The Open Hof in Scherpenzeel and the CGK in Amersfoort were the first two Christian Reformed Churches to opt for an app via Donkey Mobile. The power of our own app on our platform lies in the fact that various functionalities are combined. One home for the congregation on the smartphone. Across the full breadth of theChristian Reformed Church
churches choose their own app on the Donkey Mobile platform. They see mutual involvement grow, collection income increase and communication improve.
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"The Donkey Mobile app helps us to be a community in new ways outside of Sunday services and to stay in touch. The app works very well and you can tell that the app was made by professionals!"
Of all the groups within the church app of the Municipality of Bunde Meerssen: Voice of the Good Shepherd, the Farsi-speaking group is the most active. We spoke about it with Petra Boone, administrator of the municipal church app.
Interviewee:Petra Boone
App manager,CGK Bunde Meerssen
Our congregation has grown enormously in the past five years: from fifty to about one hundred and fifty members. Our Alpha courses are popular and due to the various asylum seekers' centres in the area, we also have many Farsi-speaking members. We were looking for a way to keep in touch with each other. A WhatsApp message is fun with thirty people, but with one hundred and fifty it becomes complicated. In addition, there was the need to move with the times. You can have your own opinion about it, but it is no longer the case that everyone comes to church every Sunday and receives the announcements from the church council. Congregation members are sometimes there and sometimes not for various reasons. The app is a good tool to communicate with each other and to empathise with each other. That is enormously valuable.
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