Solutions for...Pastors
Once you are caring for or mentoring a group of people, large or small, you are symbolically a “Pastor”, and this tool is for you. As a Pastor, you want to connect and reach more people for Christ. Using tools doesn’t replace your role, it enhances it.
Here’s how using PastorsLine text, voice, and automation features increase your engagement, mentorship, and discipleship, with both members and visitors.
“PastorsLine is amazing [because of] the personal touch and care from the team. [It] was so refreshing; they made you feel like they have known you forever. There was never a time that my questions were not taken with the utmost kindest care and patience. I thank all of them for making the experience one I will never forget, and one I will definitely share with everyone. I recommend this app and the team to all my fellow pastors. Thank you for all you do to be so helpful.
[The only ‘con’ is] that I didn't know about it years before. Had I known about [PastorsLine] sooner, it would have prevented me from sending each and everyone a personal text every week . I would sit, on Sunday morning and click 600 times just to send 100 texts. Now, it is just a few [clicks]. Thank God, my finger has healed. Thank you.”
Denver S., Pastor
“PastorsLine is amazing [because of] the personal touch and care from the team. [It] was so refreshing; they made you feel like they have known you forever. There was never a time that my questions were not taken with the utmost kindest care and patience. I thank all of them for making the experience one I will never forget, and one I will definitely share with everyone. I recommend this app and the team to all my fellow pastors. Thank you for all you do to be so helpful.
[The only ‘con’ is] that I didn't know about it years before. Had I known about [PastorsLine] sooner, it would have prevented me from sending each and everyone a personal text every week . I would sit, on Sunday morning and click 600 times just to send 100 texts. Now, it is just a few [clicks]. Thank God, my finger has healed. Thank you.”
Denver S., Pastor
Are you experiencing symptoms identified in a recent study of Pastors—symptoms such as:
54%
Working over 55 hours a week
54%
Feeling overworked
43%
Feeling overstressed
28%
Observing that you are spiritually undernourished
23%
Having a distance from your family
90%
But still honored to be a "Pastor?"
Then keep reading! You’ve reached the right page.
Sermons
Make your sermon time even more effective. Use texting before, during and after your sermon to increase interest, raise your attendance and improve your follow-up.
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Poll sermon attendees for feedback of your current sermon.
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Open up the floor for Q&A via text—deal with them immediately or follow-up later.
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Announce the phone number + keyword opt-in for first-time guests.
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Inform your audience of how to opt-in to any current/future special events or projects— Christmas/Easter programs, VBS, volunteer projects, church drives, etc.
Discipleship
Intensify your discipleship process.
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Reduce the percentages of guests falling through the cracks.
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Lower church member non-attendance.
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Increase small group attendance.
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Encourage more of your ministry to take those next steps toward Christ.
Time
Maximize your time. Scheduled messages and autoresponders mean that you can set things up once, and they will run on their own...freeing you up to attend to other duties.
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Automations allow you to communicate during the week, not just during your sermon.
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Our integrations with popular church management systems (ChMs) help to keep your data updated AND reduce your workload.
Connections
Expand your connections. There’s always a relevant reason to text your congregation. This communication will make your congregants feel more connected to you and each other.
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Send/receive a variety of messages such as announcements and reminders.
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Have a Prayer Request ‘hotline’.
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Poll your congregation about their opinions and future needs/wants.
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Send birthday wishes.
Core Features
All these features are available and included in our free trial and all paid plans.
direct, automated data capture via phone from those interested
mobile keywords to opt in to different church campaigns
automatically create and manage groups
gather information via online forms
polls and surveys
personalized, bulk text messaging
personalized birthday wishes
contests
create and schedule a series of automated messages
2-way integrations with CCB and Planning Center (MailChimp is next)
Information to get you started
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Overall, texts are the most opened, fastest read and most responded to type of communication. When you think about your audience’s needs like Jesus did, texting becomes the preferred way for Pastors to do more in less time, staying connected to their audience’s needs while creating some insulation between their own spaces and those of their audience.
Dozens of churches are already using
PastorsLine and seeing success.
