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Christmastime is one of the most important seasons on the Church calendar. Theologically, it represents one of the fundamental moments in Christian history—when Christ was born. Its historical and spiritual significance continues to resonate today as billions of people around the world celebrate Christmas each year.
Christmas is also one of the busiest seasons for traffic to your church’s website, app, giving pages, and in-person visits. It’s vital to be prepared to welcome visitors, efficiently capture their information, receive year-end gifts, and reach people online during one of the most-attended seasons of the year at church.
Your church app is the premier space to accomplish all of this and more! As you manage your church communications this year with excellence and creativity, utilize your app to increase church engagement, in-person attendance, and long-term impact.
Here are twelve ways your church app can reach, inspire, and connect people this Christmas!
Christmas brings a ton of communications—texts from family, emails about sales, messages from friends, and much more. How can your church ensure your important messages are seen and heard?
Push notifications are a simple way to directly reach people during the busy holiday season. They’re great for sharing important updates, encouraging participation, and spreading holiday cheer in real time. Users opt to turn push notifications on or off—which is why you want your messages to be timely, relevant, and effective!
This Christmas season, use push notifications in a variety of ways and customize them to your church’s needs, events, brand, and tone. Here are a few ideas:
Subsplash offers free push notification templates in our brand-new Christmas Graphics Templates Kit! Feel free to copy, customize, and schedule these messages right from your Subsplash Dashboard to keep your community informed and inspired all throughout the holiday season.
Whether people use QR codes or Subsplash Tap to download your church app, once inside they can effortlessly fill out a digital connection card! Your church can use the Subsplash Forms feature to create digital connect cards that automatically sync with your people database. That means when people fill out a connection card on your app, they’ll automatically be entered into your people database.
Connect cards are one of the most vital parts of your service. With so many new faces walking through your doors this holiday season, especially during this surge of interest in Christianity among younger generations, now is the time to utilize digital connection cards—something tech-savvy members will no doubt appreciate.
The calendar inside your church app is one of your most important hubs of communication during the holiday season. Your congregants will check it often for accurate information, events, and opportunities.
That’s why it’s so important you update your church calendar to align with your holiday season. Ensure it’s up-to-date, accurate, clear, and exciting. Link to events pages from your church calendar so that members and visitors can easily find the events they’re looking for.
Live streaming your services is important all year long, but this is especially true during the holidays. Make sure your Christmas services are available directly in your church app!
Many people travel or stay home for the holidays, and streaming gives them an opportunity to stay connected to your church community wherever they are. It’s also a powerful way to reach many new visitors, as well as share the Gospel with those who are far from Christ and need the Good News during one of the most spiritual times of the year.
With Subsplash Live, your congregation can easily experience all of your Advent services, as well as your Christmas Eve services—from Christmas worship to the message—right from their phones or tables.
When the calendar year comes to a close, generosity often reaches its peak—making it a vital opportunity to strengthen financial health, deepen member engagement, and fuel next year’s ministry goals. In fact, December is consistently the highest giving month for churches, typically bringing in twice the donations of a typical month!
Many people give year-end, tax-deductible gifts in December, so you'll want to be sure to make it as easy as possible for them to give securely through your church app. In-app giving allows users to donate in just a few taps, whether during your Christmas services, while watching a livestream, or anytime throughout the week.
Your Christmas events wouldn’t be possible without the incredible volunteers who serve behind the scenes, including greeters, kids’ ministry teams, tech and audio, your parking lot crew, and more! Simplify your volunteer coordination by using your church app for volunteer sign-ups and scheduling.
Through your church app, volunteers can register, accept or decline shifts, and receive push notification reminders. Keeping everything digital ensures no one slips through the cracks during one of the busiest but most important times of the year when it’s important to make a great first impression on first-time visitors.
Managing ministry is a lot—but it doesn’t have to be hard. Through Subsplash, you can easily manage volunteer scheduling for your Christmas events and services, and during the Advent season.
Help your community to stay rooted in God’s Word–as well as your church community–during the hustle and bustle of Christmas! With the built-in Bible feature, you can offer a special Christmas reading plan or Advent devotional series right in your app.
Whether it’s a weeklong Advent reflection, a “12 Days of Christmas” devotional, or a guided study through the birth narratives in Luke and Matthew, your members can read Scripture, take notes, and grow spiritually together. You can even align their in-app reading plans with your Advent sermon series!
Turn your church calendar into a Christmas Advent calendar! Make the season interactive with a digital Advent calendar by posting daily Scriptures, reflection videos, prayers, or family challenges that help your congregation prepare their hearts for Christ’s birth.
Each day’s post can provide a media item, push notification, and word of encouragement. This is a simple yet powerful way to keep people connected and spiritually focused throughout December.
Did you know you can provide your congregation with digital Christmas invitations? Help your members invite others with ease by sharing digital Christmas invitations right in your church app! With Subsplash’s media and graphics features, you can upload shareable content—like invite images, social media posts, or event promo videos—that users can text or post directly to their networks.
Encourage your community to spread the word about your Christmas Eve services, concerts, or outreach events. A single share could be the reason someone hears the gospel this Christmas!
BONUS: As a gift to church leaders like you, the new 2025 Subsplash Christmas Graphics Templates Kit includes Christmas service invites, as well as push notification templates.
The Christmas season is notoriously one of the busiest seasons for parents! It’s important to offer them ways to help their kids understand the true meaning of Christmas. Your church app can be the perfect hub for family discipleship resources—like downloadable activity sheets, craft ideas, or short devotionals written for kids.
However you approach it, make your church app a place where families can easily stay up-to-date, informed, and discipled all Christmas long at your church.
Christmas is a powerful time to highlight generosity and kingdom impact. If you’re looking to boost your year-end giving, you can launch a designated fundraiser such as a “Christmas Offering” campaign in your app that supports local outreach, global missions, community needs, or a specific need at your church that you’re fundraising for.
Include a heartfelt video from your pastor explaining the vision, then make it simple for members to tithe through in-app giving. Track progress toward your goal and celebrate the impact during your services.
From live streaming services and increasing generosity, to volunteer registration and scheduling, your church app makes it possible to manage all your Christmas activities in one place. With everything connected, you’ll spend less time juggling systems and more time focusing on people.
Simplify your communication, streamline your holiday planning, and create a seamless experience for every visitor this Christmas—multipling your Kingdom impact. Your church app truly is the all-in-one hub for connection, engagement, and ministry growth.
There can be no doubt that Christmas is one of the most important and exciting times of the year at church.
Your church app can benefit your church this Christmas in so many ways! You can utilize it to grow your audience, engage your congregants, share important information, and manage everything from one place.
After all, the very heart of Christmas is God making Himself accessible to us—Immanuel, “God with us” (Matthew 1:23). And through thoughtful, gospel-centered technology, we have the opportunity to reflect that same nearness by meeting people right where they are and guiding them toward the hope of Christ during one of the most important times of the year.
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