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Best Practices · March 3rd, 2026

10 Tools to Help You Connect with Your Church This Easter

Send digital connect cards, schedule follow-up texts, generate QR codes, & more — all included with your Clearstream plan!

Abbey

Marketing

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Best Practices · November 6th, 2025

How to use NFC tags in your church

NFC tags can help you connect with visitors, streamline communications, and engage your church — all with just a tap.

Abbey

Marketing

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Best Practices · September 8th, 2025

Understanding the new text message filtering in iOS 26

iOS 26 releases on September 15 and includes optional text message filtering. Follow a few tips to ensure your deliverability isn't affected.

Trevor

CTO / Co-founder

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Best Practices · March 14th, 2023

Rock Texting - How-to & Best Practices

How to setup texting within Rock, stay carrier compliant, and use best practices for higher engagement and deliverability.

Michael

COO / Co-founder

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Best Practices · December 22nd, 2022

Back to Basics: How a Megachurch Uses Texting to Keep a Small-Church Feel

We sat down for a Q&A with Aaron Hamby, former Worship Director at Saddleback Anaheim, to get an inside perspective on how Saddleback handled/continues to handle their communication at the megachurch level.

Emily

Customer Success Manager

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Best Practices · May 26th, 2022

Texting During VBS 2023

Texting software, like Clearstream, helps simplify VBS communication by giving you the best response rates when collecting registrations, recruiting volunteers, and sending parent announcements.

Emily

Customer Success Manager

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Best Practices · April 13th, 2022

Tips for Texting Students

Texting is the number one medium for developing deep, intentional relationships with teens. Why? They're always on their phones, and we don't see this trend faltering in the slightest. Here are a few tips to get your student texting strategy started.

Emily

Customer Success Manager

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Best Practices · March 30th, 2022

Texting at Easter

This blog post will help you utilize the tools you already have with Clearstream for your Easter services: video texting, email, polls, and first-time guest workflows.

Lizzie

Customer Success

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Best Practices · April 7th, 2020

How to Use Texting During Online Services

Texting is a practical way to connect with your community when doing church online. In this post, we're going to look at some ways to follow-up with guests, send out online service reminders, receive salvation decisions, and encourage prayer - all through texting.

Michael

COO / Co-founder

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Best Practices · November 5th, 2019

Choosing the Right Texting Service for Your Church

In order to help you choose the best texting service for your church, we created this post to highlight the key features and functionalities crucial to churches interested in communicating with their volunteers, members, staff, and first-time guests via text message.

Michael

COO / Co-founder

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