Communications
What to say in the bulletin, the inbox, the text message, and the feed.
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Software and tools
Church email platforms priced at 300, 800, and 2,000 contacts
Prices read 29 July 2026 for Mailchimp, Flocknote, MailerLite, Brevo, beehiiv, Ghost, Tithe.ly and Planning Center, plus SPF and DMARC looked up on 209 real church domains.
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Software and tools
Church texting services priced at 120, 300, 900, and 3,000 people
Prices checked 29 July 2026 for Clearstream, Text In Church, EZ Texting, SimpleTexting, Flocknote, Twilio and Tithe.ly, worked out at four congregation sizes, plus the 10DLC registration.
Church social media policy: the full text, the photo rules, and who holds the login
A complete policy a board can adopt, a decision tree for whether you may post a photo, the minor consent statutes quoted, the offboarding rule, and the procedure for 11pm on a Saturday.
The church social media checklist: 71 minutes a week and four checks before you post
The weekly, monthly, and quarterly lists with a minute budget on every item, plus the four checks that catch a minor's face, a wrong service time, an unattributed image, and a dead link.
A twelve-month church social media calendar, built on the church year
The actual grid for Advent 2026 through Advent 2027: computed feast dates, lead times, an approval matrix, verified scheduler pricing, and the whole calendar as CSV and ICS.
Seven words end it: the consent, quiet hours, and opt-out rules for church texts
The consent standard a church has to meet, the nonprofit carve-out at 47 CFR 64.1200(a)(2), the seven words that revoke consent, the ten business day clock, and what never goes by text.
Register the brand before you send: the 10DLC rule that silently blocks church texts
Why church texts get filtered before anyone reads them, what A2P 10DLC registration requires, the TCPA consent rule and the nonprofit carve-out, quiet hours, and the five-field consent record.
A church newsletter needs six parts, one editor, and one deadline
The six-part monthly structure, two sample openings, the send-timing rule, and the two sets of email rules a church has to obey: CAN-SPAM and Gmail's sender requirements.
Cap the announcements at five, put them after the sermon, read from paper
A four-part sentence formula, sixteen examples across six categories, why five is the cap in minutes rather than in taste, the IRS line one announcement can cross, and where the overflow goes.
Church social media posts that work on Facebook, where 71 percent of US adults still are
Six post patterns written out to copy, the Pew platform numbers that decide which account gets them, what a CCLI license does not cover when you post a worship clip, and the photo rule for children.
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Other shelves in the library
- Sermons Series ideas, single-text prompts, and the five study steps that come before an outline.
- Worship Two complete orders of service, four weeks of Advent readings, and the dates of the Christian year.
- Bulletins A seven-part page order, three formats, an inside-spread checklist, and a cut list for tight weeks.
- Calendars A weekly rhythm, a sixty-minute monthly planning session, and the seasons those plans sit inside.
- Groups Reading plans for John, Ephesians, the Psalms, and Genesis 1-11, with a six-step way to lead any of them.
- Youth Games with rules, supplies, and running time, plus the guardrails that protect students.
- Kids Five-day VBS themes with one doctrine per day, safety rules, and follow-up for visiting families.
- Church growth Attendance, assimilation, and giving handled without church-growth-movement framing.
- Software Church management systems, giving platforms, and website tools, reviewed with the flaws named.