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Church growth has been a topic on the lips of every pastors and church leaders. As a living organism, churches should naturally grow and continue to grow till new branches are created from it. But due to one reason or the others some churches remain stagnant or decreases in attendance over time which is a cause of concern to every God ordained leaders.
Several methods have been created to help in growing a church and in this piece I want to concentrate on how to use technology to grow your church. With nearly 90% of adults having access to mobile phones, this will be a great tool to reach your members and intending members. One of the best ways to reaches all your members at the same time is by using bulk SMS. Bulk SMS is cheap and has the tendency to reach as many with a mobile phone.
There are two types of bulk SMS.
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General Messages Bulk SMS: This is the type of bulk SMS that all your members receive the same message as SMS. It is good in passing out announcement to members but have little impact in showing that the church cares the member. For instance www.aratext.com provides a general SMS service
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Personalized Bulk SMS: This is a special type of bulk SMS in which each member received a message containing information that is personal to him/her. For instance a message can be sent to all your members and each member will receive the message having his/her name. They will think that the church or pastor personally send the message to them. For instance www.glorysms.com.ng provides a good personalized bulk SMS.

Other methods to grow your church through technology are:

Church Messaging Solution: This is messaging solution special design for the church and available at www.glorysms.com.ng . A church can subscribed their members contacts to receive different types of messages like Service Reminders, Inspirational & Prayer Alert, Good Morning Messages and many other messages.

Mobile App: A well designed mobile app can help the church members to connect together and thereby develop a community within the church.


Be sure to check out some of the services and show to your members that you care for them beyond Sunday services alone. Your church will grow in Jesus name.


Source: http://churchtechy..com/2017/07/using-technology-to-grow-your-church.html