Churches & Texting

For some, the idea of cell phones and church conjures up memories of annoying ring tones in sentimental prayers. While cell phones can be annoying in the context of a worship service, wireless technology also presents a wonderful advantage for communication. Utilizing ShortShout group text messaging your church can stay well informed and connected. Why not use the technology available today for the good of the body?

Small budgets is a reality that almost every church has to struggle with. How do you do big ministry with little money? With God it is possible. And we like to think that ShortShout makes it easier. We have some of the lowest per-message rates around. And there are no contracts, monthly fees or start-up fees. You pay for the messages as you need them and that is it. Starting at 10¢ per message, ShortShout makes text messaging possible for every church budget.

How Churches Can Use Texting

How can ShortShout's text messaging service help your church?

Staff Meeting Reminders/Updates: Send automated meeting reminders or last minute changes to your staff. Everyone stays informed and no one will miss a meeting again.

Volunteer Responsibility Reminders: Managing volunteers can be an intensive task. Using ShortShout text messages, you save valuable time and all of your volunteers will be well informed.

Cancelations: Canceling and postponing events is something every church must do occasionally. The reasons may be entirely diverse and different—there are not many snow days in Southern California—but no matter the reason ShortShout text messaging makes it a breeze to let everyone know at once.

Youth Groups: The youth of American culture have more technology at their disposal than anyone could have dreamed of. And with all this powerful technology, the youth of today still require three important things: Reminders, reminders and reminders. ShortShout takes the pain out of this, alerting all of the youth with the very technology they cherish most: their cell phones.

Small Groups: Small groups are an important part of the community and ministry of many churches. With ShortShout text messaging, your church's small groups can stay connected. You can send meeting reminders, updates on events, cancelation alerts and even prayer requests. Give your community every advantage.

Prayer Requests: With ShortShout prayer requests can be distributed instantly. Everyone can be alerted to a new prayer request in a matter of seconds—no email checking, endless phone dialing or broken prayer chains. One message to everyone and you will be done.

Lockdown Procedures: Unfortunately, we live in a world where lockdowns are a necessary part of our emergancy procedures. Text messaging would be a smart addition to any church's lockdown procedure. While text messages are an instantaneous messaging medium and perfect for messaging your whole staff and volunteer base, it should be considered a back-up—signal strength, cell networks and SMS deliveries can be intermittent. Add text messaging to your church's lockdown procedure and you will have an extra avenue of communication to ensure everything goes smoothly.

Daily Bible Verse: You can also help keep your congregation in the Word with text messaging. Send a daily Bible verse straight to the cell phones of your church. You can give everyone a bit of inspiration during their daily grind.