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How to Create an ‘AND’ Strategy for your Weekly Paper Church Bulletin

By Jason Alexis

In this age of “e” everything, it often feels really progressive to scrap the weekly paper church bulletins and replace them with something digital and ‘modern.’ In fact, in our experience, most churches we work with are traditional, contemporary, or both, adapting some of the modern digital tools and strategies…

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The Amalgamation of Technology & Church Makes The Lives of Pastors Easy!

By Jason Alexis

Church Management Software (ChMS) is a self-explanatory term in itself. A ChMS is basically a system designed to help pastors manage, organize, and automate the daily operation of their church. If we want to elaborate on the purpose of this type of church automation software, we will find that it…

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The “Ultimate” Texting in Church Guide to long codes and shortcodes

By Jason Alexis

UPDATE (January 19, 2023)…Since this blog was written, the A2P 10DLC system number protocol came into being in the U.S. Briefly, this protocol is a way to register 10-digit long codes in order to keep spam to a minimum. This article has been updated to reflect that change. Read on…

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Reopening your church? Use this phased, 3-action “Back to Church” Communication Strategy

By Jason Alexis

In most states, churches are planning to reopen in some form. There are many good resources online which give advice and inspiration about the content of the first, physical get together in quite a while. Or you may have your own ideas about the direction you want to take. In…

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Discover the advantages of a one-number, communications HUB: your text-enabled church landline

By Jason Alexis

Picture a church in which: The pastor and several church staff have all shared their mobile phone numbers with their ministry. Church members get confused about which number to use when. Quite often, the pastor and staff receive texts/calls which they need to redirect to the relevant people. Since people…

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4 ideas for maxing ur txting characters 2 minimize ur msg costs

By Jason Alexis

At the moment (posted during the COVID-19 pandemic), your church might be texting more than usual…and that’s a good thing. Text messages can go a long way to keeping your flock feeling cared for and connected. Yet, more texts mean using more messaging credits. Though a system like PastorsLine allows…

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How to Start a Prayer Chain and Set it Up Digitally

By Jason Alexis

In Matthew 6, Jesus teaches the people how to pray. Those of us who pray this way, know firsthand the power of prayer, and since we know it, we want to use this power to help others in need. Why a prayer chain? Prayer Chains, as you already know, satisfy…

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How to End Pastoral Communication Frustration by Increasing your Church Signup Rate

By Jason Alexis

Perhaps… People are physically sitting in your church, listening to your sermon. Some of them are first-time guests. Some are church members. You have just told them about an upcoming Bible study series, and you would like people to sign up for it now, while they are still spiritually engaged…

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By all means text, but don’t forget the calls

By Jason Alexis

A lot of people are texting. That makes sense since texting is the fastest opened, most read, and most responded to form of communication today. In this article, we are going to show you why this was important for Merlin Cochran (our case study below). What does this mean for…

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Why and how your church should use Zoom to live stream your church services, especially in emergencies (Part II)

By Jason Alexis

In times of national or international crises, our faith is tested. At the same time, though, an opportunity presents itself where those who are attending church but wavering or those who are not regular attendees, all find themselves in a desperate need and search for God. We know many of…

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Phone Systems For Churches And Ministries

Join Bay Shore Community Church and Put the Latest Guest Follow-up Information into Practice

By Jason Alexis

Can we talk enough about the importance of guest follow-up? Before we look at a case study of how one church is handling this, let’s check out some very recent information about this topic. Recent information Yvonne Gentile is the co-author (with Debi Nixon) of the book, The Art of…

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Reduce Communication Cracks with Just One Church Number

By Jason Alexis

Some churches have a landline and then one or more mobile numbers. It is estimated that every day, 150 million texts are sent to non-mobile numbers. How many are reaching your church landline…and thus, being missed? Having several mobile numbers can be confusing for people—which to call when? In short,…

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