"… The Church can and must use these media

to promote community and parish life, spiritual growth, the proclamation of the Gospel, and

Church participation in the life of our nation.”

PASTORAL PLAN

FOR CHURCH COMMUNICATION
United States Catholic Conference

Benefits for your parish and your ministry

People that use our website technology love it because it is so easy-to-learn and easy-to-use. It allows users - staff and volunteers (even non-technical users) - to make updates in only minutes and delivers the professional looking results they want. We've successfully taken the pain and frustration out of parish website management.

In addition, Transfigured provides parishes and schools with value-added benefits that include ongoing support and online resources to help keep content and communications fresh and relevant. Staff and volunteer have access to a team dedicated to their online success.

Catholic churches and parishes, schools and dioceses that use our technology solutions will recognize significant cost-savings and time-saving benefits. Our solutions help you:

• Save money by reducing printing, postage, mailing of parishioner information

• Easily promote and communicate your sense of parish identity and mission, while supporting parish pride and ownership

• Publish Catholic news and information ...from the Vatican and your diocese to your parish and people

• Our members-only resource gives you access to free Catholic content from our Transfigured Network

• Meet your parishioners' increasing demand for receiving information in their "inbox" via e-mail

• Keep parishioners updated on parish events and current Catholic topics 

Practice Good Stewardship:

• Reduce demand for paper copies of bulletins and ministry calendars

• Conserve resources by reducing printing and postage costs

• Gather essential parishioner data online with unlimited custom forms

Foster Meaningful Relationships:

• Communicate very frequently with parishioners

• Create a great "first impression" of the parish and school for visitors

• Support building a strong parish and school brand and provide your school with a powerful and easy-to-manage marketing tool

• Update parishioners on parish events and current Catholic topics quickly and in real time

• Promote parish events and fundraisers

• Maximize virtual and real-time “facetime” with Staff and ministries

• Provide parishioners online calendars for all parish, liturgical responsibilities and school events

• Inform absent and vacationing parish members of parish events and happenings

• Link former parish members and inactive parishioners to your parish community

• Target “niche” groups in the parish for directed mailings

• Recruit volunteers quickly and easily

• Engage your parish youth and young adults online in creative and effective ways

• Connect with other Catholic groups through chatrooms and blogs

Promote Instruction and Evangelization:

• Create online faith formation curricula and study guides

• Encourage recruitment and support conversions

• Access our members-only resource for free Catholic content pages from our Transfigured Network which you can publish on your site, in e-newsletters, and use for study

• Link to Catholic Sources like the Vatican website, USCCB, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, The New American Bible, Concordances, Lives of Saints, and Catholic Media

• Satisfy the spiritual curiosity of Catholics, non-Catholics and your friends with strong Catholic Content

Support & Partnership:

• Assist parish clusters or parishes that want to distribute website management and maintenance functions to multiple individuals or a website team

• Collaborate efficiently among parishes, schools and clustered parishes

• Encourage inter-parish and diocesan dialogues

• Train with online tutorials and help-desk supports which are available by e-mail and phone

There's so much more...