What tips or resources do you have for promoting Faithlife to our church community? We're currently an older congregation without a lot of tech users, but we stream services on Facebook each week with pretty good viewership outside our regular church. Since we're testing Proclaim for the next couple months, I'd like to promote its best features to those who may not be able to join us physically.
- I think I'm looking for ways to promote Faithlife in general, since in order to use the Proclaim advantages, users would have to create a Faithlife account. (I'm not looking for the tech advantages of Proclaim that you mentioned, as those are primarily internal and I'm looking for external.) And specifically, I'm wondering if there are prepared ads, bulletin inserts, info sheets, and the like. We're a small church (40-60 on a typical Sunday) with just me and a part-time assistant running things; anything we don't have to create ourselves is a big plus.
Matt Mattox (Faithlife) — Edited
Oh I thought I listed both Randy Ehle, but lacked in details. I apologize. The last paragraph I listed are key advantages from Faithlife. The digital bulletin is one of them which will auto create whenever you create a new presentation in Proclaim. You can then set it to auto publish. Another one is the Faithlife Calendar as you can sync your Google Calendar to your Faithlife Calendar that way you don't have to add your events in twice. Members can RSVP and gather info on the specified date as well. The best part is your church group where a lot of your communication can take place. Add post, bulletins, newsletters, events etc. You can create multiple Faithlife Groups, but the main one is the Church Group. Faithlife Bulletins: https://support.faithlife.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007376051-Faithlife-Bulletins Faithlife Newsletters: https://support.faithlife.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007373991-Faithlife-Newsletters You can also create reading plans, prayer request, group discussions, group chats. Have you created a church group yet? Looking forward to your reply! - I hope I gave some good leads for you to ask some follow up questions.- Matt Mattox (Faithlife), you did mention the electronic bulletins, etc., and we'll play with those a bit as we're learning. However, those target an electronically-connected crowd that wouldn't mind setting up yet one more "social media" account so they can participate electronically on Sunday mornings. That's not who we are at this point. Out of the 40-60 regulars in our church, I can count on one hand the number of regulars likely to pull out their phone during church, even just to follow the Bible text. Maybe the best way to figure out what I'm looking for is for me to call tomorrow and talk this through with someone. Thanks for your help.