You can print all the information in the catalog from this web site, but we also print around 3,000 copies of an 80-page (or so) catalog each year. It costs about $1.50 per copy to provide paper copies, but that's one way to reach a large number of potential participants. (The catalog is convenient and never loses power - and do you see people taking laptops into bathrooms?) Most of our marketing is via word of mouth from previous SUUSI participants, but if our information distribution is effective and the universe evolves as it should, about 900-1,000 people should come to SUUSI each year...
We usually mail catalogs near the start of April. Mailing costs are substantial, and we always try to minimize the administrative costs for SUUSI, so we mail catalogs via a bulk rate. It saves a large percentage of the postage cost, but delivery typically takes 5-21 days.
We send catalogs to congregations after we mail them to individual addresses. (In theory at least, few "old time SUUSI people" will pick up a duplicate copy on Sunday, if they already have received their personal copy at home, so the copies sent to congregations will reach new-to-SUUSI folks.)
If you think you might come to SUUSI this year or next, please add your name to the mailing list for future SUUSI catalogs.
Each year, there's a different graphic that illuminates the theme for SUUSI. We use the annual image on the catalog cover, as well as on annual editions of the SUUSI T-shirt. There's a great quilt of catalog covers, scanned by Jim Blowers.
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