Category: Ministries OR Departments
Bulk Text Messaging for Churches: Best Practices
By Jason Alexis | January 24, 2019
To the utter surprise of many of us, mass texting is the future of church marketing. Yes! Not email marketing, not phone marketing, and definitely not cold calls. Sounds intimidating? Well, let’s have a look at the reason behind this. Out of all the modes of messaging, text messages have an incomparable opening rate—98% as…
Interview: How Michelle Dyke of Real Life Church is saving time with PastorsLine multi user functionality
By Anne Heath | November 27, 2018
It was my pleasure to speak with Michelle Dyke of Real Life Christian Church in Orlando, Florida. Michelle (a former Actuary) shared that once, she considered herself a Christian who “believed in God but didn’t believe in going to church”. However, a life-changing life event made her feel lost, and she began looking for a…
How to make the most of SMS for VBS
By Jason Alexis | June 3, 2018
Many of you are hard at work on the fast-approaching VBS season. Whether a fully paid, subsidized or free series of events, VBS is a very big deal. In her article on the website, Facts and Trends, Sara Shelton informed: “Churches that used LifeWay VBS material reported more than 2.5 million people enrolled in VBS”.…
SMS text messaging, short and long codes explored
By Jason Alexis | February 14, 2018
There’s a lot of discussion about which of the two opt-in choices is better—shortcodes or longcodes. Just in case you are new to all this… Members and visitors must opt-in to be able to receive text messages sent by service providers. To do this, most service providers use what are called ‘shortcodes’ or ‘longcodes’. Shortcodes,…
Automated Messages Workflows
By Jason Alexis | February 5, 2018
Easter is fast coming up and we’re sure you’ve already started planning/organizing for this important church celebration. Easter is one of the most attended weekends for Christian churches—many being people who haven’t been in church for a while. We know the unchurched or used-to-be-churched are most receptive around Easter (and Christmas). So you invest money…
Church Community Builder Process Queues
By Anne Heath | January 8, 2018
Church Community Builder Process Queues Do you know you can decrease your admin time, improve your guest follow up and member assimilation using the PL CCB integration with your process queues? New? Free Signup! How does it work? Hi Everyone… Anne here. Do you know you can decrease your admin time, improve your guest follow up…
Same Price! More Credits!
By Jason Alexis | December 28, 2017
More Credits! Same Price! We have increased the number of credits in our plans but NOT the price! FREE Credits FREE Resources Hi Everyone… Anne here. We have an exciting announcement and a gift for you too! We have increased the number of credits in our plans but NOT the cost to you. Just in time…
Interview: How Mission Church 10x its ‘personal factor’
By Jason Alexis | October 16, 2017
In this spontaneous, email-based interview, we looked at how Mission Church is using digital tools to connect with people in an authentic way. Mission Church in Ventura, CA offers practical Bible teaching and authentic worship in a creative, welcoming environment. Tommy Carreras is their group director. He also coordinates the new guest connection process. Tommy’s…
The anatomy of a guest follow-up text
By Jason Alexis | August 6, 2017
The Anatomy of a Guest Follow-up Text Your weekend services are too important to let any new guests fall through the cracks.Let us help you reach more guests by adding our Digital Connect Texts to your service this weekend. Having previously discussed the anatomy of a guest follow-up process, it was concluded that adding text,…
Integration: Church Community Builder
By Team PastorsLine | April 25, 2017
Improve your church communications (and reduce your workload) by integrating your Church Community Builder and PastorsLine accounts. Integrating PastorsLine and CCB gives your church improved communication and better relationships with your church members and first-time guests. Integration also reduces your workload. Sync your CCB data into PastorsLine You have already created contacts and groups onCCB.…