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How Does Your Church Communicate?
Since the beginning of the year our church has moved to doing a monthly full color newsletter instead of the weekly black and white one we used to use. This has proved to be effective however we still have many members who would like to receive something in the mail weekly.
Last year we began sending out E-news, a weekly email with church information. In august we moved it from an email list to a blog and now members can subscribe via email or by rss feed.
All this to say we are still searching for the best way to communicate with our members. Part of our congregation is very much a paper generation wanting newsletters, and bullitens, part of them are a computer generation with websites and emails and a growing part are a cell phone/Pda generation using things like text messages and twitter.
To find out we did a small survey to try to see what people used the most so far. We sent this out by email so the results so far only reflect the answers of those who use the computer and receive email or visit the website. The question was “How would you like the church to communicate with you?” They could check as many as applied to them.
84% – Email
49%- Monthly Newsletter
29%- Website
28%- Mailed Weekly News
21%- Facebook Group
18%- Church Bulliten
13%- Text Message
12%- RSS Feed
7%- Twitter
My question is how does your church communicate? What means do you use to get information to your members? What do you use to get information to your visitors?
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Sadly, most of our communication depends on bulletin inserts and live announcements during the church service. We’ll be moving away from this, though, once we get a decent church website up and running.
We have just transitioned to e-bulletins and twitter as sources of communication. We use MailChimp (http://tinyurl.com/5w27yk) for our sending which allows us to style our bulletins just like the rest of the printed material.
So far the e-bulletin has been a huge success.
http://www.sscommunitychurch.com/media/ebulletin/