The Journey Production Process
Mission:
To serve Christ as a team volunteering to produce The Journey
newsletter for the purpose of supporting the mission and goals
of McKinney Fellowship Bible Church in "Helping People To
Follow Christ."
Focus:
Every issue will contain featured articles that focus on the mission
of McKinney Fellowship Bible Church in "Helping People To
Follow Christ."
The primary source for those featured articles at this
time is Bruce Miller and Steve Swadley.
The McFBC Calendar
of Events outlines the focus and direction of activities
Web Facilitation:
As featured articles are determined, they will be posted on The
Journey's Web site as a single point of reference for the team.
A planning schedule is posted at this site containing information
about the team, automatic email functionality,
this process, the production
schedule, the McFBC calendar
of events, featured
articles with their assignment and status and a final
product of the newsletter.
Each team member can select to author articles based
on the featured listings and the Calendar of Events.
Communication to Dale via email will assist in posting
article assignments.
Authoring:
It is a goal that the team member authoring the article walks
their document through the production process until the current
issue is released including but not limited to the following:
Article selection
Personal Interviews
Research
Writing
Editing
One month is being provided for articles to be written.
This will also allow for photographs to be taken. Due dates for
articles are the first of the production month.
Once the article is written, it is submitted to both
an editor and/or Dale in a text (.TXT), Word document (.DOC),
or Rich Text (.RTF) format for the editing and design phase.
The editing, design and layout of
the newsletter will occur in a two-week period.
Editing:
Dale will post the authored article to the Web site for access.
The Editor will edit the article and return the article
to the person who is doing the design/layout in PageMaker and/or
Dale.
Dale will re-post the article to the Web site for access.
Designing & Layout:
The Designer lays out the article and returns it to Dale.
Certain procedures will need to happen with the design
and layout phase in order to accommodate the printing of the newsletter.
For example, a design template will need to be maintained graphics
need to be included in the document, standardization of fonts,
etc. As the process develops more information will be added here.
Dale will format the document as a PDF (Portable Document
Format) document and post it to the Web site for review and access
by the staff and team.
Review:
Comments regarding the newsletter, edits and changes can be communicated
by email.
Edits and changes to the newsletter will be made.
Final review and sign off on the document.
Printing:
The document will be given to Ken Lorenzini for printing in both
printed and electronic form. Ken needs 3-5 days to print the newsletter.
Ken will proof the document before it is printed.
Alterations will be made only if absolutely necessary.
Bulk Mailing:
After printing and collating the newsletter, Ken will deliver
to Suzee Bolton who coordinates with volunteers the bulk mailing
of the newsletter.
Suzee needs three days to coordinate volunteers and
prepare the mailing. Dale is available after hours to assist with
this process.
Mailing:
Since The Journey is provided to members of the church, the mailing
is local so three days will be estimated for receipt.
General availability will be by the last day of the
month no later than the first of the month.
Pray!
Pray that as God builds this church that God will fill each one
with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and
understanding in order that each one may live a life worthy of
the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every
good work, growing in the knowledge of God, and being strengthened
with all power according to his glorious might so that each one
may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks
to the Father, who has qualified each one to share in the inheritance
of the saints in the kingdom of light, for he has rescued us from
the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the
Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Col. 1:9-14