I’ve also just set up a Church phone email address, and have submitted that for an invite. Your suggestion for using it as a main phone number may be a perfect solution for us.

We’ve been looking into the purchase of a new phone system, and they are so very expensive. It seemed to me that there should be someway to just use our church cell phones instead of a traditional desk phone which goes unused for the most part.

This may be the solution, or the beginnings of one.

Thank you for the fantastic post! We’re on it!

Are you using the free version or one of the pro versions?

Let’s move this conversation to the forum. Others might want to chime in. See the link to the forum entry at the bottom of the post.

If Google Voice is able to send 1 SMS message to a large list of people, it still (likely) does not have the opt-in/out features that Textmarks has.

Thanks for stopping by. I’m not familiar with Textmate. I did some searching and wasn’t sure if I found the right product or not. Do you have a link?

You could probably set GVoice up for alerts, but that wasn’t the original design intent – IMO. It’s more set up for two-way communications.

If you can find a link, post it and I’ll look into it deeper.