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Reach Your Spanish Speaking Parishioners with Flocknote

Is your church texting yet? If not they should be! In addition to emails, text messaging is the most effective way to reach your Spanish-speaking parishioners who are less likely to have home or desktop internet access. Texts and emails are much more effective at reaching your members than an app, a paper bulletin, or social media. 

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Create groups and send quick texts with Flocknote

No more fiddling with bulky group texts from your cell phone. Create unlimited groups and send a text message from Flocknote within seconds. Additionally, you can schedule text messages to be sent at a future date and time, save them as a draft, duplicate past text messages, and even include links in your texts, too. Check it out on the Flocknote blog: 11 Ways to Use Church Texting to Transform Your Church

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Capture replies vis email and text

Reach everyone and capture replies in one place

Don’t have someone’s cell phone number and only have their email instead? Not a problem, Flocknote will take the text from your text message and place it in an email to them instead automatically! It’s church texting and email made easy! 🎉

Your members will be able to reply directly to the emails and text messages you send. No matter how your message was sent, Flocknote captures all of the replies in one place for you. 

Use Text-to-Join for easy registration!

With Flocknote’s handy Text-to-Join feature, your members can text a unique keyword of your choosing from their cell phones and we’ll save their phone number and connect them with one of your groups on the spot! Also, we’ll send them back a link to add details like their name and email, as well as walk them through connecting with other groups in your church. Pretty spiffy!

All plans include 1 FREE Text-to-Join keyword!

Text to Join through a keyword

Free Built-In Spanish Content

Discover stunning email and text templates in both Spanish and English – all available to your church for free in the Flocknote Library. Browse through a collection of complete series and programs curated by renowned partners like the USCCB, the National Eucharistic Revival, and many others. With just a few clicks, you can easily inspire and connect with your members.

Secure online & mobile giving made easy

Our secure payment-processing capabilities are included with all Flocknote plans so you can offer your members a safe and convenient way to give back to their church!

$0 Setup fees. $0 Monthly Fees. No contracts.

Mobile online giving examples

The best part? Your members don’t have to log in, create an account, or download anything to get your messages!

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Commonly Asked Questions

Yes, Flocknote’s note composers (both email and text) support most languages, including those that are heavy in symbols. As long as you can type it, you can send it. 

As it turns out, language is a complex thing and it’s hard (even for computers) to auto-translate well. For this reason, the English notes you write will need to be translated on your end to Spanish. We recommend selecting a bilingual person at your church or on staff who can translate the notes for you accurately. 

No, there is no need to set up two different networks for the same church, even if members speak different languages. 

  • For short and important messages, you can always include the English version at the top and the Spanish version right below it. 
  • For longer messages and for a more pleasant member experience, we recommend creating a specific group for the Spanish-speakers on the network. You may consider making a Spanish-speaking staff member/volunteer the Group Admin for this group so that they can be in charge of translating and sending out notes to that group. If you are short on time and staffing, it may not be necessary to translate everything  — simply focus on the most important messages and ensure those are sent in Spanish to be mindful and inclusive of these valued members. 

The process for joining is exactly the same as for English-speaking members, but Spanish-speaking members will want to text a different number202-765-3441. Using this number ensures some of the automated return prompts, links at the bottom of all notes, and general navigations on the site are in Spanish. This does not auto-translate the notes you write in English and you’ll need to do that manually. 

Please note: While all the English keywords will still work with this number, you can also set up a specific group for Spanish communication and assign a specific keyword for this group. This way, you capture all those members in one group to know who to send Spanish content to. For more info on the text-to-join process as a whole, check out the articles at the bottom of the page. 

This setting would change some of the automated return prompts, links at the bottom of all notes, and general navigations on the site to Spanish. This does not auto-translate the notes you write in English and you’ll need to do that manually. 

Spanish language setting on member profile in Flocknote

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