The PastorsLine platform is a church-driven, bulk texting platform developed and managed by church ‘insiders’. We know churches intimately. We’ve attended them, been part of their management teams and worked with them for many years. Our goal is to serve you by helping you spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. We’ve positioned ourselves to be your in-house, IT team for solutions to your communication issues. In addition to everything our platform can do, our partners love our responsiveness to their needs and fast tech support.
The land line is more familiar with our congregation. When we texted from the other number, some would inquire about who was sending the text as the number was unfamiliar, and we did not use it frequently, so by the time we sent another text, some had forgotten the number.
Myrna and Peter Rohdin
New Life Fellowship Church, Elmhurst, NY
I honestly never realized how many people must have been trying to text our landline all along! We never advertised our landline as a number you could text, but we have gotten multiple members of our congregation and even guests from some of our events to send us texts saying, ‘Thank you for this and that’, and it has been really great to see!
Heather Bredeman
Joy Christian, Center,
St. Cloud, MN
PastorsLine has been a fantastic tool which has enhanced communication with out church family. As with any tool, the secret is in learning how to use it effectively. I have been most excited when I see my church members telling their very own unchurched friends to text “PRAY” to our pastorsline number and have them join our prayer sessions.
Paolo Esposito
Pastors, RGF Church
PastorsLine has totally changed not only my workflow, but it's taken our "personal" factor up 10x! Just with our welcome process, we have gone from a 40% READ rate to a 40% CONVERSATION rate. That's just crazy!
So thanks 🙂
Tommy Carreras
Group Director
For us [a PastorsLine text-enabled church landline] has been huge for people to be able to text the number they already knew for our church. It means they don’t have to remember two different numbers when they are looking to try and get in touch with us. Most people don’t even realize its mostly an automated process.
Tyler Boles
Connections Pastor, The Exchange
““...the guest connection card...We had a great response -- people whose names and contact info we might not have captured otherwise. Our autoresponder directs them to our Welcome Center...where we have a gift...with their name on it."
Kristen Waddle
Church Communications
Sending and receiving texts from our landline number is the #1 feature that ensures visitors and members can engage with us on the most relevant means of communication there is right now. Having one number to advertise, simplifies all graphics, ads, announcements, etc. for us, as well as for those we're trying to reach. I use PastorsLine EVERY DAY. It's changing the way we engage with our members - it's both easier and more effective.
Tara Freeman
By using the same phone number for texting and calling you get people to remember your phone number. When it comes the time that are ready to reach out to us they know the phone number.
Abraham Schwartz
It’s honestly the best feature that we have utilized. Being able to give one phone number for voice and text simplified our process.
J.W. Dunbar
Pastor Gateway Church, Ashland, KY
The personal and almost immediate assistance at [PastorsLine] is so great! We feel valued and important! We love that it is church-based!!! … Jason and the team at [PastorsLine] are always ready to help, make things better, and they also welcome feedback.
Richie Halversen
Pastor @ College Drive Church
I belong to a Church Communications group on Facebook, and you were highly recommended. We signed up with you over others because we are a multi-generational church and you have an ability to reach people on landlines.
Daniel Chambers
At first, the landline feature seemed like it would overload the church secretary since everyone would have the church phone number saved in their phones. This has not happened! People are simply interacting with our events better than ever before! We love the landline feature.
Sterling Willborn
Associate Pastor, Journey Church
“[PastorsLine is] a huge answer to something we’ve been looking for. I was able to send a template with a field merge by scheduling it... ”
Dr. Matthew Robinson
Pastor
We hired [PastorsLine] to assist us in a new “Small Group” initiative we were launching at our church. The tools they provided us with helped us monitor and take action on hundreds of responses. Our workflow was cut in half and our ability to track, monitor and follow through with the data gathered more than doubled.
Chris Elliott
Associate Pastor, New Believers
When we finished our evangelistic event in Houston, 70% of those who were baptized, communicated with me through PastorsLine...it had a big influence.
Wyatt Allen
Evangelist, End Time Hope
"Baptism Worship Service Reminders - bulk texting—we were blown away by the number of people who showed up."
Cara Saliby
Dir. of Admin.
The text message bible study invites are working great. We saw a huge increase from 5-6 to 10-12 and the numbers stayed consistent.
Zeke Vas
Pastor
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