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Text Evangelism Part 1
By Jason Alexis | April 22, 2018
Everything You Need to Know About Text Evangelism (Part 1) Imagine using text to bring your church members together, stay in touch with visitors, and initiating Bible study. Jason Alexis, digital disciple, church communication director, and co-founder of Pastor’s Line tells his experience with text evangelism and how it can impact your ministry. New? Free…
Digital Connect Texts
By Anne Heath | April 18, 2018
Digital Connect Texts 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. New? Free Signup! How does it work? New guests and visitors walk through your doors each weekend. We know…
March 2018 Features, Fixes and Forecast
By Anne Heath | March 14, 2018
Since we last reported, we’ve been full steam ahead on your wishlist items and tweaking things to make PastorsLine more intuitive and even more powerful. One of the areas we have been busy attending to is the issue of multiple numbers. More than one telephone number is great but it can get confusing. We have…
List Of Characters Replaced By Copilot’s Smart Encoding
By Anne Heath | February 22, 2018
The following table is a list of characters that are replaced by Copilot’s Smart Encoding. See the original issue here. Unicode Character Glyph Description Transliterated Character U+00AB « left-pointing double angle quotation mark ” U+00BB » right-pointing double angle quotation mark ” U+201C “ left double quotation mark ” U+201D ” right double quotation mark “…
2018 Digital Communications (+ 4 Steps to Engage)
By Jason Alexis | February 18, 2018
At the start of the year, we often look at where churches are heading. What’s very clear is that the knowledge bases of most churches are now only a few months (versus years) behind what the marketing business world does to digitally communicate their message. This doesn’t indicate where churches are but where the knowledge…
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…
Integration: Planning Center Online
By Anne Heath | January 4, 2018
Planning Center Integration PastorsLine now integrates with The Planning Center People App! 2-way Integration released (new)! Join FREE Beta How does it work? Hi Everyone… Anne here. We are so excited to share with you our newest integration. PastorsLine now integrates with The Planning Center People (PCP) App! This integration means all of your PCP App contacts…
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…