Mass Text Messaging for Churches

While mass texting services can have any number of roles within a church, we’ll discuss some of the most important of these below and how texting works for churches:

• Devotionals: How many congregation members have asked about daily devotionals, but there simply has not been a convenient way to create that program? With text messaging, you can send out a devotional each and every day to every person on your list. Not only is this a great way to help build the faith and strength of your congregation members, but it can be an invaluable tool in community outreach. Imagine being able to reach those in the community on the fence about attending church with a daily devotional that will help their faith grow and ultimately may encourage them to attend services.
  
  
• Important Church Notifications: How often has your staff struggled to call everyone involved in a church event to let them know about important changes, or even cancellations? Mass text messaging allows you to instantly reach everyone who needs to know and provide them with crucial information. You can use text to alert congregation members about changes in service hours, about changes to church events, cancellations due to weather, or with safety alerts and much more.
  
  
• Emergency Updates: Many churches become community hubs during dangerous events and weather situations. From flooding to earthquakes, churches are at the heart of it all. You can use text messaging to provide important information to congregation members or community teams, including updates on weather or other dangerous situations, missing persons, the number of available spots for displaced community members within the church, and more.
  
  
• Group Communication: Because mass text messaging for churches can be customized and segmented, it makes an ideal way to communicate with specific groups within your church. For instance, suppose the youth group needs to stay in touch with members about an upcoming camping trip. Text messaging would provide a simple way to do that without having to call each member individually, or try to catch them in person during a service during the week. This fosters better understanding, reduces misunderstandings and miscommunication, and helps any group work as cohesive whole.
  
  
• Added Value to Sermons: Generally speaking, the sermon is one of the most important parts of a church service (for the body of believers as a whole). However, there is often supporting information that would be helpful for congregants to know, but would be difficult to squeeze into the sermon itself. Text messaging can provide a simple, effective means of doing just that. For instance, you could provide further background information about people discussed in the sermon, about the history of Biblical nations, and a great deal more. It’s all about building a better understanding in the minds of your congregation.

Moving Forward

As you can see, there’s a lot of value to be gained in the use of mass text messaging for churches. However, using this technology is not as simple as it sounds. Individually messaging congregation members would be just as time-consuming as making phone calls.

You need a trusted SMS provider to ensure that you’re able to benefit from texting technology but also that you don’t suffer from any drawbacks. 

What should you look for in the right SMS company? There are quite a few important elements, including the number of users the company has, the average delivery rate (and open rate), and the number of texts sent per month.

Pricing is another important consideration, too. Of course, the provider should be comprised of an experienced, dedicated team that is committed to ensuring quality customer service every time. If you would like to learn more about mass text messaging for churches from Sakari, please contact us at: https://sakari.io.

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