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Announcement email
Email groups from Churchism. Set the From address, send a test, then turn sending on. No SMS.
/communications/communications/compose/settings?panel=comms
Communications sends congregation email from Churchism. There is no SMS.
Finish announcement email in Settings before anyone can send:
1. Add your church street and city (Settings → Church details). They appear in the footer.
2. Confirm the sender (Settings → Announcement email). From defaults to your church slug on mail.churchism.app. Set Reply-To to the church office. You do not need your own DNS. From cannot be the same address Churchism uses for password resets and invites.
3. Compose a short announcement and send a test to yourself. Check inbox and spam.
4. Enable announcement sending. This lets staff email groups. It does not send anything by itself.
Demo churches cannot send announcements.
When you send for real:
- Pick a group or the congregation.
- Kids, utility, archived, and deceased stay off the list unless they opted in.
- Churchism warns if the list is over 500 and blocks over 2,000 in one send.
- Each recipient is a separate To. Churchism does not BCC the church.
- Unsubscribe is church-scoped and applies to announcements only. It does not cancel invites, serving mail, or password resets.
Drafts, groups, and the send log live under Communications. You need communications:read to see it, communications:write to draft, and communications:send to send. Pastor and admin have these at seed.
If sending is off, the compose page explains which setup step is left.