Announcements are kind of the worst, aren’t they? In most worship services, the pastor wants more time to speak, the band wants more time to play, and the congregation sure doesn’t seem to care what your executive pastor has to say about next Sunday’s bake sale for your missionaries in Thailand.
And yet, all your ministry leaders complain that their thing never gets enough stage time. And even though you’ve mentioned it—and printed it and made a video about it—for 12 consecutive weeks, your congregation doesn’t seem to have any recollection of your Awana start date.
What a time to be alive in church communications.
At my church, we’ve tried a few different techniques with announcements:
- Beginning of the service: Sometimes we kick off the service with what we affectionately refer to as “verbals.”
- Middle of the service: Other weeks we plop them in the middle of the service during the offering.
- End of the service: Sometimes we hold off and do them at the very end of the service.
Sometimes we have a strategy for why we switch it up, and sometimes we don’t (oops).
There are pros and cons to each. We dive deeper into those in our How to Schedule Announcements resource.
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