Church text
messaging
Not everyone is on social media. Loudhailer sends branded circuit emails, SMS messages and WhatsApp messages from the same place as your website news.
For the people who are not on Facebook
Every church has members who will never see a social media post. Church text messaging, a proper email and a WhatsApp message reach them where they already are. Loudhailer sends all three from the same place you use for your website news, so the people who are not online in the usual sense still hear about the change of service time, the special collection or the funeral arrangements.
In one circuit it might be the retired local preacher who keeps his mobile in the kitchen drawer for emergencies. In another it is the young family who read every WhatsApp message and no emails at all. Most congregations have both, and a good many in between. Reaching all of them used to mean three separate jobs and a list by the phone.
Church SMS, email and WhatsApp in one place
Loudhailer began as a way to share news on Facebook, X and Instagram, but it goes further than social networks. From the same tool you can send branded circuit emails, SMS messages and WhatsApp messages, so one message, written once, reaches people wherever they are. A church SMS suits something short and urgent: the boiler has failed and the evening service has moved to the hall. Email suits the fuller notice, with a photograph and a link back to your website.
You manage it all from the website control panel or the Chrestos app, so a message can go out from wherever you happen to be. Our team in Chester are on the end of the phone if you would like a hand setting it up.
A church email newsletter that looks like yours
Emails sent through Loudhailer carry your circuit’s branding, so a church email newsletter arrives looking like it came from you rather than from a stranger. Email newsletters are part of Chrestos Premium, alongside Loudhailer, the circuit database and the rest of the Chrestos Cloud. It keeps the congregation in touch with a proper newsletter, sent from the same place as everything else.
WhatsApp for churches, and everything else
Many congregations already live on WhatsApp. Sending your news there from Loudhailer means it sits alongside the family photographs and the choir’s arrangements, which is where people will actually see it. A church WhatsApp message also suits the sort of news that people like to pass on to a neighbour who missed it, because forwarding it takes one tap.
The same news can still go to your social networks, where AI for churches quietly reshapes it to suit each one.
If you have Digital Signage, Loudhailer can even turn the message into slides for the screen in your foyer. There is more about the whole tool on our page about church social media management.
Reaching everyone
One message, written once, sent the way each person prefers to hear it.
SMS
A change of venue, a cancelled meeting or a reminder about Sunday: a text message is short, plain and hard to miss on any phone.
Branded email
Emails carry your circuit’s branding, with room for a photograph and a link back to the full story on your Chrestos website.
Send your news by WhatsApp, where plenty of your congregation already chat, so it sits beside the family photographs and gets seen.
One message,
everyone reached
Write your news once and choose how it travels: to Facebook, X and Instagram for those who follow you there, and by email, text or WhatsApp for those who do not. Nobody has to keep a separate list of who prefers what in a notebook by the phone.
It is the same news, told to everyone, in the way they are most likely to notice it.
Send it from
the back pew
Loudhailer works in the website control panel and in the Chrestos app on iPhone and Android. If the heating fails on a Sunday morning, a message about the move to the hall can go out from your phone before the first car pulls in.
And if you get stuck, our team in Chester are only a phone call away.
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Tell us how your church keeps in touch with members today and we will show you the emails, texts and WhatsApp messages, with no obligation.
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