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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Collecting All Youth Groups And Entire Congregations Thru SMS Messaging

By Leon Knightstep


Most Churches nowadays are looking forward to gain the young church goers to their group. The Churches nowadays have seen a convenient way of relaying their messages to their congregation via SMS text messaging.Some churches nowadays have been using the modern way of communicating to their members like through emails and SMS text messaging but there are still a number of churches that did not adopt this modern way of getting through their members.

Primarily, the financial factor becames the hindrance. It is hard for smaller congragations to have a video projector and the necessary software because these things are quite exprensive. Churches nowadays, may it be a big or a small church, are now capable of buying multimedia devices that are necessary to enrich worship and ministry for these products of technology have considerably dropped their prices as latest products of the same kind enters the market.

Most of us receive quite a number of marketing messages from mobile marketing companies, so wouldn't it be nice if we also receive from the churches? Through text message, presence during Sunday masses can be increased and at the same time, it could survey the entire congregation of what they want in the Church to make it more better.

The elder generation who are members of the organization might think that SMS text messaging is intrusive and very high tech. Even the older members of the congregation will soon learn that SMS text messages will impact the face of the church experience forever. Endless possibilities are being offered by SMS text messaging by auto sending daily devotionals, to activity updates, to ad hoc giveaways in order to keep people connected in the Church.

Collecting and soliciting money or donations are easily done through text messaging and this is one of the functions that it does for the church. The messages sent though a text brigade would even help out on the success of a charitable activity conducted by a church by being a way of a note wherein the congregation will be constantly reminded of the things that they need to bring like clothing or toys. Parishioner will have more inclination to join in the churches' activities since the SMS text messages that they receive comes as a a personal message.

The young generation of church goers are usually the biggest group that will get more associated with the churches' activities. As the church continues the use of SMS text messaging to connect to their congregation, young church goers will feel in general that they are really part of this major group and that their participation of major importance. The older church members will have more chance to communicate with the youth and get ahead the barriers of time through sending them text messages since most youth nowadays have texting as a natural part of their lives.




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