Blasts for churches and ministries
Build a direct Blasts connection with members for announcements, events, volunteer needs and the moments when reaching everyone matters. Messages appear directly on members' screens, clearly identified as coming from your church.
Built on Blasts. Members approve the connection, messages are encrypted, credits never expire, no subscription.
Church communication rarely fails loudly. It fails when a family shows up for a service that moved, or never hears about the thing you announced three times.
The women's retreat was in the bulletin, on the slide loop and in the Thursday email. Registration still closed with half the spots empty, and the first question at the door on Sunday was, "Wait, when is the retreat?"
The parking lot iced over at 6 a.m. Someone posted on Facebook, someone else started a text chain, and the ushers called who they could. A family with a newborn still drove in from twenty minutes out.
Two volunteers called out Saturday night. The coordinator emailed the whole team, then texted the four numbers she had, then covered the room herself. There were fifteen trained volunteers who would have said yes.
There's another way
Blasts is built around persistent connections between people who already know each other. A member connects with the church once. From then on, the church has a direct, encrypted channel that shows each message on the member's phone or desktop screen, with the sender's name and photo and a badge that says whether it is an Event, an FYI, or an Emergency.
A church has something better than a database: dozens of moments each year when a member hands the church their attention on purpose. That is where the connection happens.
The welcome card, the membership class, the small group signup and the VBS registration are the moments a member already says yes. Put the invitation there, and read it out before the benediction.
The member accepts and the church approves. One connection, made once, on the phone or computer they already use.
Announcements, event reminders, volunteer needs and weather closures land on the screen, to the whole congregation or just the nursery team.
Every family, every Sunday, without hunting for your message.
Members always keep the ability to mute or silently disconnect, and the church approves each connection, so it stays a members channel.
Not everything belongs on the screen. The bulletin still has a job. These messages are the ones a family should not have to go looking for.
Service cancelled, service moved online, second service combined with first. Sent as an Emergency Blast that pulses red and pins to the top of every connected member's screen.
Retreats, VBS, marriage conference, Christmas Eve service times. Sent as an Event Blast with a countdown and a calendar attachment so it lands on the family calendar, not just in memory.
Nursery, greeters, worship team, parking, tech booth. A distribution list per team, one Blast, a poll to say "I can cover it," and the coordinator sees who replied.
A hospitalization, a birth, a loss in the church family. A short Blast to the care team or the whole congregation, with a self-destruct timer if the family prefers it not linger.
A two-minute voice Blast on Tuesday about Sunday's message, or a thank-you after a big giving Sunday. Recorded in the browser, auto-transcribed for the members who prefer to read.
Parents of the youth group get pickup-time changes, camp packing lists and permission reminders on a list that only they are on, from a leader they already know.
Churches typically run communication on volunteer time and a small budget. Email is inexpensive, but important messages still compete with everything else in the inbox. Church texting services charge monthly and per message. Group texts are easy to mute. Blasts is built for an organization that already knows exactly who it is trying to reach.
Blasts credits are bought once and never expire. One typed Blast to one member is one credit; a voice Blast is two. A church that sends a weekly announcement to 300 connected members uses about 15,600 credits a year, and there is no subscription running in the background.
The message appears on the member's screen with the sender's name and photo. Acknowledged and replied counts show who actually saw it, which is the answer the office actually needs on Saturday night.
Every member chose to connect and can leave silently. Quiet hours and Do Not Disturb are theirs to set. A channel people trust is a channel they keep on.
One invitation your members already see, a few lists by ministry, and the same message types the office already uses: announcements, events, polls, a voice note. Nothing that needs a communications degree.
| SMS | Blasts | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reaches members who don't read church email | Depends on whether the person opens email | Yes, if you have consented mobile numbers | Delivered to the connected person's phone or desktop screen |
| Ongoing cost | Low, but low attention | Monthly plan plus per-message carrier fees | Prepaid credits, one per typed Blast, never expire |
| Confirms who actually saw it | Open-tracking pixels only | Delivery only | Acknowledged and replied counts from confirmed actions |
| Member must connect first | No | Consent required | Yes, by design; the member approves the church |
| Message types | Text and attachments | Short text, links | Rich text, voice notes, events with calendar attachment, polls, payment links |
Comparison reflects published Blasts.app product information as of August 2026 and general characteristics of email and SMS services. A cost model for your congregation size will be part of the rollout guide.
