I get my church newsletter monthly via e-mail so I can stay up to date on the happenings of my church, St. Olaf in Austin while I am away at school. I signed up for this, just because I thought it was easier than getting a newsletter in the mail every month. Well, I got the April newsletter today and in it, was a nice little article about how they are now encouraging our church members to start receiving the newsletter by e-mail because it is cheaper and is better for our environment. They stated that it is about $.45 a newsletter to send out, that may not seem like a lot, but add it up and it comes out to about $589.50 a month in newsletters alone! Add that up and it comes out to $7,045 a year! Not only is that a high cost, but these newsletters are sometimes pretty thick, so it's a lot of trees! Right now, only about 20 members of the congregation are going green, and getting the newsletters online, and it's already saving my church around $9 a month! I thought it was cool to see this coming from my church and tying it into this class! I put in here the actual little article itself, in case you want to re-read everything I just said ;)
Going Green
As part of our “Going Green” efforts at St. Olaf, we
are giving our members the opportunity to receive the
monthly newsletter via e-mail. Not only is this option
environmentally friendly, it is extremely cost effective.
Currently, it costs St. Olaf Church about $.45 to
produce and mail one newsletter. This may not seem
like much, but when you add all households together,
we’re looking at $589.50 a month, and $7,074 a year!
Currently we have about 20 people signed up to
receive their monthly newsletter through e-mail.
That’s an estimated $9 a month savings. Just imagine
if we could double that amount…triple that amount! If
you have internet access, please consider signing up.
Just go to www.stolafchurch.org, scroll down until
you see the “Going Green” box and enter your e-mail
address. It’s that simple.
Samantha Vaith,
Administrative Assistant
As part of our “Going Green” efforts at St. Olaf, we
are giving our members the opportunity to receive the
monthly newsletter via e-mail. Not only is this option
environmentally friendly, it is extremely cost effective.
Currently, it costs St. Olaf Church about $.45 to
produce and mail one newsletter. This may not seem
like much, but when you add all households together,
we’re looking at $589.50 a month, and $7,074 a year!
Currently we have about 20 people signed up to
receive their monthly newsletter through e-mail.
That’s an estimated $9 a month savings. Just imagine
if we could double that amount…triple that amount! If
you have internet access, please consider signing up.
Just go to www.stolafchurch.org, scroll down until
you see the “Going Green” box and enter your e-mail
address. It’s that simple.
Samantha Vaith,
Administrative Assistant
I think its the little things like this that are going to start helping our environment :)
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Great job to your Church!! I can see this becoming a more common thing. Sweet!
ReplyDeleteThat's really neat Heather. I think that's a very great alternative what you're church is doing. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteWow this is cool, who knew that your church was being so cool! Good find, Heather! Yay, go green St. Olaf=)
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