The goal of most religious organizations is to provide spiritual and family guidance to their members. In support of this goal, these organizations are sustained by contributions from their members. Religious organizations can now look to new technologies to help them achieve both goals. One of these technologies is audio conferencing. Here are five new apps using audio conferencing that can provide spiritual and family guidance to organization members, as well as increase new contributions to their coffers.
Administrative calls. Religious organizations are comprised of a formal hierarchical-level structure within the denomination, starting from the local church or parish, continuing to the state, regional, or diocesan level, and then to the national headquarters, and finally to the world headquarters or the Vatican. as in the Roman Catholic religion. Each religious denomination has constant communication needs up and down in their respective hierarchies. Audio conferencing can be used to provide instant meetings without traveling, saving time and money.
Bookmark a sermon. One of the most popular applications for audio conferencing is the Dial A Sermon application. Local churches and parishes would like their sermons to be heard by as many members and guests as possible. At any given time, there are multiple members who are homebound, sick, or out of town and unable to attend church. Consequently, these members cannot hear the sermon. With voice conferencing, the pulpit microphone can be connected to a telephone line and the conference bridge can be dialed, allowing the pastor to deliver the sermon on the bridge, in addition to the members, who are present in the church. . Now homebound and out-of-town members can call the bridge using their cell or home phone and listen to the entire worship service. Each sermon or worship service can be recorded and stored for later replay by members who were unable to hear the live service.
Prayer line. Another popular conference app for religious organizations is Prayer Line. With this app, a scheduled date and time (usually in the evening) for the prayer service is posted using the conference bridge. The Prayer Line schedule is posted in all written and online church publications. A phone number with an access code is posted with instructions for members to dial a specific date and time to pray along with a pastor or priest for each occasion. The pastor or priest led the participating members in the prayer session, which usually lasts one hour.
Fundraising Appeals. The teleconference can also be used to collect contributions from members. Whether a church is raising money for a family member of a parishioner, who is in crisis, missionary work abroad, or a capital campaign for the addition of a building, conference calls can be used to get the appeal out. to many members at once. A conference service provider operator can be used to conduct a question and answer session with callers to answer all of their questions and concerns. The appeal call can also be recorded and played back later by members who missed the original call.
Affinity programs. Affinity programs can be developed to promote the use of conference calling services throughout the religious organization in order to reduce conference costs by increasing the volume of minutes. With conference services, the more you use, the less expensive your costs will be. So, when negotiating your prices with a conferencing service provider, ask about affinity programs and what discounts are available through increased volume.
There you have it, the five conference apps that faith-based organizations can use to get the message out to members and raise additional funds for special projects.
