IF YOU USE EMAIL OR TEXTING, WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!

We have found through the quarantine that there are EVEN BETTER ways to communicate to you!  At the beginning of the quarantine we found that when sending bulk emails:

• many emails would bounce back because the address was invalid
• the user was not accepting bulk email and rejected it as spam
• We have multiple emails for one person and ideally would like one per person/family
• our email database was not complete
• some people would prefer texts 

While there is no perfect solution to this issue, we have found that a church program called  Flocknotes can help.  We have imported all of your emails into our parish flocknotes site.  

If you have NOT been receiving emails from us during quarantine, OR if you want to be sure our parish Flocknote site has your correct email (one email per person please), OR if you would rather receive important updates via text, please submit that information through one of the following ways:  
Otherwise, you  don’t need to do anything differently than you have been doing all along.  You still send your emails to our email addresses, as always. You don’t need to download a flocknotes app, because all communication will be sent to you via email or text, and you will have the option to ‘reply back’ to the staff sender from your email/phone.  

We will use  Flocknotes for bulk communications.  This would typically mean a few times a month.  If you decide to sign up for text messages, you can save the phone number the texts come from as OLQPSTM, so you know it’s from us.  If you reply to a text, it goes only to the staff sender, so it’s private. If at any time, you don’t want to receive texts, you can reply STOP to one of the text messages we send.

For further information, please contact:  Meghan Robinson at  meghan.robinson@dor.org or 244-3010 X 107.  

Thank you for your help with this!  It will help us to communicate better.