Keywords
Keywords allow your audience to quickly communicate their interests to you.
Option 1: Invite people to text your unique, local, 10-digit long code number, e.g. (987)-654-3210, with a keyword that you designate. No need to get creative as you can choose from virtually unlimited keywords.
Option 2: In special cases, ask people to text to the PastorsLine dedicated, 5-digit, short code number, e.g. “Text WELCOME to 77411”. Communication is quicker, so suits larger audiences.
In either case, you can use different keywords to identify people responding to different campaigns and offers.
"For only a little more than what we were currently paying for SMS service, we received a ton of other features like voice messaging, campaigns, and unlimited keywords [from PastorsLine]."
Benjamin Curfman
Family Pastor, Barberville Baptist Church
What are keywords?
Keywords are powerful because they can trigger any campaign or automation within PastorsLine. Even better, your users can use these keywords independently from their mobile phones, whether you are there or not.
PastorsLine offers two types of keywords: long code keywords and short code keywords. Read more about them here.
Trigger The Process, So You Don’t Have To.
Capture Data
Collect information from members or visitors who express an interest in your church or ministry directly from their phones. You can use a series of automated texts (autoresponder) or give a link to an online form.
Our Smart Syncing feature minimizes duplicates in your external apps.
Click to learn more about Smart Syncing.
Categorize Contacts
By setting up different keywords for the same campaign, you can group responders. For example, for menu-planning purposes, the keywords “AllFood”, “Veggie”, “Vegan”, “GlutenFree”, “NonDairy”, “AnotherNeed” will group young people eating during your VBS event.
Disseminate Information
You can send one-time announcements about
upcoming events. You can also send information over a period of time such as ‘homework’ links for a Bible study series.
Trigger Campaigns and Automations
PastorsLine has many keyword-triggered features which help keep your contacts engaged. Campaigns such as polls to provide feedback on how you’re doing and what people need for the future. Automations such as live questions during an evangelical event.
Why Is It Needed?
Ministry has always been about building relationships. Jesus made it his business to go where the people were. Today, the people are on their phones…texting.
Keywords are the simplest way to connect with people via their most accessible point of contact...their phone numbers.
Keywords are scalable: 10s to 100s to 1000s of people can keyword-in simultaneously.
And, you don’t have to wrack your brain thinking of creative keywords. Since you are using a local number, you have a ‘dictionary-full amount’ of keywords on offer (save the roughly 20 set aside for admin purposes).
Plus, since you can use multiple keywords, you can take into account spelling errors. For example, “PRAY” and “PREY” for prayer requests.
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How it works
Today, people like it short and sweet. Keywords let your people speak volumes with just a few letters. And keywords let your people connect with your church, any time, anywhere.
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Pastor
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
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
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.
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Pastors, RGF Church
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Pastor, Earlimart Apostolic Church
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.
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Pastor @ College Drive Church
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Director of Admin
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Church Communications
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Lead Pastor
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Central Admin, Christian Cultural Center
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Young Adult Pastor
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Gary Ginn
Pastor, Redeemer Church
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Zeke Vas
Pastor
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New Life Fellowship Church, Elmhurst, NY
Thus far it’s worked perfectly!! When we wanna send out a text message we use the church office #.
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Josiah Elias
Young Adults Pastor, Faith Chapel
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Senior Pastor
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Associate Pastor, New Believers
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