How fast do your people receive your emergency cancellations and time-sensitive announcements? Too late to make a difference? For example: Your people show up to an event because they did not know it was cancelled. Or they arrive at 9 am to something that was rescheduled to 11 am - again, because they didn’t know. ...
How fast do your people receive your emergency cancellations and time-sensitive announcements? Too late to make a difference? For example: Your people show up to an event because they did...
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While we were in lockdown and isolation, many ministries onboarded texting software for churches to help them stay in touch with their people. Now that the restrictions are more-or-less lifted and life is settling into the new normal, people are back in church. Why continue to text and keep a digital footprint? Reason #1: People worship on their phones anyway. Statistics from several years ago showed that: 53% of people polled used their smartphones to access the Bible. 54% of Christian millennials explored faith and spirituality via online videos....
PastorsLine (PL) is a revolutionary software. By revolutionary, we mean that we have changed the way churches reach out to their members forever. Many of our customers testify to the...
Spoiler alert: This blog is going to be a bit emotional. As I am writing this, I have goosebumps and that incredible “alignment with the Lord” feeling. It is not often that we get such a powerful example of His work. And yet, why am I surprised? God is the original “out of the box” thinker, right? Let’s take Jesus for example. Time and time again, every step along the way, Christ challenged the conventional thinking of the times. Just to mention a few examples: He associated with the “wrong”...
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If your church is like RHI, your folks have a mix of mobile phones. How well does your texting software service both Apple and Android / Google platforms? Pastor Steven...
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How many data silos does your ministry maintain? In an interview with Anne, part of the PastorsLine Care Team, Toby Thomack (Youth and Worship Pastor at First Reformed Church in Oostburg, Wisconsin) shared how PastorsLine helped them achieve their primary goal: reducing 3 data silos to 1—and had some unexpected benefits as well. First, a little about Toby and First Reformed Church Toby has been part of First Reformed Church for about 10 years. Roughly 3 years ago, he took on more of the worship and planning side of things....
How “extreme” is your church hospitality? Before we get into what this is and how to achieve it, let’s chat a minute about hospitality itself. Why does hospitality matter? To...
Your church is probably ignoring texts from guests and members! How? From Landlines! We don’t think so. Surely, no one is texting our landlines. Are you absolutely sure? Here’s a fact: 150 million texts are sent to landlines every single day! And your landline is probably one of them! So, it’s not a question of whether people are texting your landlines or not, it’s a question of “Are you seeing those texts or ignoring them?” What does this mean for your church? It means if you cannot see these messages,...
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What if… Your organization started as one thing…and then changed to something completely different. When you began, you were using PastorsLine for your bulk texting needs. As your needs changed,...
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