Church Secretary & Church Office Hats

The church secretary is the first voice on the phone when hard news comes in, and the person who collects every parish announcement and somehow crafts it into a bulletin insert that makes sense, as one tribute to the role puts it. The duties run well past the typing: events from weddings to potlucks to funerals, and often the money side too, such as expense reports and giving statements. The bulletin is also its own comedy genre. Newspapers and the religion press have run bulletin-blooper roundups for years, from "Lunch will be gin at 12:15 p.m." to "Church office will be closed Monday. Halleluia. Halleluia." These church secretary and church administrator hats put the role on the brim. Two badges carry the job titles people actually search, and CHURCH SECRETARY EXTRAORDINAIRE borrows a phrase already sold on church secretary mugs. The sentence designs are for the one at the desk: the typo left in on purpose, laying hands on the copier, hearing the prayer requests first, and the deadpan OFFICE CLOSED MONDAY HALLELUJAH, set in the cadence of a real bulletin. A published church-admin gift guide advises against mugs, pens and desk calendars, which leaves a hat as an Administrative Professionals Day gift, held on the Wednesday of the last full week of April. The Extraordinaire and copier lines each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat.