Pastors, ministry leaders, and small group coordinators use Text Your List to send personal messages from their real number, and each member gets their own private text, not a group thread.
One group text to 60 members quickly turns into side conversations, missed replies, and confused "who is this?" responses. People disengage because the noise outweighs the signal.
Announcements sent by email reach a fraction of your congregation. Members miss service changes, event invitations, and urgent updates because the message never got opened.
Bulk SMS services send from a short code nobody recognizes. When a message arrives from a random number, it does not feel like it came from the person leading your congregation.
Every message goes out from your real number. Each member gets their own private text. Replies come back directly to you.
Members receive a text from the number they already have saved for you. It looks like a personal message because it is one.
No matter what phone your congregation uses, everyone receives the message. No app to download, no account to create on their end.
When a member replies, it comes to your phone as a private conversation. No one else in the congregation sees it. No reply-all chaos.
Import your roster from a spreadsheet, use {first_name} to greet each person by name, and send. The whole process takes minutes.
The moments in church life when people need to hear from you, not from a bulletin.
A time change, a weather cancellation, or a special service. Everyone hears it from you directly, the same day.
Share a request with your prayer team one person at a time, so each person can reply privately with a note or a question.
When a church family loses someone, members deserve to hear it personally, with the service details, not in a crowded group thread.
A short "glad you came Sunday" to families who shared their number on a visitor card, from the pastor who greeted them.
Weekly reminders to each group, with the leader's name and the host's address filled in from your list.
Nursery, greeters, meal trains and potlucks. Confirm who is coming and send a reminder the day before.
A group text about a death in the church family turns into forty "so sorry" replies landing on everyone's phone at once. People mute the thread, and the family's news gets lost in the noise.
With Text Your List, each member gets the message on its own, addressed to them. Anyone who wants to share a memory or ask how to help replies to you privately, and you can pass it on to the family.
"98% of text messages are opened, compared to fewer than 25% of emails."SMS industry research, Gartner
Yes. Every member receives a regular text, whatever phone they use, and nobody needs to download anything. On your side, you send from a Mac with Messages and an iPhone, or from a Windows PC with Microsoft Phone Link connected to an iPhone or Android phone.
No. Each person receives their own individual text from your number. There is no indication it went to anyone else, and replies come back only to you.
Yes, and that is how most ministry leaders use it. The message comes from whatever phone you send from. Members who already have your number saved will see your name.
Keep separate lists for youth, small group leaders, volunteers and the full congregation, and send to each on its own. Import from any spreadsheet, and update the lists as membership changes.
Yes. On a Windows PC, connect the phone you want to send from with Microsoft Phone Link, then install Text Your List. See how it works on our Windows page.
Text people who expect to hear from you: members, volunteers, and families who have shared their number with the church. Keep messages personal and occasional, and if someone asks you to stop, remove them from your list.
Free plan included. No credit card. Works on Mac and Windows.