Sharing Your Church’s Good News Beyond Your Walls: Media Relations for Churches
May 3, 2025 from 10-11:30 am on Zoom
Communications leaders — volunteers and staff, lay and clergy — are invited to spend a Saturday morning digging into media relations for sharing the Good News of God in Christ through your local faith community.
Churches often have interesting and inspiring ministries and activities taking place, but they don’t know who to tell people outside the congregation about them. In this workshop we will talk about what makes a good story, the basics of a news release, and how to share your news with local media and with others in The Episcopal Church.
We’re joined by Melodie Woerman, a church communications professional with decades of experience both pitching and receiving pitches for media stories. Now a freelance writer with bylines in Episcopal News Service, This Christian Century, The Living Church, and more, Melodie spent seventeen years as the director of communications for the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas. During her tenure, she also served many years on the board and as the president of Episcopal Communicators, a professional network of church communications professionals across and beyond the denomination.
Save the date: Zoom workshop on sharing the Good News through your parish website on Wednesday, October 8th from 6:30-8 pm.
Questions about this diocesan program?
Contact Canon Katie Forsyth, canon for communications, at kforsyth@diosohio.org.
DATE & LOCATION
May 3rd from 10-11:30 am
The session will gather on Zoom.
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There is no cost to participate in this webinar and no deadline to register.
