Community Connection
Community Connection, a quarterly client publication with stories and interesting articles for Minnesota association board members.
Function as editor, storywriter, graphic designer, and contributing photographer for each issue of Community Connection.
- Work with the Minnesota-branch President and North Region Vice President of Marketing to paginate each client-facing publication
- Coordinate with staff for publication stories
Software: Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat.
2019 Holiday Community Connection (pdf)
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Kingdom Now
Kingdom Now: a monthly publication for Open Door, a large church of 3,500 attendees, which captured stories and upcoming events.
As Editor, produced 27 issues of Kingdom Now
- Coordinated the communications of leadership, numerous ministry departments, and membership
- Provided the editing, story writing, design layout of each publication
- Led a Writer’s group to encourage story submissions
Software: Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, and Microsoft Word.
KingdomNow (pdf)
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Kingdom Next
Kingdom Next: an annual publication for Open Door, a large church of 3,500 attendees, which focused on the vision for the upcoming year.
As Editor, produced two issues of the annual publication Kingdom Next.
- Interviewed leadership to develop the story
- Produced the storywriting and graphic design
- Developed the concept which tied into the current message theme
Software: Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, and Microsoft Word.
Kingdom Next (pdf)
Minnesota Walker
Minnesota Walker, official monthly publication for the Minnesota Walking Horse Association.
As editor, worked with the membership to solicit content and stories of 14 issues of the Minnesota Walker
- Produced the original design concept, publication logo design, graphic design for each issue, story writing, and editing
- Created template and style sheets for publication consistency
Software: Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, and Microsoft Word.
Minnesota Walker (pdf)
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LifeTIMES
LifeTIMES, official monthly magazine for Lord of Life, one of the nations largest ELCA churches in the nation.
As Editor, produced the graphic design, copywriting, and editing for seven issues of LifeTIMES.
- Proposed a change to the format from a promotional to a story-based publication
- Coordinated the communications of leadership, ministry departments, and membership
Software: Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, and Microsoft Word.
LifeTIMES (pdf)
LifeTIMES Redesign
Developed a new design concept for the LifeTIMES magazine which better utilized the full-color bleed, center spread, and connected the publication with the dramatic stain-glass artwork that was central to the worship environment.
Software: Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.
LifeTIMES multi-page design (pdf)
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Heritage Highlights
Heritage Highlights: official publication of the International Heritage Walking Horse Association.
Developed the publication design concept.
Designed the covers with extensive image editing using Photoshop for the Heritage Highlights and am a contributing writer.
Software: Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Acrobat.
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Calendar
A Million Reasons to Celebrate calendar covers the first 14 years of Oasis World Ministries in reaching their milestones.
As Editor and copywriter, worked with the President and a graphic designer to develop the calendar concept. Provided copywriting and substantive editing.
Software: Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign.
A Million Reasons to Celebrate calendar (pdf)
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Booklet
One Minute Witness, a 28-page booklet that has been translated into 34 languages and distributed internationally
Provided the substantive editing of the One Minute Witness booklet.
- Edited a 5,000 word manuscript to 1,500 words
- Massaged the text into a consistent tone and voice
One Minute Witness Booklet (pdf)
Visit: One Minute Witness
Visitor
Visitor, official monthly publication of First Lutheran Church of Crystal.
As Editor, coordinated the communications of leadership, ministry departments, and membership to produce 21 issues of the Visitor.
- Provided the design concept, graphic design, and editing of each publication.
Software: Microsoft Publisher and Word; Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat Pro.
Visitor (pdf)
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GraceNotes
GraceNotes, official monthly publication of Grace Lutheran Church of Andover
As Editor, coordinated the communications of leadership, ministry departments, and membership to produce 27 issues of GraceNotes. Also provided the concept development and graphic design and printing. Developed a method to effectively replicate halftone images on a two-color duplicator to replace the clip art theme on covers.
Software: Microsoft Publisher and Word; Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat Pro.
GraceNotes (pdf)
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Messenger
Messenger, official publication of Maple Grove Lutheran Church.
As Editor, coordinated the communications of leadership, ministry departments, and membership to provide 22 issues of the Messenger.
Software: Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.
Messenger (pdf)
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