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Church Templates
The print a congregation actually makes: something new every single week. 6 templates for the bulletin, the order of service, the announcement on the noticeboard and the program a family needs on the hardest week of their life. Every line is editable text, and no denomination, no verse and no translation is assumed — the placeholders are structural, so the words are yours.
| Trim sizes | 8.5 × 11 in · 5.5 × 8.5 in · 5 × 7 in |
|---|---|
| Bleed | none |
| Resolution target | 300 DPI |
| Templates | 6 |
| Pages | 6 |
No templates match that.
Church templates (6)
Built for the week, not for the launch
Most template sets are built for something that happens once. A church prints on a cycle, and that changes what a good template is.
The test is not how it looks the first time. It is whether the person doing it on Thursday evening — usually a volunteer, usually in a hurry — can change the readings, swap the photograph and get it to the copier without the layout moving. So the order of service is a list of separate lines rather than one text block, the announcements sit in their own area, and the masthead does not shift when a line is added underneath it.
The sermon series poster is the clearest case. It is designed to be reprinted every week with one line changed — the week's title — while the series title, the artwork and the dates stay put.
No denomination is assumed, and that is deliberate
There is no verse, no translation, no creed and no denominational mark anywhere in these files. That is not an oversight and it is not neutrality for its own sake — it is the only way one template serves a Baptist bulletin and a Catholic order of service without insulting either.
What that means in practice: every placeholder is structural. "Opening hymn" is a slot, not a recommendation. If your tradition puts the offering before the sermon, move the line — the layout does not care, because nothing is anchored to anything below it.
Print it on the copier, not at a shop
This is the one place a church print set differs most from a commercial one, and getting it wrong wastes a whole run.
The bulletin, the announcement flyer and the sermon series poster carry no bleed. That is correct for a photocopier: a copy machine cannot print to the edge of the sheet, so a design that reaches the paper's edge comes out with a white margin around it and everything shifted. Designed without bleed, the sheet you copy is the sheet you meant.
The 5.5 × 8.5 order of service and memorial program are the exception worth understanding. They are half of a Letter sheet, so you print two-up on 8.5 × 11 and cut down the middle — one sheet of paper, two programs, no special stock and no shop.
The memorial program deserves its own paragraph
A family is making this in the two days after a death, and they should not have to make design decisions while they do it.
So the portrait slot is already sized and positioned, the dates sit where a reader looks for them, and the order of the service runs underneath in one column that reflows cleanly if there are five items or twelve. There is nothing decorative to remove. The palette is quiet on purpose — bright primaries are wrong here and no ordering rule should ever put them in front of somebody in that week.
What the photograph is doing
Five of the six templates carry a single photo slot, and it is load-bearing rather than decorative: on a page with no verse and no denominational mark, the photograph is what makes a bulletin feel like your church rather than a form.
Square works best. A photograph placed at 6.40 × 6.40 inches at 300 DPI covers every slot in this set, and a picture of your own building, your own hall or your own people beats anything generic — including anything we could supply.
Questions
What size is a church bulletin?
8.5 × 11, printed on a copier, is the common weekly format and it is what the bulletin here is built at. The folded alternative is a Letter sheet folded to 5.5 × 8.5, which is what the order of service uses. Both print on ordinary paper from an ordinary machine.
What is the difference between a bulletin and an order of service?
The bulletin is the whole handout — the order of service plus announcements, notices and contact details. The order of service is only the running order of the service itself. Small churches often print one document doing both, which is what the weekly bulletin here is; larger ones print the order of service separately for occasions.
Do I need bleed?
Not for anything going through a copier, and most of this set is built with none. Use bleed only when a commercial printer is trimming the sheet — a seasonal card sent out as a mailer, for example. Turning bleed on for a photocopy job makes the result worse, not better.
Can I print the order of service two-up?
Yes, and that is what the 5.5 × 8.5 trim is for. Two per Letter sheet, cut down the middle. It halves both the paper and the time at the machine.
Can I change the order of the service?
Yes. Every line is a separate text element, so lines can be retyped, reordered, added or deleted and nothing below them jumps. Nothing in the file assumes a particular liturgy.
Is there a verse or a translation in these?
No, and there deliberately never will be. Placeholders are structural — "reading", "hymn", "message" — so the text is yours and no translation is chosen for you.
Can I use these for a funeral outside a church?
Yes. The memorial program carries no denominational mark, so it works equally as a celebration of life program at any venue. The only thing to change is the wording of the headings.
Can I use these commercially?
Yes, including for a church that charges for an event, and including work you do for a congregation as a paid designer. No royalty, no credit, and the permission does not expire. That is true on the free plan as well as the paid one, and it stays true if you cancel.