Your congregation is a community. We understand that in your community your number one goal is for every member to feel welcome, comfortable, and happy. It is important to always be reaching out to your congregation to form relationships that last a lifetime.

Encourage your congregation to bring a friend to your next church service. Use a quick automated text to remind them so they don't forget. You could even collect the friends' numbers at your service or event and contact them with a live call shortly after to thank them for joining. By encouraging the formation of friendships you bless your congregation with a sense of family that they cannot get anywhere else.

Many churches have welcome lunches monthly, and some have mixer events as well to turn guests into friends and members. Prerecorded calls are the perfect way to invite, inform, and remind your contacts of these events to increase the number of people that join your congregation.

Telemeetings are an awesome way to facilitate newfound friendships. By allowing attendees to share their stories live on the call, other attendees can relate to, respond to, and connect with each other. Telemeetings allow you to experience the magic of people uniting from all over the world.

Every now and then things happen that we cannot control. And when disaster strikes it is imperative that we come together in the face of adversity. Whether it be a hurricane, earthquake, flood, wildfire, mass shooting, the casualty of a local hero, or anything in between, having a plan to come together in the event of such tragedies is paramount to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of your community.

We encourage every ministry and church to have strategies planned with their leaders so that they can effectively reach as many people as possible during emergencies. Send out prerecorded calls to inform members of breaking news, or to inform them of service cancellations or impromptu gatherings.

Have our highly trained communicators call your contacts to recruit volunteers to help the community or collect donations for those who cannot volunteer. Follow up with reminder texts after your volunteers commit, or if you have an online volunteer registration form you can use texting to send your contacts a link to that as well. Keep your congregation and community calm and collected in times of crisis and keep making the world a better place.

One of the biggest struggles that new or small churches and ministries face is getting people to attend. engage. and interact. Sometimes an open door doesn't do much without the invitation to make people aware of it. Of course, most people know that most churches are always open on Sundays, but what they aren't aware of is WHY they should be there.

Why not use a live call to personally invite newcomers from the surrounding neighborhoods to join your congregation's service or event and tell them why you want to see them there? Use precorded calls or text messages to follow up with informative reminders that include the time, your address, and reaffirm why they should join you. Give your contacts a call to action and invite them to become a member of your loving congregation.

Of course, it can be hard to get people to attend in person when life gets busy. That's okay. Why not invite people to a convenient telemeeting so that they can attend wherever they are? You can even provide them with a dial-in number that they can share with their friends so they can invite more attendees as well. You can also use that number to promote your telemeeting by texting it to contacts or posting it on social media. Invite thousands to attend and don't worry about overcrowding. We can dial up to 20,000 numbers at once so the potential is virtually limitless.

No organization or congregation is successful without proper leadership. As your congregation grows, your team of leaders should be growing with it. We all have been apart of some type of organization that had poor structure amongst their leadership. And we all remember what a nightmare that was. Don't be that congregation.

Keep your leadership group up to date and on the same page with your own calls and texts to remind your team of meetings, events, commitments, and announcements. You can even invite potential leaders to meetings or events to build your team and develop your youth.

Most churches have many leaders in many different roles. Is Karen in charge of the choir events? John in charge of the fundraising? Congregation Connection allows you to use your leaders' phone numbers on the caller ID so that your contacts can easily reach the best person regarding the subject of your outreach every single time.

Want to stand out in your area? Does your congregation know what it takes to successfully develop a leadership program that effectively grows the church? Share that knowledge with others by hosting an informative Telemeeting. Reach out to religious leaders and organizations all over to spread your knowledge, display your credibility, and inspire others to join your movement.

One of the greatest gifts that you as a church impart on your members and guests is the gift of guidance and development. Those gifts don't have to stop just because your service is over for the day.

Some clients have found that their congregation responds well to texts or calls that contain daily devotionals to keep members focused and enlightened. Even if it isn't daily, an inspirational and wise message every once in a while has never hurt anyone.

Our clients also almost always use Congregation Connection to make members aware of group outings, and development events by sending texts and making phone calls. Live communicators can even answer questions about the events, and if there is something we can't quite answer we can connect your contacts to the person with all of the answers. All we ask is that you tell us who that person is first!