Churches use Clearstream every week to gather prayer requests from their members via text message. We regularly hear that teams receive more responses from their members via text than with any other method, like email or social media.
Here are two ideas for how to get prayer requests:
Ask your people how you can be praying. Send out a mass text each week asking your members how you can be praying for them. All incoming responses are sent to your inbox in Clearstream, where you and your team can respond to them individually.
Invite people to text their prayer requests. Welcome your people to "Text your prayer requests to 202-342-2519" in your bulletin, on-screen, or during announcements. Then, when people text their responses during the week, your team can follow up with them from the inbox.
You can also set up an auto-response for when someone texts in their prayer request. It could be something like, "Thanks for sending in your prayer request. Our team will be praying this week!"
Things to note
You can set up a subaccount specifically for your prayer team to handle prayer requests.
You can create a keyword workflow where your people can text a keyword (Text PRAYER to 202-342-2519) to submit their prayer requests. You can set it to automatically add people to your prayer list (or send them to your prayer subaccount), so your prayer team can follow up with them later.
Enable email/push notifications to be notified of incoming texts.
If you have any questions or need help setting anything up, our team is happy to help! Just reach out to us in the chat. 😊