Well, maybe not 167 hours exactly (even the disciples had to catch some shut-eye every once in a while) but we think we make our point clear: there are plenty of opportunities to strengthen your bond with parishioners, and for them to grow closer to your church’s mission. The key that unlocks that bond is genuine communication. Finding meaningful ways to communicate with your parish can be a little tricky. You don’t want to push out information for the sake of sending it. Instead, favoring messages with clear calls to action and relevant information has routinely proven more successful.
7 church announcement ideas
To help get you closer to that communication sweet spot, we’ve come up with the seven kinds of announcements your church should be sending to achieve optimum engagement. And because we’re SimpleTexting, we’ve taken a spin on the script and created text-ready templates that can be used with our church texting service.
Church announcement templates
Browse our convenient church announcement templates that correspond to the seven message types we discussed above.
- The countdown announcement
- The post-mass follow-up announcement
- The giving request announcement
- The volunteers needed announcement
- Group announcement
- Prayer request announcement
- Celebration announcement Communicating with your parish in worthwhile, effective ways can be fun! And you’ll most likely be surprised to see how naturally it comes once you start getting in the groove. By adding in the power of text messaging to each church announcement, you’re sure to reach your target audience faster as well as being met with an impressive read and response rate. Don’t believe us? See for yourself what a few of our religious organization clients have already achieved through SMS:
How Life Chapel in New Jersey Uses Texting to Engage Their Youth Ministry 2 Sermons, 200 Subscribers: How One Texas Church Uses Texts to Encourage and Inspire How The Christian Connector Drove 5x More Conversions with Texting vs. Email To Win Souls: C3 San Diego’s Church Texting Success Story Eagle Brook Church Drives Hundreds of Decisions for Christ with Text Messaging
If you want to learn more about sending announcements to your church or religious organization, consider our 14-day free trial. We can get you connected with a support team member right away who can show you the ropes as well as what’s worked (and hasn’t worked) for churches, which reminds us, we have an excellent blog discussing church connection cards, if you’re interested!
