For The One Church

For The One Church (ONE Church) is an active client I support across worship night graphics, Easter campaigns, banners, stickers, lanyards, and the print coordination that goes with all of it. My main contacts are Pastor Andy Riemersma and Michelle. Most of the actual print runs go to Rich Mathiesen at Fineline Printing Group, with me providing the vector files and routing approvals.

How we started

Andy and Michelle bring me into the design loop early and trust me to talk directly with the printer. That setup matters because it removes the middle step where a pastor has to play telephone between a designer and a print rep. When Rich at Fineline has a question about how many stickers to make or what surface they are sticking to, the thread keeps everyone on it and we land the answer fast.

I also handle the lanyard graphics for ONE Kids ministry and the GIVE signage that lives at the church entry points.

The work

The Easter 2026 campaign was the biggest concentrated stretch. It included: the Easter backdrop with multiple design directions (I sent three rounds of options between March 19 and March 20), an Easter social graphic resized with the time and date inside the logo block per Andy's request, an Easter banner that went straight to Rich at Fineline for printing without a proof step because we had been through enough cycles by then to skip it, and the Easter handouts that Rich dropped off at the church Leadership Center directly. The whole campaign was about a two-week sprint.

Around the same period I also delivered: a Worship Night graphic refreshed with a newer photo from Sarah's library and a date update from August to April 29, the Annual Organizational Meeting graphic with a date correction from May 14 to May 13, retractable banners in red and white (the black version was already in use, so I sourced a black box behind the white logo to keep it legible), the ONE church logo sticker vector file routed to Fineline with the print specs to be confirmed by Andy, a Mother's Day social graphic, and the ONE Kids lanyard for Michelle.

The GIVE Sign for ONE Church went out May 27, 2026 to Rich at Fineline with Michelle copied. The Give Sticker logo, in vector white per Woody's request, went to Andy on May 5.

A specific moment: the three-color banner clarification

April 2026. I sent Andy a proof of a banner and asked if it was good to send to Rich. His reply, same day: "Hey Emily! We already have the black one… We actually just need a red one and a white one. We're going to keep the black one where it's at. So 3 different colors."

I had misread the request. I went back, built a red and a white version, and worked around the constraint that the Y logo color cannot be changed by putting a black box behind the logo on the white version so it stayed visible. Sent back same day. Andy's reply on April 13: "These banners work! Thanks!!" Then I forwarded the file pack to Rich at Fineline to print with the same black frames we had used before.

What I like about that exchange is how fast it resolved. I missed the spec on the first read. Andy clarified in one short message. The fix went out the same day. No back-and-forth about whose fault it was, no rebuild from scratch. The relationship is built to absorb that kind of small miss.

A second moment: the Annual Organizational Meeting date typo

I sent Andy a graphic for the Annual Organizational Meeting. He wrote back: "Looks good to me! Just change: may 14 to May 13." I sent the fix, forgot to update something on the file, and he caught it before printing. The corrected version went out that night.

This is the unglamorous reality of church graphic design. Half the wins are not catching the typo before print. The other half is being responsive enough that when the typo is caught after you send, you have the next version turned around in under an hour.

In their words

Andy on the corrected April 29 worship night graphic, April 13, 2026: "Looks great can you just update the date to April 29? It has August. Thanks!!" After the update went out: a thumbs-up forward, no rework needed.

Where things stand

ONE Church engagement is active and steady. I am on an updated employee contract with Andy as of May 1, 2026 (signed and returned May 6). Current work flow is open requests from Andy and Michelle directly, with print coordination running through Fineline. The May Recharge events and the June campaign series are in the active queue as of this writing.