Church newsletter
Keep your congregation in the loop. Every week, without the work.
Announcements, events, prayer requests: let them come in through a simple form on your website. Pick the ones for this week, and your newsletter is ready to review and send.
One form for the whole congregation
Put one form on your website with a field for announcements, one for events, and one for prayer requests. Anyone in the congregation can send something in, and it lands where you can find it: no forwarded emails to track down, no separate inbox to check.
- Announcements, events, and prayer requests, all in one place.
- Anyone can send something in, no account needed.
- Nothing gets lost in someone's email.
Pick this week's newsletter, then review and send
Choose what belongs in this week's issue: the announcements, the upcoming events, the prayer requests you want included. MailPoet builds the draft from what you picked. Read it over, then send it when you are ready.
- Select what goes in, leave out what does not.
- The draft is built for you, not sent for you.
- You always read it before it reaches your congregation.
What a finished church newsletter looks like
This church newsletter example has announcements at the top, events below, and prayer requests in their own section. The layout is set once and every week's issue follows it automatically. Short and easy to scan, the way a church email newsletter should read on a phone.
- Announcements, events, and prayer requests, each in their own section.
- Set the design once; every week's issue reuses it.
- Easy to read wherever your congregation opens it.
The same form grows your mailing list
Add a sign-up option to the same form people already use to send in announcements. New members join your newsletter list without filling out anything extra.
- One form serves two jobs: announcements and sign-ups.
- New members opt in without a separate page.
- Your list grows every time someone reaches out.
Start from a free church newsletter template
A ready-made Gravity Forms form for announcements, events, and prayer requests, paired with a MailPoet newsletter already laid out for a weekly issue. Wiring the two together takes a bit of setup the first time. After that, picking what goes in each week and generating the draft takes minutes.
Zip with the Gravity Forms form, the MailPoet newsletter and a short readme. Needs MailPoet for Gravity Forms 1.3 or newer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Church newsletter questions
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What should a church newsletter include?
Most churches cover the basics: announcements, upcoming events, and prayer requests. Some add a short message from the pastor or a scripture for the week. Keep it focused on what your congregation needs to know, not everything you could tell them.
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How often should we send a church newsletter?
Weekly works for most congregations, timed to land before Sunday. If that is too much for your volunteers, biweekly or monthly is fine too. A newsletter people can count on matters more than how often it goes out.
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Does this work with our existing WordPress site?
Yes. It runs inside the WordPress site you already have, on the Gravity Forms and MailPoet you already installed. No separate church newsletter software to sign up for, no new platform, nothing to migrate.
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Do I need any technical skills to set this up?
No coding. Building the form and choosing what goes into each issue both happen in your WordPress dashboard, the same place you already manage your site.
Give your congregation a newsletter that keeps up
Start from the template, connect it to MailPoet, and your church newsletter runs on the schedule you set.
Works with Gravity Forms + MailPoet. AI features need WordPress 6.9+.