Bulk Texting for Churches: It’s ok to wait until your church is ready

By Jason Alexis | August 24, 2021

Sometimes, we are just not ready to get on board. Everyone tells us that we should. We might even agree. And yet, there is that feeling in our gut that says: “Not at the moment.” We want you to honor that gut feeling. Doing things when we are truly ready means we will do them…

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

By Jason Alexis | June 3, 2020

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 goes much deeper and way…

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

By Jason Alexis | June 1, 2020

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 to find out more about…

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…