Category: General

Surprise, we can text now! We’re officially COOL!

If you’re a church member and we have your mobile number in our Online Directory,

You’re signed up to receive text messages!

Here’s how it works:

• When our first message is sent to Members, you’ll also receive a welcome message to let you know that you’ve been opted-in to receive text messages from us.
• If you’d rather not receive future messages, simply reply STOP and you’ll be opted-out.
• You can opt-out of our text messages at any time.

And,

• You have our commitment that we WILL respect your text message box.
• Members will ONLY receive relevant, church related, time-sensitive communication from us.

You’ll only receive text messages if your mobile number is in our Online Church Directory. If we don’t have your mobile number but you’d like to receive text message reminders and alerts, please forward your mobile number to office@firstpresgreenbay.org and we’ll have it added to our text list. Not sure if it’s in there? Check the Online Church Directory. If it’s not there you can add it in yourself or simply email us and we’ll take care of it for you!

If you’d like to receive text messages but would rather not have your mobile number in the Directory, no problem! You can still receive our text messages even if you’d rather not publish your mobile number for other members to see. Just let us know that you’d like your mobile number private but that you’d still like to receive text messages and we’ll set you up.

More details about our text program:

What you need to know:

• The maximum text messages you’ll receive from us each month is 3-4 (if any)
• All messages will be church related, relevant and time sensitive in nature
• If there’s nothing to communicate during any given month, then you won’t hear from us
• Once we opt you in, you can opt out at anytime

What we WON’T DO:

• We WON’T send reminders about when worship is (we assume you know that!)
• We WON’T remind you of communion days (we assume you know that, too!)
• We WON’T send reminders about when Pantry days occur
• We WON’T text you outside of 8am to 9pm
• We WON’T clutter your message inbox with irrelevant messages
• We WON’T disrespect your message inbox

What we WILL DO:

• Above all we give you our promise that we WILL respect your message inbox!
• We WILL only send relevant, church related, time sensitive messages such as weather alerts that might cause cancellations or reminders of important events about to happen

We hope everyone’s had a chance to download the Instant Church Directory app on your phone or signed up on your desktop to view the directory on your computer! If not, please let us know when we can be of assistance to help you.

If you’re already set up, now we’d like you to take a few minutes and swap out the placeholder image that’s in your profile for an actual picture of yourself or your family.

• On the app, select the Menu in the upper left hand corner
• Select Edit My Family
• Choose an image from your phone

And, that’s it!

If the image isn’t perfectly centered don’t worry, once your changes are submitted we’ll go into the directory and make sure the image is centered perfectly. And, if you’d rather we take care of inserting the image for you, simply email it to communications@firstpresgreenbay.org and we’ll get it taken care of.

For step by step instructions on how to change the picture from the website visit https://help.instantchurchdirectory.com/article/638-navigating-the-online-member-directory

And just a reminder, if you’re not set up with the mobile app yet you can download the app to your Apple device at https://bit.ly/3ZsoR2w.

To download the app to your Android device visit https://bit.ly/3Gwr2JN.

And, from your computer visit https://members.instantchurchdirectory.com/.

We hope to see your picture in the directory soon!