Church communications platform
One hub for every channel, ministry, and team.
A church communications platform is the hub where your channels, tools, and people meet in one plan. Communicate is that hub for church teams: it connects the plan, while you keep sending through the email, texting, and social tools you already use.
- Keep your current tools
- Unlimited viewers
- Built for churches
Definition
What is a church communications platform?
A church communications platform is the central place a church uses to coordinate communication across every channel and ministry. Instead of replacing each tool, it connects them through one shared plan, so the weekly email, the Instagram post, the text reminder, and the Sunday slide for the same event are prepared together.
Some platforms try to do the sending for you. Communicate takes a different approach: it’s a church communications workspace that holds the plan, the content, and the responsibilities, and leaves sending to the tools your church already trusts.
The hub
What does a church communications platform connect?
Three things that usually live apart: the channels you publish on, the tools you send with, and the people who need to know the plan.
A church communications platform connects channels (email, social, texts, slides, bulletin), tools (your email service, texting tool, and design apps), and teams (comms staff, pastors, ministry leaders, and campuses).
Your channels
Email, Facebook, Instagram, texts, Sunday slides, the bulletin, the website. In Communicate, each channel you add becomes a row on one calendar, so you see them side by side.
Your tools
Keep your email service, texting tool, and design apps. Each communication in Communicate stores its copy, graphics, and links, so whoever sends it has everything in one place.
Your teams
Comms staff plan and edit. Pastors and ministry leaders join as unlimited viewers. On Plus, leaders submit promotion requests and campuses plan alongside the church-wide calendar.
Works alongside
Why should a platform work alongside your tools instead of replacing them?
Because the hard part of church communications usually isn’t sending. It’s agreeing on what to send, when, and who’s getting it ready.
A planning-first church communications platform lets churches keep their existing email, texting, and social tools, so nobody has to migrate contact lists or learn a new sender to get a clearer plan.
No list migration. Your contacts stay in the tools that already hold them.
No new sender to learn. Volunteers keep sending the way they do today.
One plan above everything. The calendar shows every channel’s messages together.
Content ready to send. Copy, graphics, and links stay with each message.
Inside Communicate
How does Communicate work as a church communications platform?
Communicate centers on a shared communications calendar, with campaigns, approvals, requests, assignments, notifications, and multi-campus planning connected to it.
A calendar at the center
Week and day views show every channel together. Filter by campaign, channel, or ministry, and use the timeline to see campaigns across the season. About the calendar.
Campaigns that span channels
One campaign holds the details, graphics, and copy for an event, plus every message across email, social, and Sunday. Send it for approval when a pastor needs to sign off.
Requests from every ministry (Plus)
Ministry leaders sign in and submit promotion requests through your forms. Your team reviews them in one inbox and can turn an approved request into a draft campaign.
People and notifications
On Plus, assign work with due dates and keep comments and @mentions with it. Notifications arrive in the app and, if you choose, by email.
Keep your tools. Connect the plan.
Put every channel on one calendar this week.
Add the channels you already use, build one campaign, and invite your pastor to view it. Free for 14 days.
FAQ
Questions about church communications platforms
What is a church communications platform?
A church communications platform is the central place a church uses to coordinate communication across every channel and ministry, connecting channels, tools, and people through one shared plan.
Do I have to stop using my email or texting tool?
No. Communicate doesn’t send emails or texts or publish posts. Each communication stores its copy, graphics, and links, and you send it through the tools you already use.
What’s the difference between a platform and a workspace?
The terms overlap. “Platform” describes the hub role: connecting channels, tools, and teams. “Workspace” describes where the work happens day to day. Communicate is a church communications workspace that serves as that hub.
Does Communicate work for multi-campus churches?
Yes, on the Plus plan. Plan church-wide campaigns and local campus schedules together, and switch between an organization-wide view and individual campuses.
One hub for your church’s communications.
Keep the tools you have. Give the plan one home.
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