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Email your whole church without the Mailchimp headache.

Mailchimp was built for online stores, not churches. Here's church email that already knows who your people are, with delivery you can see.

Plenty of churches run their email through a tool built for online stores. It works, sort of. You export a list from one place, import it into another, guess at who should get what, and hope it doesn't bounce. Church email shouldn't be a data-entry project. It should already know who your people are.

Your list is already here

WayHouse sends from the same member database you already keep. No exports, no imports, no list that drifts out of date the moment you build it. Email a group, a ministry, or the whole church, and it reaches the right people because it's the same people.

The WayHouse Engage composer, with audience, subject, and rich-text body fields for a Sunday recap broadcast.
The Engage composer: pick an audience, write, send.

Send to the right people, not everyone

Blasting everything to everyone is how people learn to ignore church email. Target by tag, by lifecycle stage, or by a saved audience, so the youth parents get the youth note and the whole church gets the whole-church note. Relevance is what keeps people opening.

See what actually landed

You can see opens, clicks, and bounces, so you know a message arrived, and you can spot the address that's been quietly failing for months. It's the difference between hoping your email works and knowing it did.

Set the recurring ones and forget them

The weekly newsletter and the welcome note don't need you every time. Schedule the recurring sends and let workflows handle the follow-ups, so the routine email runs itself.

Church email shouldn't be a data-entry project. It should already know who your people are.

This is Engage, WayHouse's communication hub, and email is included on every plan, the free one included. If you're already on WayHouse, your list is ready. No export required.

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Try WayHouse for your church.

Free under 100 members. Setup takes about five minutes, with no credit card needed. Want to talk it through first? We're glad to help.