Retire the email blast. Reach every pocket.
One announcement, pushed straight to the lock screen — of the whole congregation, of a single group, or of just the 150 people on the bus. Written from the admin portal or from a phone in the pew. No mailing list, no spam folder, no “did you see my email?”
One announcement. Exactly the right people. Zero emails.
Public goes to everyone. Private goes to the Youth Group and nobody's grandmother. Participants-only goes to the people actually on the Niagara trip. Each lands as a push notification — the channel people actually see.
Email reaches the people who still check email. Push reaches everyone.
The parish email list is half stale addresses and half spam folders — and the newsletter platform charges you by the subscriber. ChurchPlan announcements ride the channel every generation actually looks at: the notification on their own phone.
Every announcement is posted. You choose which ones interrupt.
Publishing and pushing are two separate decisions. Every announcement lands in the Announcements screen either way — that is the complete record, and nothing is ever missed. A push does two more things: it lights up the lock screen, and it files itself in the Notifications Center.
It waits to be found.
No banner, no sound, no badge. The announcement sits in the Announcements screen with all the others, ready the next time they look.
It finds them.
A banner on the lock screen the moment you publish. Kept for the announcements where the timing is the message.
The push log.
Only announcements you pushed appear here — a running record of every time your church chose to interrupt someone.
Your announcement list records whether a push was sent, so you can see at a glance which announcements interrupted people and which didn't — and keep the interruptions rare enough that they still work.
Not fire-and-forget. Fire, measure, and curate.
Every announcement in one list — who it went to, whether the push was sent, what it's attached to, when it retires itself, and how many people actually read it.
Read counts, not guesses. Easter Sunday: 192 reads. Lent Fasting Guide: 210. You know what landed — and what needs a second push.
Drag to reorder the feed. The building fund stays on top this month because you put it there — not because an algorithm liked it.
Attached to real activity. Announcements link to their event, campaign, or meeting — “Niagara Falls · Easter Event” — so context travels with the message.
They retire themselves. Every announcement carries an expiry date. Nothing from last Lent haunts this year's feed.
Written anywhere
The youth leader publishes to “Chapel Group +2” from a phone between services. The office publishes parish-wide from the portal. Same announcement system, same push.
Audience, dialed in
Whole congregation, one ministry, a private group, the diocese, or only an activity's participants. Nobody gets pinged about a trip they're not on.
Push today, ready for tomorrow
Built on the notification rails phones already have — the channel that replaced email for everything else in your members' lives — and the foundation for whatever comes next.
A feed worth following — across the diocese.
Announcements aren't emails to delete; they're a feed members scroll on purpose — from their parish and every church they follow.
Exclusive — special badges mark the announcements meant just for a member's groups.
Diocese — the bishop's message reaches every parish's feed at once, clearly marked.
Following — members who follow a sister parish see its news too. Word travels the way the diocese actually works.
Rich cards — a photo, a headline, the church's face, and how long ago — not a wall of forwarded text.
Send the last “please check your email.”
Write it once, pick who it's for, and watch the read count climb — from the whole congregation to the fifteen kids in the chapel group.