Blasts is not a way to message the whole zip code, and ChurchBlasts does not pretend otherwise. It is built for the people who have already walked through your doors, filled out a card, joined a group or registered a child. That constraint is exactly what makes the channel welcome on a member's phone.
For the person who will set it up
For the administrator or volunteer who will set ChurchBlasts up. Everything below reflects published Blasts documentation.
Blasts gives your church a 4-digit connection code and a personal invite link (blasts.app/connect/[ID]). Print the code on the welcome card, the class handout, the small group sign-up sheet and the VBS confirmation; put the link in emails and on the website. Anyone who enters the code is requesting to connect; the church approves.
For members who have already given the church an email address, upload that opted-in list and send personalized Blasts invitations through the church's own Gmail, Microsoft 365 or Amazon SES account. Each member accepts the invitation; that acceptance is the connection.
Most families connect on the iOS or Android app. Staff, elders and volunteers who work at a desk add the browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers, or use the web app at blasts.app.
Create lists for the whole congregation, youth parents, the worship team, nursery volunteers and each small group; there is no per-recipient cap and large lists can be staggered into daily waves. Send typed announcements, a voice Blast from the pastor, an Event Blast with a countdown and calendar attachment, or a poll. Emergency Blasts pulse red and pin to the top.
Roster invitations are described in Blasts documentation as part of the Chrome extension; confirm before relying on them from another device. Step-by-step administrator instructions will be in the ChurchBlasts rollout guide once confirmed against current Blasts documentation.
In one paragraph
ChurchBlasts is an implementation of Blasts for churches and ministries that want a direct, permission-based channel to their congregation. Members connect with the church once, usually at a moment they already give the church their attention such as a welcome card, membership class, small group or event registration, and from then on announcements, event reminders, volunteer needs and urgent updates appear on their phone or desktop screen instead of competing for attention in an inbox or a muted group text.
No. A person must connect with the church before any Blast is delivered, and Blasts is not built for messaging strangers or purchased lists. ChurchBlasts is for members, regular attenders, volunteers and families who have already said yes to hearing from you.
By putting the church's 4-digit connection code or personal invite link at the moments members already engage: the welcome card, membership class, small group sign-up, event and VBS registration, and from the pulpit. Members who have shared an email address can also be invited from an opted-in list with personalized invitations sent through the church's own Gmail, Microsoft 365 or Amazon SES account.
In every case the member accepts the connection and the church approves it. There is no bulk auto-enrollment for a congregation. Detailed steps will be in the ChurchBlasts rollout guide once confirmed against current Blasts documentation.
Blasts have no monthly plan and no per-message carrier fee, travel over encrypted tunnels rather than the phone network, show the sender's name and photo, and report acknowledged and replied counts from confirmed actions rather than open pixels. They require the member to have connected first, which SMS and email do not.
A typed Blast uses one credit per recipient, so 300 credits; a voice Blast from the pastor uses two per recipient, so 600. Credits are prepaid, never expire, and are available at reseller pricing through BlastCredits.com.
Yes. Distribution lists let you name a group once and reach every member of it at the same time, so each ministry can have its own list and the whole congregation can have another. Large lists can be staggered into daily waves.
Yes. Members can set quiet hours, toggle Do Not Disturb, mute the church for 24 hours, or disconnect entirely, and the church is not notified when they cut off a sender.
The iOS app, the Android app, browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Arc and other Chromium browsers, and the responsive web app at blasts.app.
No and no. Credits are one-time deposits with no monthly subscription requirement, and they never expire, which suits a church whose sending volume spikes around Christmas, Easter and VBS and quiets down in between.
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