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A Church Administrator’s Guide to Simplifying Christmas with Technology

As Christmas approaches, many churches transform into vibrant centers of celebration and activity. Churches are busy all year round, but not much compares to the few weeks before Christmas as you prepare to invite the community to exciting Christmas events. 

And, behind the scenes, church administrators face the challenging task of orchestrating these busy schedules, ensuring every detail falls into place, so holiday outreach succeeds. 

But the good news is, technology can be your ally in this busy time, offering solutions that streamline your tasks and reduce stress. In this blog post, you’ll discover how these tools can help you manage the holiday rush with ease, ensuring a successful and impactful outreach. 

Streamlining Communication

Because your church juggles so many activities this time of year—from outreach programs to Christmas services to volunteer coordination—streamlining communications is essential to keep congregants informed and engaged during this busy season.

To do this, take advantage of your church management software to automate and personalize Christmas email campaigns, saving you time and improving the effectiveness of your outreach.

Leverage your church management software to consolidate all contact information available from both congregants and community members, regardless of the ministry they are associated with. This allows you to organize and target your communications more effectively, such as reaching families with children or senior citizens, with messages tailored to their needs.

Automate a series of emails specifically to people who have attended one or two services during the year but haven’t plugged in anywhere. Your email sequence can introduce them to different holiday activities and your Christmas worship services. 

One benefit of automating these messages is that you can create them in advance and have them ready to go when the holiday season starts. This ensures your messages are timely and consistent, without the last-minute rush.

Enhancing Event Planning and Management 

If you’re asking people to come to your campus for holiday events, whether to your worship services, a concert, or a gift giveaway of some kind, event management can become complex. You don’t want to find a room or equipment double booked on the day of an important event. 

Again, the right church management software can help and you’ll be able to create and manage all your Christmas events in one place. Whenever you create an event, you can add the event details, including dates, times, locations, and descriptions—then with a touch of a button, you can make that event show up on your website so your community can find the event and register for it. The sign-up process is simple and allows you to collect the information you need to manage capacity and crowd size automatically. 

And despite the hustle and bustle of the season, you’ll be able to manage those events on the go so you can keep everything on track whether you’re sitting in your office or at your daughter’s school Christmas party.

Simplifying Giving and Donations

With all that’s going on during the holiday season, your church can’t afford to drop the ball on giving during this month. Besides your regular weekly giving, you may have several special offerings related to the holiday season. Coordinating all that—along with the special events, outreach activities, etc.—can be a handful.

Get the most out of your digital giving solution by considering the entire giver’s journey—from the moment they first give to when they become lifelong, proportional givers. You’ll have people at each stage of the journey giving during the Christmas season.

Here’s how your digital giving solution should help you at each important stage.

  • First-time giver: Give them opportunities to give wherever they are (text-to-give, website, mobile app, etc.). Send a personalized thank-you note after that first gift.
  • Occasional giver: Make it easy for them to give regularly through recurring giving.
  • Regular giver: Leverage analytic data about your donors through your giving solution to target your consistent givers with key messages about your end-of-year or seasonal missions giving campaign.

By leveraging technology to engage each of these kinds of givers, you can create a seamless giving experience even amid the Christmas busyness.

Maximizing Impact While Keeping Christmas Simple

Simplifying your Christmas efforts isn’t about lessening your impact. It’s about increasing impact without burning out administrative leaders who are responsible for managing all the busyness. 

Technology can help you streamline communication, enhance event management, and simplify giving so you have the best Christmas you can remember.

But don’t stop there. To truly maximize your Christmas efforts, check out our FREE guide, The Power of 12 Days: An Outreach Campaign to Share Christmas Hope. It’ll walk you through planning a 12-day outreach campaign in the days leading up to Christmas. It’s full of simple, creative outreach ideas that can mobilize your congregation for a Christmas to remember. Download it for free today.

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