Church Spotlight  ·  Submission

Tell Us What Your Church Did.

We feature one congregation an edition. Not the biggest, the newest, or the one with the best building — the one that solved a problem other churches are still stuck on. Free to submit, and you can nominate your own.

What happens after you send this

We read every submission. If we are going to feature you we will email you within about a week, ask anything we still need, and send a one-page release to sign.

If we are not featuring you this edition we will still reply — and we keep submissions on file for the next one, so you do not need to send it twice.

Prefer paper, or want to work on it offline? Download the same form as a fillable PDF → Type straight into it, save it, and email it back to editor@signalandsong.com — or print it and write on it. Either version reaches us the same way.

There is no fee to be featured, ever. Anyone who asks you to pay for editorial coverage in any publication is running something you should walk away from.

How to reach you

All fields marked * are needed before we can run the feature.

Your legal name — we need it for the release form.

Pastor, first lady, media director, administrator, member.

Exactly how you want it printed.

Optional, but it speeds things up.

Names as they should appear in print.

A range is fine. We won’t print it unless it matters to the story.

Or “non-denominational.”

The story — this is the part that matters

Take your time on these — they are the feature.

About 25 words. The thing you did that another church could copy on Monday.

150–250 words. The substance. What did you actually change, build, start or stop? Be concrete — the equipment, the schedule, the decision, the number of people. This is the part another pastor reads and copies.

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100–150 words. Money, volunteers, a hard conversation, a year of Sundays. Naming the cost is what makes the story credible instead of promotional. Please don’t skip this one.

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100–150 words. The outcome, honestly. If it’s still in progress, say so. If part of it didn’t work, say that too — readers trust a story that admits a miss, and we’d rather print it.

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One or two sentences from the pastor or a member, and who said it.

Your church, for the details box

So readers can find you.

Days and times as you’d want a visitor to read them.

Paste the links.

Photographs

So readers can find you.

Required. Dropbox, Google Drive or WeTransfer. At least one landscape image 1600 × 1000 px or larger. Real people, mid-service or mid-work — not an empty sanctuary.

If someone specific took them.

We take this seriously — the magazine itself warns churches about posting children’s photos without consent. We can’t publish a photo without this.

Before you send it — the release

We need your permission to publish. Here is the whole of it in plain language:

  • You let us publish your name, your story, your likeness and the photographs you send, in Signal & Song, and keep that edition in our archive.
  • You let us use excerpts and images to promote the magazine — our site, socials, email list, MBSGGTV and radio.
  • You keep everything. Your photos, your recordings, your name. No copyright transfers to us and you can use your own story anywhere else, any time.
  • We will never sell or licence your story or images to anyone, never use them in advertising for another business, and never present you as endorsing an advertiser.
  • A Spotlight page may carry one “presented by” sponsor credit. Sponsors have no say in what we write and are not told who is being featured.
  • We may edit for length and clarity, never for meaning. Change your mind and we take you out of future editions.
  • You confirm what you have told us is true, that you have the right to give us the photographs, and that everyone identifiable in them has agreed to appear.

Read the full release as a PDF → If we feature you, we will email you this one-page document to sign for our records. Nothing here costs you anything, and we are not paying you either — editorial features are free, and you can never buy one.

We reply to everyone. We do not sell or share your details, and we will not add you to any list you did not ask for.