Keeping track of Newsletters and Notices getting you down?

Do you find that keeping people notified about what you're up to is taking you longer than you'd like each week? Would you like it to take no more than 20 minutes?

We've recently started to use ChatGPT to help speed up our content creation workflow, and free up some extra time in the week for other things. Take a look below for the steps we take to get a professional looking newsletter delivered weekly without the stress!

• 1. Collate the Activities that Week
• 2. Use our ChatGPT prompt to create the content for the newsletter
• 3. Copy and paste the content into Canva
• 4. Send the email :)

1. Collate the Activities that week

This is where we have to leave this bit up to you! As a leadership team we use Slack - for more info see our article here. The only important thing is that by the end of this step you have a list of the things that you want to include in the notices or newsletter?

2. Chuck it at ChatGPT!

We've found the following prompt helpful for the writing of notices and newsletters. Copy and paste it, adding the headlines/items that you'd like to include! If you haven't gotten started with ChatGPT yet, check out our HowTo guide here, and if you're wondering how we might think about AI, check out a reflection by a theologican here

"Acting as a vicar, Could you write a British church newsletter in welcoming language that has the following headings? Format the response as a list please:

Some Examples of headings might be:

1) Church Cleanup This Sunday 2) Prayer Ministry Training beginning Thursday evenings 3) Would anyone like to volunteer for the prayer team?"

Finally, before you do anything else, you might want to thank ChatGPT for its help...

3. Bring the content to Canva

If you haven't checked out our getting started with Canva guide, then please check it out here.

If you have, then have a look for any number of Canva's excellent templates, and choose one that you like. We've found "church newsletter" returned a few that were really helpful for us. Once you have the one you like, simply copy and paste the items from ChatGPT into the blocks in the Canva newsletter.

4. Send the Email!

Check out our guide for email programs such as churchsuite or mailchimp here.

However you're managing your group emails, simply download the finished item from canva, place it in the body of the email (you can have it attached if you prefer, but we promise you it's much prettier if you can see it in the email - and people are much more likely to skim it on their phones than to open an attachment!

As always if you've got any questions, want to know any more or you're doing something similar, leave us a comment below!