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Why Flat Rate Pricing Is Great For Catholic Parishes

The mission of flat rate pricing

The underlying mission of Evangelus is to help your Catholic parish grow and thrive. This is why we set out to create a communication tool that is easy to use, powerfully Catholic, and at a price point that gives every parish the potential to be successful. It’s this last part that we address with flat-rate pricing.

Much of the costs centered around messaging is connected to the volume of emails, texts and push notifications that you send. This is why other companies charge you more money the more messages you send or members you have.

To us, this directly underminds what we need to do as evangelists for Christ. We need to communicate regularly and reach as many people as we can with our life-changing message of hope and salvation.

The potential of your parish outreach should not be held back by your budget. Your parish should not have to pay more to share the Good News with more people.

It was mission critical for us to solve this problem and we did.

PERFECT FOR EVERY SIZE PARISH

We think of communication differently. The value of Evangelus is not solely tied to the number of messages that you send. Because Evangelus is more than that.

We understand your parish is dealing with bigger issues. Most parish offices are understaffed and don’t have the resources to effectively communicate across email, mobile, text, web and social.  Consequently, we see parishes select just one or two of these channels and call it good. They are trying to do the best they can with what options they have.

All parishes, regardless of size, benefit from posting to all these locations from one place, with one login, from one message. You no longer have to spend extra time to log in one place to send an email, another to send a push notification, then login into Facebook or Twitter to copy/paste the same message. Evangelus saves one high-valued resource in the parish office; time.

BE SUCCESSFUL

So, go ahead, put your entire member list in Evangelus and send messages to everyone, everywhere! We have you covered.

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Bulletins Under Cover

Helping churches create effective and visually-pleasing bulletins is the heart of our business. With talented graphic designers/artists in all five of our offices, offering beautiful cover art is a large part of what we do. The design team includes Kari DeBoer, Linda Simon and Jennifer Rutherford in Michigan; Adriana Moralic, Diane Vaughn and Armando Esparza in Texas; Brandon Williams in Florida; Mary Shows, Molly May and Tom Berryhill in Ohio; and Maggie Fawley in Pennsylvania.

“Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization,” according to Bishop Robert Barron of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. While there are many technical parts of putting together a bulletin, having a beautifully designed cover is an important part of our work and the work of the Catholic Church. Imagine that bulletin on a family refrigerator: the cover acts as a “teachable moment” every time a person sees it. It’s a constant reminder of the beauty and truth of the Catholic faith.

Our Artists Were Busy!

In 2016, our artists created over 800 free bulletin covers for our customers to download. For the canonization of Mother Teresa in September of 2016, that team created 8 bulletin covers alone. That means the parishes we serve have a wonderful variety of art to choose from, according to their needs and aesthetic. Many of these designs are also used for our banners, prayer cards, and other products. Keep in mind, too, that we offer many of our products in both English and Spanish versions.

Of course, our graphic design team does much more than just bulletin covers. However, the fact that this team of talented people created more than 800  pieces of art for our bulletin customers in 2016 is remarkable, and it sets a high standard not only for this team, but for us as a company.