shows each bulletin's date, your internal label and whether it is published.
• On the Free plan the three most recent bulletins are kept; delete an old one to make room, or move to Pro for unlimited history.

Fold any PDF with the free booklet tool

If you design the bulletin elsewhere (Word, Google Docs, Canva, a leftover Publisher export), the PDF to booklet tool rearranges its pages so that, printed double-sided and folded, they read in order. No account is needed and the file never leaves your computer.

1. Drop the PDF on the page or click Choose a PDF.
2. Pick the sheet size (Letter, Legal, A4 or A3) and whether the last page should stay the back cover.
3. Click Make booklet PDF. The page count is padded to a multiple of four with blank pages, and the result downloads.

It is the same imposition engine Bulletin Builder uses for its own booklets, so the printing instructions above apply.