Communication & OutreachPurpose
1. Automate scheduling, publication, and syncing of sermons, events, devotional messages, and church announcements across social media to ensure timely outreach, maximize engagement, and maintain consistent communication with Apostolic church audiences.
2. Centralize content management for pastors, media teams, and church administrators, reducing manual effort while increasing visibility and real-time relevance of church updates.
3. Support multi-channel, language-specific, and time-zone-optimized posting for a worldwide apostolic fellowship.
Trigger Conditions
1. New sermon, blog, event, or announcement created in church CMS or events calendar.
2. Specific date/time reached per content calendar.
3. Approval status set to “ready for posting” by church admin/media team.
4. API/webhook call from mobile church app or website backend.
5. Receipt of file (image/video/text) in shared folder or through email.
Platform Variants
1. Facebook Pages
- Feature: Schedule Post API (graph.facebook.com/v13.0/{page-id}/feed)
- Setting: Message, scheduled_publish_time, attached_media
2. Instagram
- Feature: Content Publishing API, Instagram Graph API
- Setting: image_url, caption, scheduled_publish_time
3. Twitter/X
- Feature: POST statuses/update endpoint
- Setting: status, media_ids
4. LinkedIn
- Feature: Share API (ugcPosts)
- Setting: author, lifecycleState (PUBLISHED), scheduledAt
5. YouTube
- Feature: Videos.insert with "status.scheduled"
- Setting: snippet.title, snippet.description, status.publishAt
6. TikTok
- Feature: Content Publishing API
- Setting: video upload, scheduled publications (partner solution access)
7. Pinterest
- Feature: v5 Pins API
- Setting: board_id, media_source, title, description
8. WhatsApp Business
- Feature: Cloud API - Send Message
- Setting: recipient_id, message_type, schedule_time
9. Telegram
- Feature: Bot API - sendMessage/sendPhoto
- Setting: chat_id, text, media, schedule
10. Slack
- Feature: chat.scheduleMessage
- Setting: channel, text, post_at
11. Buffer
- Feature: Buffer API - create_update
- Setting: text, media, scheduled_at
12. Hootsuite
- Feature: Hootsuite Platform API - Schedule Post
- Setting: socialProfileIds, message, scheduledSendTime
13. Google My Business
- Feature: Google My Business API - createLocalPost
- Setting: location_id, summary, media, event
14. Mailchimp
- Feature: Campaigns API - schedule
- Setting: campaign_id, schedule_time
15. Medium
- Feature: POST /users/{userId}/posts
- Setting: title, content, publishStatus, publishAt
16. Tumblr
- Feature: /v2/blog/{blog-identifier}/post
- Setting: body, tags, state (queue)
17. WordPress.com
- Feature: REST API - posts
- Setting: title, content, status (future), date
18. Reddit
- Feature: API - /api/submit with "sendreplies"
- Setting: subreddit, title, text, sendreplies, scheduled_time
19. VK
- Feature: wall.post
- Setting: owner_id, message, attachments, publish_date
20. Zapier Webhooks
- Feature: Catch Hook, Webhooks by Zapier
- Setting: triggers to kick off downstream scheduling actions on social platforms
Benefits
1. Maintains consistent church branding with uniform posts across platforms.
2. Reduces time and manual effort for church staff and volunteers.
3. Increases timely outreach, boosting attendance and participation.
4. Ensures message reaches global audiences in their preferred time zones.
5. Enables easy tracking of engagement and refinements for future communications.
6. Reduces risk of missed or outdated event promotion.
7. Adapts rapidly to urgent announcements or prayer requests.
8. Supports growth in digital evangelism and remote ministry.