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Whether you’re considering a visit to Emerson or just looking around our web site—hello! We extend you our warmest welcome! Emerson Church is a special place. We have never experienced a congregation as supporting and loving as this one is. And the scope of our outreach, activities, groups and programs is quite broad. Please do visit us soon—we look forward to getting to know you!

Revels A twice-monthly column from our ministers

Two items for your reading pleasure:

#1 A continuing review of our communications efforts at Emerson have begun to yield several observations:

We have too much to communicate in too small a space or time.

We have far too many gatekeepers (five) that must be separately informed if one wants to get the word out within Emerson.

The appearances of our various communications are so dissimilar they each look like they come from different organizations.

It is unlikely that we are using electronic media as effectively as finances and technology would allow.

We will soon exceed (if we haven’t already) the amount of time that communication volunteers can give to handle all of the tasks which they have gamely undertaken (i.e. webmaster).

As a first step in addressing these issues we are exploring some changes in the newsletter. The first change involves bringing the newsletter editing and layout into the church office so that we can have a better synchronization between the church calendar (kept in the office) and the material in the newsletter. So with this issue we are saying farewell to Jane Nilsson who has served Emerson so well for many years as our Editor.Jane has assembled millions of words for us for a decade. She has carefully made sure that many programs got promoted and has had to make some tough judgment calls. She has done very well for us. But the amount of material we need to send out and the turn around time for pulling off that feat is tripping us up. SO - whatever you wish to have in the next issue of the newsletter please send to nancy@emersonhouston.org. You may also submit materials to Nancy Lipp (Emerson’s office assistant) directly but electronic communications are always best. Any programs from the last week of March through April will be in the next issue.